How to sign over a check?

A third-party check is a personal or business check that is signed over as payment to another person. When a check is written to you, and you need to pay someone else with it, signing over a check can be helpful.

Here are tips on how to sign over a check

1. Sign the back of the check, as usual, expect to keep your signature in the top section of the endorsement area.

2. You are to print “pay to the order of” and the third-party name in the middle section of the endorsement area.

3. The third-party should not sign on the check until it is deposited or cashed; this means having the third party sign the check-in the bottom section of the endorsement area.

You may want to sign over a check, but this is your first time.

Do not worry because this is something that you can definitely do.

• Step 1 is to decide to whom you would endorse the check.

• Step 2 is to confirm the person who will accept the signed over the check.

• Step 3 is to make sure that the bank will accept the signed over the check.

• Step 4 is to make sure that the back of the check will be in the upper portion of the endorsement area.

The last step is to say “Pay to the order of:”

Do not forget to place the name of the person below the signature that you have affixed on the check.

If you are signing over a check to someone, it means you are using someone else who has a bank account to help you deposit or cash the check that was paid to you by another person.

1. To sign over a check to someone, you will need to be sure their bank will accept the check. Once this has been ascertained, all you need to do is to endorse the check by putting your signature at the back of the check.

2. At times, there are some banks that will want you to put your full name even as you are signing at the back of the check, using the words "Pay to the order of" followed by your full name. The reason is so as to verify the authenticity of the check. Other banks will accept the check only if the person cashing the check sigh their name below yours.