Why doesn't my Check payroll total match what left my bank account?
The Check help pages give 4 common reasons. The first to rule out: A payroll total can include amounts owed to tax agencies and benefits providers as well as pay, so it can differ from any single payment you see.
Is it broken, or just quiet?
A number can fall because fewer people came, or because something stopped counting them. Below are the causes the Check help pages give, and how to check each one yourself.
What causes it?
A payroll total can include amounts owed to tax agencies and benefits providers as well as pay, so it can differ from any single payment you see.
In the Check help:
Total amount that the company owes to employees, contractors, tax agencies, and benefits providers.
The totals object, read 2026-11-12.A small balancing amount can appear after payroll when employer or employee details change, or from normal rounding.
In the Check help:
Adjustments typically arise from changes to employer and/or employee information, or normal rounding.
Balancing Payrolls & Fulfillment Receipts, read 2026-11-12.A balancing payroll can be approved on one day and move money on a later day, so the two can sit in different periods.
In the Check help:
Funds don't move the moment a balancing payroll is approved.
Balancing Payrolls & Fulfillment Receipts, read 2026-11-12.A correction to past pay moves money on its own settlement date, so a debit or refund can appear apart from the payroll it corrects.
In the Check help:
Its money movement is scheduled to process on the correction's `settlement_date`.
Correcting Pay History, read 2026-11-12.
How do I check it myself?
Compare your bank debit with the payroll's cash requirement rather than its gross pay, since the cash requirement is the amount Check takes for that payroll.
In the Check help:
Total cash amount that Check will withdraw from the company's account for the payroll after it is approved.
The totals object, read 2026-11-12.Look at each tax deposit's funding and deposit status to see which tax payments have been funded and paid so far.
In the Check help:
Each Tax Deposit has a `funding_status` and a `deposit_status`.
Tax Deposits, read 2026-11-12.
How does Check work with Feder?
- Connect Check to Feder and it joins your Money apps.
- When you connect Check, Feder checks the connection straight away and shows Connected only when that check passes. If a reading cannot be taken later, Feder shows it as not read, never as zero.
Some numbers are too quiet to judge daily, such as a form filled in a few times a week. Until there is enough of your own history to judge a change, Feder says it is still learning and scores nothing, rather than guessing.
See whether you can trust the numbers in Check, one of your Money apps. Feder only reads. It never changes anything in Check.
What else goes wrong with these numbers?
- Why did my payroll total change in Check?Check
- Why did my payroll total jump in Check?Check
- Why did Google Analytics stop collecting data?Google Analytics
- Why aren't my key events showing in Google Analytics?Google Analytics
- Why does Google Analytics show (not set)?Google Analytics
See every question.
Where do these answers come from?
Every cause and check on this page comes from the Check help pages, quoted above with the date we read them. Last reviewed 2026-11-12. We read them again by 2027-11-12. If one changes, this page changes or comes down.