Payroll for everyone left behind.

TheCheckStubs is an online pay stub generator built by a team of professional accountants who understood a gap in the US payroll market. Millions of American workers, freelancers, gig workers, independent contractors, and employees of small businesses, need proof-of-income documentation for everyday financial transactions: applying for a loan, renting an apartment, filing taxes, or verifying employment. Most of these people don't have access to payroll departments or enterprise HR software. TheCheckStubs was built to serve them.

The platform operates on a simple, transactional model. Users enter their company, employee, and salary information, choose from a set of professionally designed templates, preview the document, and download a printable PDF, all for a starting price of $4.99 per stub. The system handles all tax calculations automatically, supporting federal, state, and local deductions across all 50 US states. Templates come in multiple formats and colour options, from compact check-paper layouts to full-page letter-size documents, giving users the flexibility to match their business identity or simply pick what looks right.

The company positions itself firmly on the side of accuracy and legitimacy. In a market crowded with unreliable generators that produce documents of questionable quality, TheCheckStubs emphasises compliance with tax regulations, automatic calculation validation by in-house accountants, and a 30-day money-back guarantee. The platform accepts payments through PayPal and major credit cards, delivers documents instantly by email, and offers customer support with a 24-to-48-hour response window.

TheCheckStubs came to Keeways with a product concept that was validated but not yet built to the standard it needed to compete. The US paystub generator market is saturated with low-quality tools, many of which produce documents that look obviously fake, perform calculations incorrectly, or present users with confusing interfaces that undermine trust at exactly the moment it matters most. For a product that handles financial information and produces documents used in legal and financial contexts, credibility is not a feature, it is the product.

Several specific problems defined the scope of the engagement. The marketing site needed to communicate trustworthiness immediately, converting first-time visitors who are often anxious about the legitimacy of online paystub generators in general. The application itself needed to be fast, intuitive, and error-proof, users filling in salary details, tax withholdings, and employer information cannot afford ambiguity in the interface. The document output had to look indistinguishable from pay stubs produced by established payroll platforms, with accurate calculations across every US state's tax code. And the entire experience, from landing page to downloaded PDF, needed to work cleanly on mobile, since a significant portion of the target audience accesses the platform from their phones.

The brief was to design and build a complete product: a marketing site that earns trust before the user ever reaches the generator, a web application that makes document creation effortless, and a payment and delivery pipeline that feels instant and secure.