Businesses have a wealth of resources at their fingertips to help them make their banking easier. With the large amount of transactions that a business conducts over the course of a year, finding the most functional products for your company is very important. Fortunately, there are many different styles of checks that can be tailored to fit your business's needs.

Types of Checks

Your business can order checks that fit into your desktop printer. You'll need finance software in order to properly format the printing of the checks. Peachtree, Quickbooks, Quicken and MS Money are all examples of money management software that allow you to print directly onto your checks. When you order the checks you'll need to specify which software you use so that the checks will fit the formatting of your program.

Business checks are also available in desk format, which allow you to keep track of the checks that have been written more easily. Instead of carbon copies of checks, you record your checks on side stubs that are easier to organize and read at tax time. Usually desk format checks are bound in some sort of binder or book so that you can keep track of the checks and the side stubs better.

Payroll checks are a kind of desk format check that lets you break down employee payment. Payroll checks also have side stubs to help you keep track of payments, but instead of just the basic information to fill in, the payroll stubs have slots to fill in for taxes, social security deductions, and health insurance deductions. In addition to the side stub that the business keeps, the employee also gets a detailed breakdown of deductions on another separate side stub for their records.