Cheap personal checks can be found at retailers and your bank. Consider alternatives to checks as well. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who ...

The use of financial checks dates back to the 11th century, when a merchant in the city of Basra (present-day Iraq) sent written instructions to his bank, ordering the institution to make a payment ...

The decline of the check-printing business started when electronic payments began displacing paper checks 25 years ago. The Federal Reserve's network of check-processing centers shrank from 45 to just ...

Non-bank providers of checks commonly charge 5 to 24 cents per single check, while banks may charge their customers 38 to 65 cents, Bankrate research found. Before ordering checks from a third-party ...

Many checking accounts come with a starting set of free checks, usually containing 100 to 150 checks, upon opening, but once those run out, you’ll need to buy more. Ordering checks from the bank can ...

With the rise of peer-to-peer payment systems such as PayPal, Venmo, Zelle and several others, there’s rarely a need to write a check these days. Even so, checks aren’t completely extinct yet. Maybe ...