Revenue vs. Receipt — What's the Difference?

In accounting, revenue is the income or increase in net assets that an entity has from its normal activities (in the case of a business, usually from the sale of goods and services to customers). Commercial revenue may also be referred to as sales or as turnover.

A receipt (also known as a packing list, packing slip, packaging slip, (delivery) docket, shipping list, delivery list, bill of parcel, manifest or customer receipt) is a document acknowledging that a person has received money or property in payment following a sale or other transfer of goods or provision of a service. All receipts must have the date of purchase on them.

Income, especially when of an organization and of a substantial nature

The action of receiving something or the fact of its being received

The income of a government from all sources appropriated for the payment of the public expenses.

A recipe

Yield from property or investment; income.

Mark (a bill) as paid

All the income produced by a particular source.

The act of receiving

A governmental department set up to collect public funds.

The fact of being or having been received

The income returned by an investment.

Often receipts A quantity or amount received

The total income received from a given source.

A written acknowledgment that a specified article, sum of money, or shipment of merchandise has been received.

All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means.

A recipe.

(accounting) The total sales; turnover.

To mark (a bill) as having been paid.

(accounting) The net income from normal business operations; net sales.

To give or write a receipt for (money paid or goods or services delivered).

(figurative) A return; something paid back.

To give a receipt.

(intransitive) To generate revenue.

The act of receiving, or the fact of having been received.

(transitive) To supply with revenue.

(obsolete) The fact of having received a blow, injury etc.

That which returns, or comes back, from an investment; the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income.

(in the plural) A quantity or amount received; takings.

Hence, return; reward; as, a revenue of praise.

A written acknowledgment that a specified article or sum of money has been received.

The annual yield of taxes, excise, customs, duties, rents, etc., which a nation, state, or municipality collects and receives into the treasury for public use.

(A piece of) evidence, documentation, etc. to prove one's past actions, accomplishments, etc.

The entire amount of income before any deductions are made

(A piece of) evidence (e.g. documentation or screen captures) of past wrongdoing.

Government income due to taxation

(archaic in New England and rural US since end of 20th century, elsewhere since middle of 20th century) A recipe, instructions, prescription.

(obsolete) A receptacle.

(obsolete) A revenue office.

(obsolete) Reception, as an act of hospitality.

(obsolete) Capability of receiving; capacity.

(obsolete) A recess; a retired place.

To give or write a receipt (for something).

To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; to mark a bill as having been paid.

The act of receiving; reception.

Reception, as an act of hospitality.

Capability of receiving; capacity.

Place of receiving.

Hence, a recess; a retired place.

A formulary according to the directions of which things are to be taken or combined; a recipe; as, a receipt for making sponge cake.

A writing acknowledging the taking or receiving of goods delivered; an acknowledgment of money paid.

That which is received; that which comes in, in distinction from what is expended, paid out, sent away, and the like; - usually in the plural; as, the receipts amounted to a thousand dollars.

To give a receipt for; as, to receipt goods delivered by a sheriff.

To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; as, to receipt a bill.

To give a receipt, as for money paid.

The act of receiving

An acknowledgment (usually tangible) that payment has been made

Report the receipt of;

Mark or stamp as paid