Enterprise Payroll.
Mathematical Precision.
Checkmate Payroll runs federal & state-compliant payroll and prints your company paychecks on demand. Built for founders, ops teams, and controllers who want the numbers to reconcile to the cent.
Everything you need to cut a paycheck. Nothing you don't.
Federal Publication 15-T brackets, FICA, Medicare additional & per-state rates calculated per paycheck. No spreadsheets.
Generate printable PDF paychecks with MICR routing lines and itemised earning statements attached. Feed pre-printed check stock or blank paper.
SS wage base, Medicare additional threshold and per-state flat rates baked into the engine and updated annually.
Every run stores a frozen snapshot of employee info, gross, deductions and net. Reprint stubs any time.
Manage hourly + salaried employees, filing status, additional withholding and terminations in one dense table.
Weekly, biweekly, semimonthly and monthly cycles. Preview totals, confirm, print. Under a minute per run.
Grounded in the tables.
Our withholding engine implements the 2026 IRS Publication 15-T percentage method, FICA (Social Security wage base $184,500 · Medicare 1.45% + 0.9% additional over $200k), and official 2026 withholding tables for all 51 state jurisdictions.
- IRS Publication 15-T (2026)
- SSA Wage Base 2026
- FLSA Overtime (1.5×)
- State Withholding · CA / NY / TX / FL & 40+ more
Three tiers. Real ROI.
Start free with a small donation. Unlock the full compliance engine with Pro, or automate your entire back office with Pro Plus.
Grandfathered pre-2026 customers keep their $1,500/mo rate forever.
- → Basic time tracking
- → Manual paychecks + PDF stubs
- → Employee self-service portal
- → W-2 generation
- × Advanced tax reporting
- × AI Office Manager
- ✓ Everything in Community
- ✓ Federal + 50-state tax compliance
- ✓ Predictive Payroll & Budget Alerts
- ✓ Quarterly Tax Summary Reports
- ✓ HR Document E-Sign (E-SIGN Act §101)
- ✓ Mapbox Worksite Geofencing
- ✓ Twilio SMS Alert Escalation
- ✓ Stripe Connect ACH Payouts
- ✓ Everything in Pro
- ✓ AI Office Manager Concierge (~4 hrs/wk saved)
- ✓ Client Billing packets (~8 hrs/mo saved)
- ✓ Remote Work Monitoring (15-min heartbeats)
- ✓ IP geolocation + unusual-login flags
- ✓ White-glove onboarding
- ✓ Priority founder support
Start free. Print checks tonight.
No card required. Create an account, add your first employee, run payroll, and download printable check PDFs in under 5 minutes.
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