# Receipt advice

# Introduction

Receipt advice or goods received note (GRN) is a record of goods received from suppliers, and the record is shown as a proof that ordered products had been received. The record is used by the buyer for comparing the number of goods ordered to the ones delivered.

Receipt advice is vital for various departments, primarily factory/store, procurement and finance/accounting departments. It is used for stock updates and the payment of goods obtained.

# Recommended formats

Below is a list of receipt advice formats recommended by us.

Note

All formats recommended by us are actively maintained, based on open standards, offer good supporting documentation and validation artefacts.

# UBL Receipt Advice 2.1

Universal Business Language (UBL) is an open library of standard electronic XML business documents for procurement and transportation such as purchase orders, invoices, transport logistics and waybills.

UBL was developed by an OASIS Technical Committee with participation from a variety of industry data standards organizations.

UBL is owned by OASIS and is currently available to all, with no royalty fees. The UBL library of business documents is a well-developed markup language with validators, authoring software, parsers and generators.

Specification

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/os-UBL-2.1/UBL-2.1.html#T-RECEIPT-ADVICE

# Customer specific formats

We can build support for any proprietary/closed source format you and your ERP system may require.

For more information, please see the proprietary or closed source formats section.