Transaction vs. Payment — What's the Difference?

An instance of buying or selling something

A payment is the voluntary tender of money or its equivalent or of things of value by one party (such as a person or company) to another in exchange for goods, or services provided by them, or to fulfill a legal obligation. The party making a payment is commonly called the payer, while the payee is the party receiving the payment.

Published reports of proceedings at the meetings of a learned society.

The act of paying or the state of being paid.

An input message to a computer system dealt with as a single unit of work

An amount paid

The act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.

One's due, reward, or punishment; requital.

Something transacted, especially a business agreement or exchange.

(uncountable) The act of paying.

Communication involving two or more people that affects all those involved; personal interaction

(countable) An instance of that act; a sum of money paid in exchange#Noun for goods or services, or the transaction#Noun that conveys it.

Transactions A record of business conducted at a meeting; proceedings.

The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation.

The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans).

That which is paid; the thing given in discharge of a debt, or an obligation, or in fulfillment of a promise; reward; recompense; requital; return.

A deal or business agreement. en

Punishment; chastisement.

An exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc.

A sum of money paid

(finance) The transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account.

The act of paying money

(computing) An atomic operation; a message, data modification, or other procedure that is guaranteed to perform completely or not at all (e.g. a database transaction).

(especially in plural) A record of the proceedings of a learned society.

(transactional analysis) A social interaction.

The doing or performing of any business; management of any affair; performance.

That which is done; an affair; as, the transactions on the exchange.

An adjustment of a dispute between parties by mutual agreement.

The act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities);