receipts vs amount

receipts and amount both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
receipts	Yes	No	No	No
amount	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, amount is a hypernym of receipts; that is, amount is a word with a broader meaning than receipts:

Other hypernyms of receipts include amount of money, sum, sum of money.

receipts (noun)	amount (noun)
the entire amount of income before any deductions are made	how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
	the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion
	a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
	a quantity of money

receipts (verb)	amount (verb)
	to measure up to in kind or quality
	add up in number or quantity
	be tantamount or equivalent to