Enterprise Payroll.
Mathematical Precision.
Compliance-Ready Payroll Tools for US Businesses
Checkmate Payroll prepares federal and state payroll and filings from the published IRS and state tables, 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.
Compliance-Ready Payroll Tools for US Businesses
Grounded in the published tables — not in any government affiliation.
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 the published 2026 withholding tables for all 51 state jurisdictions. Checkmate prepares the documents and agency-format files; you submit them and keep the agency's confirmation.
- 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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