confirm the receipt

Meaning

This phrase means to officially acknowledge that you have received something, such as an email, a document, a package, or a payment. It is a standard polite practice in professional communication to let the sender know their transmission was successful. It is highly common in formal and semi-formal email correspondence.

Examples

• Please confirm the receipt of this email by replying at your earliest convenience.

  Please confirm the receipt of this email by replying at your earliest convenience.

• I am writing to confirm the receipt of the signed contract you sent yesterday.

  I am writing to confirm the receipt of the signed contract you sent yesterday.

• The accounting department will confirm the receipt of your payment within 24 hours.

  The accounting department will confirm the receipt of your payment within 24 hours.

• Once you confirm the receipt of the design files, we can schedule the review meeting.

  Once you confirm the receipt of the design files, we can schedule the review meeting.

• We always ask our clients to confirm the receipt of sensitive documents for security reasons.

  We always ask our clients to confirm the receipt of sensitive documents for security reasons.

Common Mistakes

• ✗ Please confirm the recipe of my application.

  ✓ Please confirm the receipt of my application.

  'Recipe' refers to cooking instructions. 'Receipt' (pronounced with a silent 'p') is the noun for receiving something.

• ✗ I write to confirm receipt.

  ✓ I am writing to confirm receipt.

  Using 'I am writing' (present continuous) is much more natural in modern email correspondence than 'I write' (simple present).

Related Expressions

Practice

• Could you please reply to this message to ___ of the attached files?

  💡 Let us know you got the documents.

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  confirm the receipt

• We need to ___ of the shipment before we can process the invoice.

  💡 Verify that the package arrived.

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  confirm the receipt