Check Blog

Announcing Check + Quickbooks Online

Stepping up our support for contractors through Check Onboard

Storing additional information in Check using metadata

Providing platform transparency using webhooks

If you know anything about running payroll, you know that it can be a complex and cumbersome process. Check's goal is to streamline and abstract as much of that complexity as possible, so our software platform partners can focus on the most important task: building a tailored front-end for their customers.

Further simplifying payroll through automatic paper check rendering

Announcing Check Express

Announcing earning codes

Employers running payroll often want the flexibility to customize labels for certain earnings, in such a way that will flow through to their employees’ paystubs. For example, imagine a restaurant that wants to pay employees for waiting tables and washing dishes...

Making document management easier with webhooks

Payroll requires a lot of complicated paperwork from both employers and the people they’re paying. A company needs to fill out multiple forms before it can start running payroll, every employee needs to provide withholding forms when they start, and then every quarter...

Introducing Console

Today we’re excited to launch Console, a centralized dashboard for managing payroll across all of your customers. When we first started out, we built Check as an API-only service. This decision let us focus on giving developers programmatic access...

API versioning

With any rapidly evolving API like Check’s, occasionally breaking changes need to be made. Up until now, we've dealt with this by closely coordinating with each of our Partners to ensure that they have made the necessary changes on their end before we release any breaking change...

2-day payroll processing

Today we're excited to announce support for 2-day processing on payrolls! Before, our system only supported a 4-day approval window, meaning that for paychecks to be sent out on a Friday, payroll had to be approved on a Monday...

More granular payment statuses

Payday is the most important day for employees. It's an opportunity to build trust between employers, employees, and your platform. With that in mind, Check now supports payment statuses at the payroll item and contractor payment level.