Stop Payment on Check: Stop Pay Check

Why was my check returned Stop Payment? 
Why was the deposit returned Stopped?
What does Stop Payment Order mean? 
What does Stop Pay Stand For?

Stop Payment - Stop Pay - Check Stop - Stop PaymentCheck - Stop Payment Item - If your check or draft is returned with a Stop Payment this means the account holder, the person who originally wrote the check or authorized the draft has revoked their authorization.  


You cannot redeposit an item marked with a Stop Payment.  Stop Payment is a feature available to any account holder who contacts their bank BEFORE the check or draft they authorized is presented for payment.  

The account holder tells the bank the check number, the amount of the check and payee and the bank in turn looks for this check, or range of checks and returns the item(s) unpaid marked Stop Payment.

What next:
If you have a check or draft returned, pay close attention to the reason code so you know if you can redeposit the item. 

Protection:
Use services that will check the validity of your checks and drafts before you deposit the items. Free services to verify the routing number, are offered at https://routingtool.com and for as low as 39 cents each, you can verify and validate checks and find out if the routing number and the account number are valid by using https://bettercheck.com

Checks by phone:
Learn how to take checks by phone.

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               - Reasons For Return Main Page
               - Not Sufficient Funds
               - Uncollected Funds Hold
               - Stop Payment
               - Closed Account
               - Unable to Locate Account
               -  Frozen Account
               - Refer to Maker
               - Not Authorized