So I'm just about out of our "three-on-a-page" 300 perforated business checks [that fit in a checks binder and have tear-off stubs] that I've been using since 2001. Since we don't frequently pay expenses by physical check for our four rental homes, especially after about 2010 or so, I really don't want to order more than about 150 at the most. But it seems that 300 is the minimum I've been able to find. Maybe there's some other vendor I'm missing that can provide our same style of checks in smaller quantities?

I usually get 300, just because it evens out the shipping. (ie, paying 1 shipping for x checks, rather than paying multiple shippings for fewer checks.) Since it all fits in the same-size binder, there's not much space savings whether that binder has 100, 300, or 500 checks in it at a time.

That makes sense, Deanna. We probably won't use more than about 50-75 max, but our kids can inherit whatever is left!

I like "voucher" style checks -- one three-part check on a page. I bought 500 checks from Walmart about 3.5 years ago, and I still have about 200 of the checks left.

I found that the price to buy 500 checks was just slightly higher than the cost of 250. And shipping was not much more for the 500 checks.

Back when I purchased my last order, I was writing a lot more checks than today. Now, I pay most of my bills using Electronic Fund Transfers (saves a lot of postage and I am not dependent on the Post Office making timely delivery). Yesterday, the first of the month, I wrote only four checks. At that rate, the checks I still left from the order of 500 checks will last me another 4 years!

I use Quicken to print the checks.

We just get regular carbon copy checks from our credit union.

We have one color for the business and one color for our personal account.

As checks are cut they are entered into an excel file for tracking.

I never saw the need for the big three to a page checks, especially now that we don't write many anyhow.

One of my Banks, that specializes in Business Relationships, advertised "Insured Security Checks", printed in House. They were NCR duplicate, embossed with other security features. They came with a "Guarantee" against Fraud.

Sometime later this "Bank" outsourced the printing of these secure checks. And they quietly removed any advertisements about guarantee's.

I had a reprint for more check, continuing the check number forward. My receipt and debit slip, charges to my checking account, stated "Security Business Guaranteed Checks".

Someone from the third party printer make up some extra checks and someone went on a spending spree, costing me Thousands. My Bank refused to credit me or reverse charges.

Federal auditors obtained the checks who's numbers were the same as checks I had already written.

I use them to pay my local utility bills, property taxes, plus various workers. Yard guys, cleaning ladies, handymen, plumbers, electricians, HVAC.

I like saving local small biz'es processing fees. I like avoiding processing fees on my end.

It's a helpful record for me to reconstruct my expenditures for Schedule E at tax time. Everything either gets routed onto a card or a check, so I have a paper trail that tells me where my money went.

Ultimately, it's just me using a dinosaur system because I started small and grew slowly. I'm old enough to be familiar with non-paperless office systems, but I'm also old enough to have watched sooooooooo many computer programs become outdated/unsupported/obsolete over time. So I'm cautious about entrusting my systems to a method that might not survive the next computer upgrade.

For pre-printed business checks in small quantities (100), I too have ordered from checksforless dot com and was satisfied with the results.

We also pay everything electronically when possible - but like Deanna, we have to pay small vendors [some painters, yard, power wash, and cleaning people] by check - usually only at turnovers, which we don't have often. I use our biz Visa unless a fee is added for using it. I've only written five checks in 2026 so far, four of which are due to a turnover.

I just hired a guy to mow an out of town place. I told him that I have Venmo and PayPal if he wanted to go the electronic route.

He prefers to send me an invoice via snail mail and get a check in return. Meh, to each his own.

I use them for things where using a CC costs more than the check, stamp and time. Paid for a roof being put on last month via a check. Saved me a couple hundred in CC fees.

@Zero: "We just get regular carbon copy checks from our credit union."

I have No Carbon Required deposit slips. After a few years, the chemicals that are the "no carbon required" feature wear out, and the duplication no longer works. I actually bought a small package of carbon paper and cut a few sheets into the size of the deposit slips so my "no carbon required" now uses carbon paper to give my clear, spark copies. Image, carbon paper in this millenium!!

Whatever works!