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title: "Stop payment"
description: "Stop payment — An instruction to the bank not to honor an issued check, given by the account holder, usually for a fee. It is a bank instruction; the books are corrected separately by voiding the payment."
canonical: "https://lopifi.com/glossary/stop-payment"
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# Stop payment

> Stop payment — An instruction to the bank not to honor an issued check, given by the account holder, usually for a fee. It is a bank instruction; the books are corrected separately by voiding the payment.

Source: https://lopifi.com/glossary/stop-payment
Part of: Lopifi — Planned: US GAAP books on autopilot, checked by a CPA (https://lopifi.com)

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**What is stop payment?** In accounting, stop payment means an instruction to the bank not to honor an issued check, given by the account holder, usually for a fee. It is a bank instruction; the books are corrected separately by voiding the payment.

## Words this system refuses for it

- void (the entry in our books)
- cancel

- **Category:** Payables
- **Specified in:** [Lexicon](https://lopifi.com/md/docs/domain/lexicon)
- **Related:** account