Fit any platform. Serve any market.
Check’s configuration layer lets you design native payroll experiences that work for the teams you serve.
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Check API
Create custom experiences
From off-the-shelf tools to fully custom builds, Check gives you the flexibility to build your product your way.
Built for builders
Setup guides and examples
Remove guesswork with clear examples and starter code that accelerate integration and help your team ship with confidence.
Sandbox testing environment
A fully-featured test environment lets you prototype, validate, and refine payroll workflows using realistic data.
Ready for assembly
Spin up payroll with prebuilt primitives, webhooks, and auditability designed to reduce your engineering lift.
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Objects that fit your model
Evolve over time without painful rewrites using flexible objects and relationships that adapt to your existing domain model.
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Event-driven architecture
Expose real-time changes to payrolls, tax statuses, and company lifecycle updates using reliable, event-based webhooks.
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Visibility and control
Simplify debugging with rich audit trails, status updates, and event logs that give you full visibility into every change.
Loaded with
run-ready components
A library of off-the-shelf UIs and workflows let you ship common surfaces in a fraction of the time.
Run payroll
Create, edit, preview, and approve payrolls.
Pay history
Import historic payroll data from a customer’s previous provider.
Tax setup
Collect taxpayer details across thousands of jurisdictions.
Tax filing checklist
Help employers prepare for quarterly and year-end filings.
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Connected to
your customers
Proactive Notifications
Let businesses know when they’re ready to run payroll, when deposits are received, or when tax variances are funded.
Configurable comms
Automate common triggers, customize email messaging, and review delivery history in Check Console.
Flexible Rules
Tailor to any team
Customizable logic lets you support diverse business models, unique worker profiles, and up to 2,500 employees per company.
Solo vendors to national ventures
Bulk actions
Batch-create or update employees, pay items, and payrolls to support large employers.
Broad industry support
Equip your platform with built-in support for specialized tax codes, like nonprofits (501(c)(3)) and agriculture (H-2A).
Support any workforce
Fully configurable payment and tax rules let you adapt to however your customers pay their employees.
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Unlimited earning structures
Configure piece-rate, tipped, commission,
or seasonal earnings with built-in tax calculation compliance.
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Flexible pay schedules
Customize payroll cadences and run off-cycle payrolls for adjustments, commissions, or bonuses.
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Custom benefits and deduction
Support company-specific programs and policies with flexible benefits and deductions modeling.
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Multi-state and multi-location ready
Advanced location management
Assign multiple workplaces per employee, split wages by location, and consolidate reporting with ease.
Automated reciprocity handling
Cross-state withholding scenarios and other special tax cases are fully managed on your behalf.
“Our engineering team implemented a proof of concept in a few days, and within just months our customers were already running payroll”
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