Recibo XXX S.A.

21:02 Jan 25, 2011 

In the end I went with my guts, and as thew were mostly debits to the account, with the occasional credit, I very simply put : payment to XXX (they were not all utility bills, though some were) Went down OK.

14:02 Jan 22, 2011 

Recibo is NORMALLY a receipt but not in this context. For example we say 'my electric co. me ha pasado el recibo de la luz". This really means sent me the bill. The confusion arises because they put on it 'recibi......' which DOES NOT MEAN that they have received the money. It is very confusing at first glance. You could put something like 'Request for payment' but it invariably means a bill, so just Electricity Bill or something. Invoice is not the right term because these things often do not comply with the formal requirements for an invoice as such in accounting terms. The more colloquial term 'bill' is what I use after pondering the matter over many years and I think it is fine.

13:19 Jan 22, 2011 

What's left of my reason tells me to use 'payment to', or just the name of the 'sociedad anónima' with the amount followed by D for debit. That's how it would be done in Argentina; my problem is that I receive nothing like this from UK banks or utilities, so I'm not familiar with the usual terms.

13:09 Jan 22, 2011 

Thanks, Neil. Here an invoice is called 'factura', whereas a 'recibo' is definitely for paymernt received, hence my confusion. However one could say that in this operation the utility (Telefónica in one case) receives the money. I use 'bill' all the time, but for some reason it sounds informal to me in this context. Could it be a USA/UK thing?

12:42 Jan 22, 2011 

6. Escrito o resguardo firmado en que se declara haber recibido dinero u otra cosa.
http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltGUIBusUsual?TIPO_HTML=2&TIPO...
RAE's own defiintion indicates that it can be a receipt OR an invoice. true, however Bill (Harrison not dinner bill ;@) ), that is usually used to mean 'bill'.