October 16, 2025
Discover key updates on the Year End Playbook, Guideline rebranding, and new payroll features.
Year End Playbook Available Next Week
It’s beginning to look a lot like Year End!
The 2025/2026 Year End Playbook will be released in Check's Help Center on Monday, October 20th. As always, this resource breaks down timelines, important dates, year-end considerations, tax changes, and all the guidance your teams need for a successful year end.
The Playbook pairs perfectly with our Year End Webinar, presented live on October 22nd. We hope to see you there—sign up here.
Guideline is Rebranding to Become Accrue401k
In August, Guideline announced Gusto was acquiring their shared book of our business (Guideline customers that used Gusto for payroll). Since then, we’ve been working on determining what that means for Check partners and employers using Guideline, and finding alternative retirement provider options.
What’s changing?
Guideline's non-shared book of business will rebrand to become Accrue401k on or around October 31st. Check will update our iframe to reflect the new Accrue401k branding. Based on our understanding, all functionality, data syncs, and integration services for employers and employees, including rev share agreements to Check partners, should remain unchanged.
What does this mean for your integration?
If your integration is already active with Guideline, you can continue to offer retirement plans through Check’s component similar to before, under their new name Accrue401k.
Accrue401k will maintain strict data firewalls between itself and Guideline’s other divisions. They have specifically represented that Partner and customer data (including marketing, pricing or sales data) will not be accessible across divisions.
Look out for additional 401(k) partnerships coming soon!
Customize Company Name on Direct Deposit Bank Statements
We have enabled a new statement_descriptor field in Companies API, which can be used to override the business name that is provided as part of employee and contractor direct deposit payments and gets rendered on employees’ and contractors’ bank statements. If not provided, this name will default to the Check partner originator name if provided, or “Check Payroll” if not.
See Company API for more details.
New Bulk Patch Payroll Items Endpoint Available in Sandbox
We have added a new endpoint to Payroll Items API that allows you to PATCH up to 100 payroll items in bulk in a single request. This endpoint is now available in Sandbox, and will become available in Production next week on Thursday, October 23rd (or earlier, upon request).
See our API documentation for this new endpoint for more information.