Accounting Dictionary

Payee

A payee is a person who presents a check to the bank and receives money.

If you fill in the name John Jones on a check, fill in the amount, say $100, and sign it, the bank will take $100 out of your account and give it to John Jones. We say John Jones is the Payee.

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