Remote check printing

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For live payroll processing only

With the Remote Check Printing feature, your firm can prepare payroll and vendor checks and then transmit PDF copies of them to the client's NetClient CS portal for the client to print. There are a number of advantages to using remote check printing.

  • Your firm can go paperless.
  • You can avoid the added expense of purchasing envelopes and stamps.
  • Staff time isn't wasted stuffing envelopes.
  • Your clients can print payroll checks at their convenience, when they’re ready to give them to employees.
  • You're assured of a fast and secure delivery of payroll checks; no risk of checks being lost or delayed in the mail.

Note: If your client is set up to use Accounting CS Client Access, you do not need to use the remote check printing feature. Your client can print payroll and vendor checks directly from their Accounting CS application. For detailed information about the features available to clients, see Accounting CS Client Access features available for client use.

Setting up the client for remote check printing

To set up a client to use remote check printing, follow these steps.

  1. Choose Setup > Clients and click the Payroll Information tab.
  2. In the Default Check Output section, click the Remote check printing option.
  3. Specify which types of checks should be printed remotely for this client by marking the applicable checkboxes.
    • Payroll checks. You can mark the Send to FileCabinet CS checkbox to send the payroll checks to FileCabinet CS after printing. You can also mark the Exclude net checks checkbox to send only checks with a net check amount of zero to the client portal for remote check printing.
    • Vendor checks. You can mark the Send to FileCabinet CS checkbox to send the vendor checks to FileCabinet CS after printing. You can also mark the Exclude funded checks checkbox to prevent funded checks from being sent to the client portal for remote printing.
  4. If they don't have one already, create a NetClient CS portal for your client and mark the Remote Check Printing checkbox. For instructions on creating a NetClient CS portal, see Adding client portals. For instructions on enabling remote payroll for an existing NetClient CS user, see Modifying a NetClient CS user's access to Remote Payroll.

Printing payroll checks remotely

If the client has been set up to use remote check printing, the application automatically sends checks to the client's portal when they are printed.

For more information about printing payroll checks, see the Printing payroll checks procedure.

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