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Mar 13, 2024
Checkbook and Visa Collaborate to Maximize Instant Payment Availability
We're thrilled to announce a game-changing collaboration between #Checkbook and Visa, destined to redefine the way businesses, institutions, and individuals experience disbursements across the nation.
Sep 29, 2022
Faster Payments To Relieve Inflation
Line, a subscription based service that provides interest-free cash advances for the financially vulnerable, has partnered with Checkbook to introduce new faster payment options for its customers. Checkbook is a secure payment solution that offers businesses a simple and secure way to disburse payments at scale. They provide a single API to fintechs like Line to send payments using a variety of different methods e.g. Push to Card (Instant Pay), RTP(™) Real-time payments as well as ACH and Check21. Its white labelable solution has enabled Line Financial to scale rapidly to an annual run rate of millions of payments in less than a year.
Aug 01, 2022
Checkbook Delivers Faster Payment Disbursements For Government Age
Over the past two years, the fallout from a global pandemic has affected workers in every industry. For some – particularly those working in restaurants, bars, and other service sectors – restrictions and shutdowns have been especially difficult. As a result, government agencies have worked to address this problem, issuing essential grants and stimulus payments intended to help service workers, artists, and other at-risk sectors navigate the economic setbacks that they experienced.
Jun 23, 2022
Checkbook is Revolutionizing Payment Processing and Transforming a Billion-Dollar Industry
For decades, businesses and payroll companies have had to contend with slow and inefficient payment processing systems to disburse funds to employees, customers, and vendors. Even as companies continued to innovate in recent years, payment platforms remained stuck in the past with no way to connect the traditional methods to a new age of digital payments. With Checkbook, that connection has arrived.
Jun 09, 2022
Fiserv Adds Digital Checks to Payout Options
Financial services tech company Fiserv says it has expanded the portfolio of payout options for businesses using its Carat operating systems to include digital checks. According to a Wednesday (June 8) news release, the new offering is part of a collaboration with payments processor Checkbook, Inc. and “allows businesses that deliver mass payouts to offer additional choice, speed the delivery of funds to customers, and reduce operational costs associated with paper checks.”
Nov 02, 2021
Checkbook Secures $10M in Series A Financing Led by MassMutual Ventures
Checkbook Inc announced that it has closed $10 million in Series A funding led by MassMutual Ventures. IA Capital, JPMorgan Chase and Cross River Digital Ventures are also participating in the round along with previous other investors.
Jan 25, 2021
Checkbook.io’s Link to Plaid Looks to Bring Verification to Real-Time Payments
As the payments business moves toward faster settlement, verifying payor accounts becomes crucial, yet for non-card payments, “there’s a gap there,” notes Patricia Hewitt, principal at PG Research & Advisory Services LLC, a Savannah, Ga.-based payments consultancy.
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Nov 18, 2020
Visa Expands Fast Track Program to Enable Next Generation of Fintechs to Rebuild the Global Economy
Visa is transforming B2B payments, a segment that represents $120 trillion in opportunity, in its work with Fast Track members in every corner of the world, including: Checkbook.io.
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Oct 26, 2020
Some Digital Payment Innovators Still See Value In Checks
Kate Fitzgerald of PaymentsSource writes "Checkbook.io also leans heavily on paper check nomenclature and imagery, sending B2C payments via a text or email that opens to look like a check made out to the recipient."
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Jun 24, 2020
How Small Business Can Leverage Digital Checks to Get Paid Faster
Giving the user various options — instant payments, direct deposits, and printed mobile — offers newfound freedom in the payment landscape that had been previously restricted in the customer’s domain.
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Sep 16, 2019
How Small Business Can Leverage Digital Checks to Get Paid Faster - Nav
Jessie Bullis, owner of BBS Notary Services says, “I use Digital Checks for everything – my notaries, my bookkeeper, even my rents. It’s simple, and it’s quick. And that’s what I love about it.”
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Jul 23, 2019
4 Money Transfer Apps To Use When You Need Something Faster Than A Paper Check
"Checkbook.io is a digital checkbook alternative that replaces the act of writing and mailing paper checks with a simple email exchange. The best part is, neither the sender or the receiver of the "check" needs to sign up for a service to get started and neither side sees each other's financial information.", notes Holly Johnson of Business Insider
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May 23, 2019
Checkbook Teams Up with Event Management Platform Castifi
“Many of the cast and crew members that we work with can’t wait 2-3 weeks to get paid, which is the industry norm,” Castifi founder and CEO Rum Sheikhani said.
