Mission Statement

Our mission is to safeguard our customers against check fraud using advanced security and protection measures. We will achieve this by utilizing cutting-edge technology and educating our customers on recognizing and preventing check fraud.

Secure Barcode LLC is a joint venture between
Carousel Checks and Cheque Guard


Learn About What We Offer & Why You Can Trust Us

Carousel Checks is committed to providing you with the highest quality products possible. Our catalog of check designs is second to none, and we are continually trying to design new concepts to ensure there’s something to fit each customer’s own unique personality.

Although specializing in personal checks, we also offer various types and styles of business checks, computer checks, address labels, checkbook covers, pre-inked stamps and much more. Not only do we offer a wide variety of products, but we innovate ways for customers to purchase and customize the items themselves.

Our stamp creation widget lets you preview exactly what your stamp will look like, allowing you to add styles and borders to achieve your desired design. Taking that concept a step further, we’ve also introduced a check creation tool. Now customers are able to upload their own photos and manipulate them into precisely the check design they want.


SSAE 16 Audit Complete

Carousel Checks is proud to announce that we have recently completed the Statement of Standards on Attestation Engagements No. 16 Type II Audit. The SSAE 16 audit is an attestation standard that establishes the requirements and guidelines for reporting on controls relevant to user entities’ internal control over financial reporting.

SSAE 16 was formally known as SAS 70; however, it was replaced with SSAE 16 as the authoritative guidance for reporting on service organizations. It was updated to reflect and comply with the new international service organization reporting standard, ISAE 3402.


Mission Statement

A Carousel check in every checkbook, nationwide.

Founded in 1991, ChequeGuard Inc is the leading innovator in cheque fraud solutions for smaller and medium-size businesses and financial institutions. ChequeGuard’s FormSuite for the IBM AS/400 series, and ChequeSeal™ and ChequeSuite™ for Windows allow businesses to integrate and rapidly deploy secure, controlled cheque printing and electronic payment solutions (In the USA: Automated Clearing House (ACH)), while concurrently creating a Positive Pay file for the bank as the cheques are printed by the customer.

ChequeGuard’s ChequePoint™ product allows banks to offer Positive Pay solutions to business customers without requiring customers to upload cheque issue files that are traditionally required for Positive Pay (uploading is optional). ChequeGuard’s solutions dramatically reduce operating costs frequently borne by both businesses and banks, while increasing the security of financial information shared.

  • 2001: ChequeGuard is granted a US Patent for its ChequeSeal™ product. ChequeSeal™ is a “secure seal” encrypted barcode that can be printed on cheques and other documents. The barcode contains all of the critical data printed onto the cheque. Each encrypted barcode is unique to that cheque, and cannot be altered. Our patented barcode encoding and encrypting technology (encryption and decryption) can detect and identify altered or counterfeit cheques at the teller line, as well as during the back office sight review process or high speed cheque image processing.
  • October 28, 2003: The United States Congress passes the Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act (Check 21).
  • 2003: ChequeGuard joins the Financial Services Technology Consortium (FTSC). FSTC was a financial industry research organization comprised of banks, financial services firms, cheque printers, and other industry partners. It’s purpose was to identify or develop image-survivable cheque security features that were useful to detect and prevent cheque fraud.
  • 2004: ChequeGuard successfully passes FSTC’s test for an image-survivable cheque security feature with its encrypted, image-survivable barcode.
    >> BusinessWire.com
    >> PRWEB.com
  • 2006: ChequeGuard and FSTC announce the completion of a major project to identify fraudulent cheques before they enter the payments system using state-of-the-art ChequeSeal™ technology.
    >> CUJournal.com
    >> DigitalTransactions.net
  • 2007: ChequeGuard joins a project to re-write the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standards for cheques and cheques printing in an image environment.
  • 2007: ChequeGuard joins ANSI’s Accredited Standards Committee (X9) to develop the Specifications for the Validation of Interoperable Check Security Features.