October 30, 2025

As announced in last week’s release notes, balancing payrolls containing TX State Unemployment Tax (SUI) variances will be created in draft status beginning tomorrow, October 31, 2025.

These are read-only, draft payrolls, which contain the TX SUI tax variances for Q4 that would be collected from or refunded to the company if the quarter were to end on the current date.

Balancing payrolls will be refreshed on a weekly basis, and Check will be adding additional taxes to balancing payrolls throughout the quarter. You can learn more about this feature in our help center article about Balancing.

Beginning November 6, 2025, the Filings API and failed filings report in Console will include a new blocked reason called awaiting_tax_funds for company filings where the agency requires filing and payments together, and Check has not received the needed tax liability funds. In these instances, Check is blocked from filing until those funds are received. You can find more about the funding issues in the company’s Console page.

As mentioned last week, we’re enhancing the descriptions that are available in the ach_details object in the Payments API for increased clarity. These will be released to Production on Monday, November 3, 2025. The description will read Credit/Debit to/from employer for reason for company_id, with the possible reasons listed below:

On Monday, November 3, Guideline will officially rebrand to Accrue401k. At approximately 12pm ET, Check will release an updated version of our embedded 401(k) component that correctly references Accrue. Guideline logos and copy will be replaced with references to Accrue. This is a purely cosmetic release and should not result in any functional changes to the component itself. Check partners who were previously live with Guideline will be able to continue onboarding new clients. However, moving forward, Accrue will no longer accept new leads from customers with an existing plan (i.e. conversions) or leads from customers who are part of a legally-related group.

If you have any questions, please reach out to growth@checkhq.com.

Sign ups are open for our remaining webinar sessions through the end of the year! We’re covering our Year Start Training as well as New Processes for Q4 Filings, plus a refresher on Setup 101 and Check 101.

Don’t miss out! Register yourself and your teams.

The max width on select embeddable Check Components is increasing to 800px from 600px. This will allow for more legible information to display on larger screens while preserving the ability to shrink width for smaller screen sizes. This change will be enabled in Sandbox today and will roll out in production on November 6, 2025.

This change will apply to the following Components:

If you’re using one of these Components, in most cases, you won’t need to do anything to turn on this update. However, you may choose to set a larger max width for better user experience and double check for any unexpected visual changes.

Following the launch of the statement_descriptor field in the API two weeks ago, today we’ve rolled out the ability to edit this field directly from the Company Info page within Console. As a reminder, this text will appear on employees’ and contractors’ bank statements (i.e. ‘Andrew’s Coffee PAY”).