A five line pre-inked stamp carrying your account information, for endorsing the back of checks you deposit in one press.
Format: Five line pre-inked stamp
Ink: High quality black ink, long lasting ink pad
Customization: You supply all five lines of text
Price: $28.00 for one, $24.50 each for two
Bulk orders: Get a Quote option available
An endorsement stamp prints your business details on the back of a check so it can be deposited into your account. Every check you receive needs endorsing before your bank will accept it, and the stamp replaces writing that information out by hand each time.
The back of a check has a narrow strip set aside for this. Whatever goes there identifies who is depositing the check and into which account, which is how the bank knows where the money should land.
A stamp does that in one press, identically every time. If you deposit more than a handful of checks a month, it removes a small repetitive task and takes a common source of error out of the process.
What Goes on the Five Lines
This stamp gives you five lines and you supply the text for all of them during ordering. Most businesses use something close to the following arrangement.
A restrictive instruction such as For Deposit Only, which prevents the check being cashed or diverted if it goes astray. Your business name exactly as the account is held. Your bank name. Your account number. And a final line for anything your bank specifically asks for.
That is a common pattern rather than a rule. What matters is that the wording matches what your bank expects, which is worth checking before you order rather than after.
Endorsement Requirements
Banks do have requirements about check endorsements, covering both what the endorsement says and where on the back of the check it sits. The area is deliberately narrow, because the rest of the reverse is reserved for the banks handling the check after you.
An endorsement that strays outside that area, or that is unclear, can slow a deposit down or cause it to be returned. That risk rises with mobile deposits, where the image is read automatically rather than by a person who can interpret a smudged line.
Because requirements vary between banks and change over time, confirm the exact wording and placement your bank expects before ordering. Ask them what they want on the endorsement and how many lines they need. Five minutes on the phone saves reordering a stamp that does not meet their standard.
Three reasons, in order of how much they matter.
Consistency. Every impression is identical and legible. Handwritten endorsements vary, and a rushed one across ten checks is exactly the kind that gets queried.
Speed. Endorsing thirty checks by hand takes real time. Stamping them takes about a minute.
Protection. A For Deposit Only endorsement applied immediately on receipt means a check sitting in a drawer overnight cannot simply be cashed by someone else. Stamping checks as they arrive rather than as you bank them is a small habit that closes a real gap.
This is a pre-inked stamp, which means the ink is held inside the stamp body and released under pressure rather than picked up from a separate pad.
In practice that gives a cleaner impression with sharper edges, no separate pad to carry or dry out, and no ink on your fingers. The ink pad is long lasting, so a single stamp handles a considerable volume of endorsing before it needs attention.
Sharpness matters more than it sounds for endorsements, particularly if you deposit by phone. A crisp impression photographs and reads cleanly. A soft or patchy one is where mobile deposit rejections come from.
Two options are available.
One stamp. $28.00.
Two stamps. $49.00, working out at $24.50 each.
Two makes sense more often than you might expect. Businesses receiving checks at more than one location need one at each. Keeping a second at reception, where checks actually arrive, means they can be endorsed on receipt rather than at the end of the week.
Holding more than one bank account? Each account needs its own stamp, since the account number is printed on it. Needing several, use the Get a Quote option and we will price it for you.
These do opposite jobs and it is worth being clear which you need.
An endorsement stamp goes on the back of checks you receive, so money can come in. A custom signature stamp goes on the front of checks you write, authorizing money to go out.
Most businesses that handle checks in both directions end up with both, and they carry very different risk. An endorsement stamp deposits into your own named account and is of little use to anyone else. A signature stamp authorizes payments and needs storing accordingly.
If you work from a handwritten checkbook, a check book binder holds your pages and completed stubs in sequence. Mailing payments? Double window envelopes mean you never address one by hand.
If you are setting up or refreshing your payment process, ordering checks and accessories together keeps everything matched and on one order.
Printing from accounting software? Start at computer checks. Writing by hand? See manual business checks, accounts payable checks for supplier payments, or multi purpose business checks if your payments do not fall into one category.
Need checks on a personal account? See personal checks. To compare every format we carry, start at business checks.
We have printed business checks since 1997. That is nearly three decades of doing one thing rather than maintaining a broad catalog, which is why our accessories are built around how checks are actually used rather than sourced to fill a gap in a range.
Orders are placed online through a secure checkout, which keeps processing quick and accurate. We accept all major credit cards and PayPal. Sales tax applies only to orders within New York State, and businesses holding an exemption can email the form after checkout.
Questions before ordering? Email sales@checksnextday.com, read more about Checks Next Day, or browse our frequently asked questions.
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