#7. Complete Review of Checkmatic Software. CheckMatic Review.       phonechex.com  officepro.com
                                                                  Overall Rating for Checkmatic   POOR   
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Features:
CheckMatic software had all kinds of bells and whistles that you would want in the 1990s like an area code directory and Multi Level Marketing "MLM Panel". It also has import and export, checks and drafts, batch printing, bank data storage, and quite a few of the more useful features you would expect from one of the better products.

Ease of Use
The CheckMatic was quirky but easy to use. It had crazy background pictures on the main menu, but I was able to enter checks and drafts with ease and print them out without even looking at the manual or talking to the technical support. I thought it was user friendly, but the items I tested did not work with the self scan ATMs and did not work with desktop deposit. Come on guys, Check 21 has been around for a long time. I brought my drafts, rejected from my desktop deposit application and from the ATM over to the teller, and my bank jacketed them with no fees, and credited them to my balance without issue.  The items were returned paid and jacketed, then converted to images when they appeared back in my statement.

How It Works at the Bank
The checks and drafts that CheckMatic print are not Check 21 compliant or ANSII compliant. They don't work with desktop deposit and don't work in the envelope free ATM machines.  Because the bank manually processes them, many banks will likely just refuse them entirely.

Installation Ease
I downloaded the CheckMatic Business Professional Edition with no ID and within 10 minutes I was printing checks and drafts. The menus and functions are numerous and scattered, but easy enough to find.  If the software produced legal items for deposit, it may get higher rankings.

Help and Support
Their phone support was available and answered the phone starting at 10 a.m. on the day I installed the software.

The Full Picture
CheckMatic is marketed online at phonechex.com and officepro.com. The software was written in 2001 and while the websites claim a 2012 copyright, the content has not been updated for over 5 years. When I went to order my copy, the site was running a special that expired in 2007.

The software itself is outdated and clumsy and the drafts CheckMatic prints do not work with the current banking system unless they are manually processed and jacketed or striped by the bank.  At $169 this software will do nothing but get you into trouble with your bank eventually and it would be best to steer clear of CheckMatic.

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Overall Rating for Checkmatic   POOR   

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