Invoice vs Challan - What's the difference?
invoice | challan |
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.
The lot or set of goods as shipped or received.
to bill; to issue an invoice
(South Asia) An official form or other kind of document, piece of paperwork, citation etc.
*2002 , Romen Basu, Breach of Faith :
*:Mathur sighed that things had come to such a pass that no honest businessman could get even a challan form without first handing out a few rupees.
*2010 , Auditing , Dr Ashok Sharma, New Delhi 2010, p. 92:
*:The stores department will issue a challan for each packing.
*2012 , The Times of India , 3 Jan 2012:
*:In past two years, Mohali police issued a paltry 17 challans to school bus operators for violations. Offences included speeding, rash driving and overloading.
As nouns the difference between invoice and challan
is that invoice is 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 while challan is an official form or other kind of document, piece of paperwork, citation etc.As a verb invoice
is to bill; to issue an invoice.invoice
English
(wikipedia invoice)Noun
(en noun)- The merchant receives a large invoice of goods.
