Receipt

A receipt is an acknowledgment of the receipt of a payment. It allows the debtor to prove that the corresponding requirement has been met. The term dates back to the obsolescent even. For non-cash payment the bank statement is the proof document.

Purchase

Germany

Under German law, the creditors ( § 368 German Civil Code) shall, at the request of the debtor, to issue a receipt after receiving a performance. However, the debtor has in principle to bear the cost of receipt ( § 369 BGB). The receipt is a private document, which according to § 416 ZPO provides the full proof that the statements contained therein have been issued by the exhibitor. Furthermore, according to § 440 para 2 CCP is ( refutable ) suggested that the standing above the signature of a receipt font is also real.

Minimum content of a receipt in addition to the confirmation of the service received, the date and signature, because the receipt is subject to the writing requirement of § 126, § 368 BGB. Where there is no such minimum components, the receipt is void, and will not serve its purpose ( § 125 BGB). The receipt can be used as an invoice, unless it meets the legal requirements of an invoice.

Frequently a receipt of payment will be issued in the form of a receipt. However, the receipt does not meet the above written form requirement. Alternatively, a receipt from be attached to the invoice. For this purpose, the date and signature of the adopter is the phrase " payment received " and necessary.

Handwritten receipts are often made ​​out on a receipt book, a book detachable receipt forms. Either a sheet of copy paper is inserted or the forms are self-copying, so that also gives rise to the payment document for the accounting of the receiver with the receipt. In this case, the payer receives the original and the receiver retains the most yellow copy for their records.

Special rules apply to donation receipts and hospitality receipts.

Austria

In Austria, there is a right to a receipt under § § 1426-1430 Civil Code.

Other meanings

In data transmission, the acknowledgment is the acknowledgment from the receiver for the correct transmission of a data packet from the sender.

In a figurative sense, it is an interpretation of a thing used as punishment ( " received a well-deserved acknowledgment" ).

Acknowledge The verb has " abandoned " the meanings (eg the service acknowledge) or " take note " (eg something acknowledged with a smile ).