Product updates

We’re thrilled to release the ability to download 2025 W-2s and W-2Cs, when applicable, via the Filing Preparation Checklist Component and the Filing Preview Component. The Filing Preparation Checklist component surfaces year end reminders, open tax setup requirements, and W-2s preview to help get your employers ready for Year End. The Filing Preview component is a subset of the checklist component and gives you the ability to view W-2s and W-2Cs before and after filing is completed. Implementing these components ensures your companies are ready for Year End and reduces the likelihood of amendments once filing is completed. Here is a Loom walking through how to use the Filing Preparation Checklist component.

Today we’re releasing the redesigned Filings API. The Filings API gives partners the ability to see what tax returns Check plans to file for a company in upcoming filing periods, as well as what tax returns Check has filed for a company in past filing periods. Information like status, status history, blocking reasons, amendments, and related documents will all be queryable through the Filings API. Using this API, partners will be able to communicate to customers with confidence what the status of their past and upcoming filings are.

As a reminder, the deprecated Tax Filings API will continue to be available in Check’s API through December 31, 2025 but will cease to have up-to-date data beginning in the Q3 filing period in October. If you’d like guidance on how to migrate between APIs, review this guide.

You now have the ability to mark payroll items and contractor payments for failed payrolls as manually paid in Console.

After experiencing a failed funding, employers sometimes choose to pay their employees and/or contractors manually via paper check to ensure that they are paid on payday. In these cases, you can now update the corresponding items to manually paid, which will update the cash requirement for the payroll before it is retried.

See Failed Funding Guide for instructions on how to mark payroll items as manually paid and information about failed fundings in general.

We have made several changes to processing timing and statuses for payrolls that are funded by wire:

1. The approval deadline for all payrolls funded by wire is now 4pm ET on payday, updated from 5pm ET the day before payday. This allows you the ability to create and approve payrolls with same-day payments if they are funded via wire. Note: if a wire payment is received by 5pm ET the day before payday, payments settle in employees’ bank accounts on the morning of payday; otherwise, they will settle by 6pm ET on payday.

2. Payrolls funded by wire will remain in a “pending” status until the wire is received, rather than transition immediately into “processing.” This means they can be reopened until the wire is received.

3. Payrolls funded by wire will move to a “failed” status if the wire is not received by the approval deadline. This does not create a failed funding strike for the employer, but will prevent the approval of additional payrolls until the payroll is funded or voided.

4. An updated fund by wire modal allows you to select a payday for payrolls funded by wire before approving payrolls.

These changes offer partners and employers greater flexibility and clarity when processing payrolls funded by wire. For more information about funding payrolls by wire, refer to our Fund by Wire guide.