August 14, 2025

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.

Transactions for a payroll (the employer debit and all employee and contractor payments) can now be accessed directly from the payroll detail page. You also have the option to cancel transactions in bulk, using a new “Bulk cancel transactions” option in the “…” menu in the upper right corner of the page.

Payrolls in a failed status can be voided if no direct deposit payments have yet been processed for the payroll. Voiding or funding all failed payrolls for a company will return the company to good standing.

See Funding Failure Guide for more information about recovering from failed fundings.

FICA and Employer FICA taxes have been renamed to “Social Security Tax” and “Employer Social Security Tax,” effective today.

The IRS confirmed that for the 2025 Tax Year, there will be no changes to key information return forms—such as Form W‑2, existing Forms 1099, and Form 941—as part of the phased implementation of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Similarly, there will be no changes to federal income tax withholding tables, and employers and payroll providers should continue with current reporting and withholding procedures. These delays are intended to avoid disruptions during the upcoming filing season and allow adequate time for implementation, with changes now scheduled for Tax Year 2026.

Check will be providing Year End training where we will dive deeper to cover best practices, including ways to surface overtime that isn’t reported on W2s.

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