NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Check, the leading payroll infrastructure company that pioneered the ability for platforms to embed payroll into their products, today announced its partnership with Wave, the one-stop money management platform for small business owners. Over 300,000 small businesses that use Wave will soon have access to best-in-class full-service payroll functionality across all 50 U.S. states.Payroll has long been a growth hurdle for small businesses due to its complexity. There are 11,000 U.S. payroll jurisdictions, and the administrative burdens that come with proper tax calculation, form filing, and remittance can be stifling for small business owners who are often wearing multiple hats across HR, marketing and more. Check’s API abstracts the complexity required to both build and run payroll

1SellersFi now can provide Amazon e-commerce sellers with significant credit linesSellersFi, the Weston-based e-commerce fintech scaleup, today announced a financing solution with Amazon that will provide eligible Amazon sellers with access to credit lines of up to $10 million through Amazon Lending.“SellersFi was launched seven years ago to address e-commerce sellers’ paramount challenge: to secure the right capital to grow their businesses,” said Ricardo Pero, co-founder and CEO of SellersFi. “This relationship with Amazon highlights our dedication to transforming e-commerce financing to empower small and medium-sized businesses with the accessible financial tools they need to focus their energy and aspirations on amplifying their businesses and attaining exceptional growth.”Hurdles that sellers face in building successful online businesses include competition, order fulfillment, visitor conversion, marketing and others. Even when effectively addressing those factors, however, nearly a third of e-commerce startups fail due to running out of money, according to research by Marketing Signals. These lines of credit from SellersFi and Amazon Lending are meant to support sellers experiencing such challenges.SellersFi currently offers working capital, prepaid debit cards and digital wallets with insurance, business credit and debit, and checking accounts in the pipeline.READ MORE: Scaleup SellersFi closes $300M credit facility, plus equity raise from Citi and Mitsubishi2JourneyTrack closes $2 million seed roundAnia Rodriguez and her team have built a SaaS experience management platform to help companies deliver exceptional experiences for their customers. Her startup JourneyTrack enables companies to create personas and end-to-end customer journeys.Refresh Miami reported in October that JourneyTrack had raised $1.5 million in seed funding. Now the Miami based startup has closed its $2 million seed round that was led by Portland-based Elevate Capital and included Orlando-based through DeepWork Capital.“What JourneyTrack does is allows these end-to-end experiences to be understood and tracked and connected across different divisions, which is a huge pain point that exists today,” said Rodriguez, JourneyTrack’s CEO who gained key insights as a longtime user experience consultant for Fortune 1000 companies, told Refresh Miami in an earlier interview

NEW YORK MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Novo, the powerfully simple® financial solutions platform for small businesses, today announced Novo Payroll. Working with Check, the leading payroll infrastructure company that pioneered the ability for platforms to embed payroll into their products, Novo has launched a payroll solution that is fully integrated into Novo’s platform of small business banking, budgeting, and working capital solutions, enabling small businesses to manage their finances from a single platform. “Traditional small business payroll solutions consist of standalone applications characterized by high fees, burdensome cash-on-hand requirements, and either clunky or non-existent integrations between payroll and business bank accounts,” said Michael Rangel, founder and CEO of Novo. “In collaboration with Check, we built a payroll solution that simplifies and speeds up the process of paying small business employees.". Novo leveraged Check’s embedded payroll API to build Novo Payroll. With coverage in all 50 states, Novo Payroll streamlines the entire payroll process, from calculating wages to facilitating direct deposits and managing tax withholdings