Check Strengthens Market Leadership as Demand for Embedded Payroll Accelerates

The company builds on strong customer momentum, deepened partnerships, and expanded industry presence

NEW YORK – May 21, 2025 — Check, the leading embedded payroll infrastructure platform, today announced continued momentum into the first half of 2025, building on a year of significant customer growth, deepened strategic partnerships, and rising industry influence across the payroll and small businesses ecosystems. In Q1 alone, Check helped partners move nearly $1 billion in payroll volume, representing a 3x increase over January 2024, and supported the filing of hundreds of thousands of W-2s with a 99.9% success rate. These milestones highlight the accelerating demand for streamlined, embedded payroll.

Check enables vertical SaaS and workforce management platforms that support small and medium-sized businesses to build, launch, and scale tailored payroll products. These offerings help small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) reduce administrative burdens and improve accuracy, while enabling platform partners to unlock new revenue streams. In 2024, Check saw breakout adoption of its white-labeled components and seamless integrations across health benefits, retirement, insurance, and accounting, helping platforms accelerate time to market with minimal internal lift. To date, Check has enabled over $8 billion in payroll earnings, with $4.1 billion processed in 2024 alone.

As Check continues to scale, it has also strengthened its leadership team with the appointment of Melissa Chambers as Head of Sales and Partnerships. Melissa brings deep expertise in go-to-market strategy and channel growth, and will be instrumental in deepening relationships across Check’s partner ecosystem and expanding its footprint in key verticals.

Customer Momentum and Strategic Partnerships 

Check’s partner ecosystem has continued to expand in early 2025, as more platforms chose to build on Check’s infrastructure and existing partners deepened their integrations. Recent highlights include:

• Hourly, a platform that helps small business owners manage, pay, and protect their hourly workers, migrated to Check to support its growing payroll business. Read more
• SocialSchedules, an all-in-one team management solution for hospitality and shift-based businesses, launched embedded payroll with Check. The platform helps business owners schedule faster, reduce labor costs, and stay compliant. Read more
• Miter, a construction back-office platform, published a new case study showing how Check enabled them to launch payroll in weeks—delivering a seamless experience to an underserved industry.
• 7shifts, a scheduling, payroll, and employee retention app designed to improve performance for restaurants. Read more

Meeting Growing Interest in Embedded Payroll

“Embedded payroll is proving to be the future for software and service companies supporting small businesses, and we are enabling these organizations to build differentiated, revenue-generating experiences that serve their customers,” said Andrew Brown, CEO and co-founder of Check. “We will continue to stay focused on our mission to make paying people simple and invest across product development, end user success, and partner enablement to meet rising demand and help the platforms serving the small businesses that keep our economy running.”

By the Numbers: Check’s Embedded Payroll Impact

• 70+ partners
• More than $8 billion in payroll earnings paid out to our partners’ customers
• Nearly $1B in payroll moved in January 2025 alone, a 3x increase YoY
• Hundreds of thousands of W-2s filed in Q1 with a 99.9% success rate
• Full payroll and tax coverage expanded across all 50 U.S. states, with new support for non-profit and agricultural organizations contributing to over 100% YoY growth in each category

This post originally appeared on BusinessWire.