invoice

See also: in voice

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French envois pl, plural of envoi, from the verb envoyer (“to send”). See also envoy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪnˌvɔɪs/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

invoice (plural invoices)

1. A bill; a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer indicating the products, quantities and agreed prices for products or services that the seller has already provided the buyer with. An invoice indicates that, unless paid in advance, payment is due by the buyer to the seller, according to the agreed terms.
2. The lot or set of goods as shipped or received.

   The merchant receives a large invoice of goods.

   Synonym: shipment

3. (generally of a vehicle) The price which a seller or dealer pays the manufacturer for goods to be sold.

Related terms

• (price a seller pays): sticker price, list price

Translations

bill

• Albanian: faturë (sq) f
• Arabic: فَاتُورَة f (fātūra)
• Armenian: հաշիվ-ապրանքագիր (hy) (hašiv-aprankʻagir), հաշիվ (hy) (hašiv), ինվոյս (invoys)
• Belarusian: раху́нак-факту́ра m (raxúnak-faktúra), інво́йс m (invójs), факту́ра f (faktúra), раху́нак m (raxúnak)
• Bulgarian: факту́ра (bg) f (faktúra)
• Catalan: factura f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發票／发票 (zh) (fāpiào), 发票 (zh) (fāpiào), 發單／发单 (zh) (fādān), 发单 (zh) (fādān), 收費明細／收费明细 (shōufèi míngxì), 收费明细 (shōufèi míngxì), 費用清單／费用清单 (fèiyòng qīngdān), 费用清单 (fèiyong qīngdān), 收據／收据 (zh) (shōujù), 收据 (zh) (shōujù)

• Czech: faktura (cs) f
• Danish: regning (da) c
• Dutch: factuur (nl) f, rekening (nl) f
• Esperanto: fakturo (eo)
• Estonian: arve (et)
• Finnish: lasku (fi)
• French: facture (fr) f
• Galician: factura f
• Georgian: ინვოისი (invoisi)
• German: Rechnung (de) f, Faktura f
• Greek: τιμολόγιο (el) n (timológio), λογαριασμός (el) m (logariasmós)
• Hebrew: חֶשְׁבּוֹן (he) m (kheshbón)
• Hungarian: számla (hu)
• Ido: fakturo (io)
• Irish: sonrasc m
• Italian: fattura (it) f
• Japanese: 送り状 (おくりじょう, okurijō), インボイス (inboisu)
• Kazakh: есепшот фактура (esepşot faktura)
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• Korean: 송장 (songjang)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Latvian: rēķins m, fraktūra (lv) f
• Lithuanian: sąskaita faktūra f, faktūra f
• Malay: bil, invois, tagihan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: faktura (no) m

• Persian: فاکتور (fa) (fâktur)
• Polish: faktura (pl) f
• Portuguese: fatura (pt) f
• Romanian: factură (ro) f
• Russian: инво́йс (ru) m (invójs), счёт-факту́ра (ru) m (sčot-faktúra), накладна́я (ru) f (nakladnája) (also: consignment, bill of lading, waybill), счёт (ru) m (sčot), факту́ра (ru) f (faktúra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: факту́ра f

  Roman: faktúra (sh) f

• Slovak: faktúra f
• Slovene: faktura f
• Spanish: albarán (es) m, factura (es) f
• Swedish: faktura (sv) c, räkning (sv) c
• Turkish: fatura (tr)
• Ukrainian: раху́нок-факту́ра m (raxúnok-faktúra), інво́йс f (invójs), факту́ра f (faktúra), раху́нок m (raxúnok), накладна́ f (nakladná)
• Vietnamese: hóa đơn (vi) c
• Welsh: afoneb f

lot or set of goods

• Finnish: lähetys (fi)
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• Russian: па́ртия (ru) f (pártija), поста́вка (ru) f (postávka), груз (ru) m (gruz)

Verb

1. (transitive) To bill; to issue an invoice to.

   I will invoice my supplier tomorrow.

2. (transitive) To make an invoice for (goods or services).

Translations

to bill

• Bulgarian: фактурирам (fakturiram)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (to send bill) 寄送發票, 寄送发票 (jìsòng fāpiào), (to issue bill) 發貨單, 发货单 (fā huòdān), (to write up bill) 開發票, 开发票 (kāi fāpiào)

• Czech: fakturovat (cs)
• Danish: fakturere, sende en regning
• Dutch: factureren (nl), in rekening brengen
• Esperanto: fakturi
• Finnish: laskuttaa (fi)
• French: facturer (fr)
• Galician: facturar (gl) f
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• Ido: enfakturigar (io)
• Italian: fatturare (it)
• Portuguese: faturar (pt), cobrar (pt)
• Romanian: factura (ro)
• Russian: выставить счёт pf (vystavitʹ sčot)
• Spanish: facturar (es)
• Swedish: fakturera (sv)