Check Blog

Announcing Earning Rates

We’re excited to announce Check’s new Earning Rate API. As a developer, you now have the ability to store employee salary and hourly wages in Check as Earning Rates. This enables Check to then use that data to calculate the correct gross pay when running payroll.

Introducing Check Components: A faster way to build embedded payroll

Check Components are embeddable flows that you can add into your application with a few lines of code. Pick and choose from a variety of Components that allow you to easily onboard employees, run payroll, generate reports, and set up third-party integrations.

Announcing Check + Quickbooks Online

We’re excited to announce an integration with Quickbooks Online. Time wasted by businesses manually manipulating and importing payroll data into their accounting software builds up fast. Here at Check, we understand the importance of closing the loop on payroll data, and one of our goals is to make that process simpler than ever for local businesses.

Stepping up our support for contractors through Check Onboard

Traditionally, contractors have been an afterthought for payroll companies, despite the fact that well over 10% of all workers in the U.S. are independent contractors, a number that only continues to grow. That’s why Check has spent the last couple of months revamping our support of contractors, adding the ability to onboard contractors through Check Onboard.

Storing additional information in Check using metadata

At Check, fostering an excellent developer experience is always top of mind. We focus on building tools that give you the flexibility to create the payroll product that will best serve your customers. That’s why, starting today, you can use the metadata parameter on our supported resources to add auxiliary data to Check objects.

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

While there are several reasons a business may need to deliver paper checks to workers, the process of writing paper checks by hand is time-consuming and often error-prone. That is why Check built a new API endpoint enabling white-label paper check rendering. Instead of manually writing a paper check, payroll teams have the option to print those checks directly from the system where payroll is being run.

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...