payment order

Money movement instruction

A payment order is a formal instruction to a bank or financial institution to transfer funds from one account to another.

The term covers various mechanisms—wire transfers, checks, direct debits—where someone authorizes movement of money: The company issued a payment order for the supplier's invoice.

In legal contexts, a court may issue a payment order requiring one party to pay another.

banking

wire

Thin metallic conductor

  • EFTDigital account-to-account payment
  • SWIFTBank messaging infrastructure
  • chequeWritten bank payment order

direct deposit · debit · credit · clearinghouse · remittance · disbursement · funds · routing number · account number · batch processing

cross-border

remittance

Funds sent elsewhere

beneficiary · IBAN · BIC · Western Union · MoneyGram · exchange rate · conversion

execution

initiation

Formal admission ceremony

confirmation · clearance · finalization · reconciliation · fulfillment · discharge · completion · posting · cutoff time · batch

obligation

invoice

Itemized billing statement

arrears · indebtedness · commitment · installment · balance · outstanding · receivable · settlement · amortization · demand note

Opposites
direction of funds

payment orderinvoice

Itemized billing statement

receipt · bill · receivable · payment demand

instruction vs. execution

payment ordercash payment

Transaction using physical currency

settlement · disbursement · cash · remittance · fund transfer

order vs. request

payment orderinvoice

Itemized billing statement

bill · demand note · collection notice · accounts receivable · billing statement

Family

order, payment, paying, repayment, prepaid, payable, payer, payers, repaying

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