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The Issued Check resource represents a standard paper check, commonly used for payments from a checking account. Checks may be issued only out of Treasury Prime ledger accounts through the API. Funds to cover the payment are withdrawn from the account when the check is issued so that checks cannot bounce.
Check issuing in production is currently only available to partnerships on the Treasury Prime ledger. Contact your Treasury Prime Account Manager to confirm its availability to your organization.

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Workflow

Issued Checks progress through statuses in the following way:
  • pending For checks submitted for issuance on our system before they are mailed. Possible next statuses are sent, canceled, error, and expired.
  • error If a check fails to be created, it goes into error state and funds do not move.
  • sent Checks that have been issued and sent. Possible next statuses are cleared, stop_payment_pending, returned, and expired.
  • stop_payment_pending Checks that had a stop_payment request made after they were already sent/mailed out. Possible next statuses are stop_payment, cleared, returned, and expired.
  • stop_payment Checks that have a stop payment request on them that have been confirmed by the issuing bank. These are checks that have been sent/mailed out, but that the bank does not intend to honor in the case of their deposit at a receiving bank.
  • cleared Checks that have been sent and cashed by the recipient. This is a status that is set by the bank.
  • returned Check has been returned by the bank and will not be honored as issued. This status is uncommon.
  • dishonored Check that the bank has refused to honor and will not be paid (for example, suspected fraud or a closed payor account). This is a terminal status set by the bank; fintechs cannot move a check to dishonored directly. Only checks in a sent status can transition to dishonored.
  • canceled Checks that were pending and have been stopped before being sent/mailed out. Funds will be returned to originating account.
  • expired Checks that are in a status of pending, sent, or stop_payment_pending are moved to expired after 180 days from when they were created.