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May 22, 2019
Castifi Leverages Checkbook to Solve Instant Payments for Thousands in the Film Industry
“Many of the cast and crew members that we work with can’t wait 2-3 weeks to get paid, which is currently the industry norm. Our users regularly tell us about the difficulties of managing everyday expenses and uncertainty around when they will get paid. Finding a solution like Checkbook.io has allowed our users to get paid within 1-2 business days which is a game changer for our core business,” says Castifi’s CEO Rum Sheikhani.
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Apr 03, 2019
Meet Checkbook: A Digital Check Service That Aims to Put End to Paper Checks
Checkbook’s Digital Check solution gives Financial Institutions, control of their payment process. Checkbook’s benefits become increasingly goodbye in its ability to cost-effectively enable businesses to send and receive payments in bulk and track everything in real-time online.
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Apr 03, 2019
Check Out The Company That Created Digital Checks with Instant Payments
The business model works a bit like Dropbox in the sense that Checkbook gives away its service to consumers in hopes of infiltrating businesses that it will charge. Rather than try to sell Checkbook's convenience to companies one at a time, it hopes to gain viral traction and parlay that into real customers.
Press ReleaseNasdaq
Apr 03, 2019
Checkbook.io Launches InstantPay
Julie Muhn of Finovate says, "The technology works because Checkbook.io doesn’t use the antiquated ACH infrastructure, which requires recipient onboarding and takes three to five business days to move funds from one account to another."
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Oct 31, 2018
Multi-Award-Winning SaaS P2P Provider, Yooz North America, Announces Strategic Alliance With Checkbook
Laurent Charpentier, COO and chief innovation officer, Yooz North America says, “Checkbook is a strategic partner for Yooz in offering an automated and digital workflow for accounts payable. Our goal is to help is to make AP professionals’ work much easier, more streamlined, and to free them up for more strategic, value-added tasks.”
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Sep 12, 2018
Checkbook Reaches 2 Million Digital Check Users Bringing Consumer Ease To Business Payments
"Checkbook simplifies business and individual payments replacing time consuming steps for both the sender and the receiver of money with one email exchange. Checkbook immediately sends a Digital Check and does not charge percentage based fees like other payment companies like Square"
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Aug 13, 2018
Digital Check Solution Checkbook.io Makes Headway in Auto Finance
Baxter Credit Union, based in Illinois, has found a new solution to an old, and costly problem. David Brydun, vice president of consumer lending, exclusively told Bank Innovation that the financial institution has partnered with Checkbook.io on a digital check issuance solution that utilizes blockchain.
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Jun 28, 2018
“Back to the future” with Checkbook.io Blockchain enabled Digital Checks: The end of paper payments.
In contrast, customers of Digital Checks can confirm their account records in real-time by logging into their financial institutions’ website. So, this means there is no reason to go looking to find your routing or account numbers.
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Nov 08, 2017
Landmark Class Action Distribution Utilized Digital Checks From Checkbook.io Saving Time And Cost
"We partnered with Checkbook as of April of this year. I'm pleased to say that with the Checkbook platform, the transition to Digital Checks has been easy, painless and fast," says Steve Weisbrot, Chief Innovation Officer at Angeion. "I simply can't imagine why any company in the business of sending hundreds of checks a month or more would not utilize this technology."
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Oct 06, 2017
Checkbook.io offers digital checks and invoicing services
"While working on Noca, Gupta saw there was a gap in the checks payment market. He founded Checkbook.io to provide digital check payment options, which allows businesses to send any amount of money digitally, like with PayPal or Venmo, but with a small fixed fee no matter how large the amount."
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Aug 16, 2017
Checkbook is making sending and receiving checks as easy as pie
The imaginatively named Checkbook.io is looking to put a permanent end to that plastic sheath of kitten-printed dead tree that always seems to vanish to the least likely part of your house.
StoryAmerican Genius
Jul 26, 2016
With Checkbook, A Payments Veteran Creates a Souped-Up Engine for Check 21 Clearing
The United States remains one of the world’s last bastions of the paper check, a situation a startup called Checkbook Inc. sees as a massive opportunity.
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Mar 01, 2016
Checkbook lets you email anyone a Digital Check and deposit it free
"If you’re sick of running out of paper checks and stamps or hassling with routing numbers to send zero-fee payments, you can bank on Checkbook.", says Josh Constine of TechCrunch
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