Product updates

Today, we’re thrilled to release the Employee Tax Statements and Tax Packages APIs.

Employee Tax Statements provide visibility into individual employee W-2s and W-2Cs that are expected or already submitted. The Employee Tax Statements API shows partners when Check filed these documents, whether they were amended, and their relationship to company filings.

The Tax Packages API enables partners to request individual employee tax statements for download, as well as request multiple filings and tax statements to be downloaded in a zip file in one request, regardless of employer size.

As a reminder, this is meant to replace the W-2 Preview report which will work through the end of 2025. We recommend migrating to these new endpoints by end of year. You can read about how to use both here.

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.