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Proof of income

Proof of income, straight from your own bank account

Skip the pay stubs and the letter from HR. Connect your bank and get a report of your estimated monthly income, based on your actual deposits, ready to download or send to whoever is asking. One report is $14.99.

Built for the person who has to produce the proof: renters, buyers, borrowers, freelancers, contractors, and anyone whose income does not arrive as a tidy twice-monthly paycheck.

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Income Checker produces informational bank-deposit analysis of your own accounts. It is not a consumer report, not employment verification, and not an approval of any kind. Whoever is asking for proof of income decides what they accept.

No pay stubs needed

Nothing to request from an employer, and nothing to wait on. The report is built from deposits that already landed in your account.

Works if you are self-employed

Freelance, contract, gig, 1099, or mixed sources all show up the same way: as money that arrived in your bank account.

Ready in minutes

Connect an account, and the report is generated while you wait rather than days later.

You decide who sees it

The report is yours. Download it or send it to the person asking. Bank credentials are never stored, and account numbers are masked.

What counts as proof of income?

There is no single official document. Whoever is asking, whether a landlord, a lender, a leasing office, or a private seller, decides what they will accept. In practice the common options are recent pay stubs, an employer letter, bank statements, a tax return or 1099s, and increasingly a bank-connected income report.

What every one of these is really trying to answer is the same question: how much money reliably comes in, and how steadily. A pay stub answers it for one employer. Bank deposits answer it for every source of income you have, which is why the bank-based approach holds up when your income does not come from a single job.

  • Recent pay stubs, usually the last two to three
  • A signed letter from an employer or HR
  • Bank statements covering two to six months
  • Last year’s tax return, W-2, or 1099 forms
  • A bank-connected report of your estimated income

What if you do not have pay stubs?

This is the most common reason people get stuck. You may be self-employed, paid per project, working several part-time jobs, newly hired, between roles, or paid by an employer who simply never provides stubs. None of that means you cannot show income.

Your bank account already holds the record. Every client payment, platform payout, paycheck, and transfer has been landing there the whole time. A bank-based report reads that deposit history and summarizes it into an estimated monthly figure, along with the deposits it is based on, so the person asking can see the pattern rather than take your word for it.

Self-employed, freelance, and gig income

Self-employed income is the hardest case for traditional documentation and the easiest case for deposit-based analysis. A tax return covers a year that may have ended eleven months ago. A pay-stub generator produces a document that experienced reviewers recognize on sight, and passing one off as genuine is fraud.

Deposits are current and they are yours. If you drive, deliver, contract, consult, or invoice, the payouts arrive in the same account, and a report built from them reflects what you are earning now rather than what you earned last tax year.

  • Platform payouts from delivery, rideshare, and marketplace work
  • Client and invoice payments, whether monthly or irregular
  • Multiple part-time or seasonal income sources at once
  • Commission, tips, or bonus income that varies month to month

How to get proof of income quickly

When an application is time-sensitive, the bottleneck is almost never you. It is waiting for HR to answer, for a portal password reset, or for a landlord to finish reading twelve PDFs. Removing the other people from the process is what makes it fast.

Connecting a bank account takes a few minutes and produces a report immediately. If the person asking wants supporting detail, the report shows the deposits behind the estimate rather than asking them to trust a single number.

How one verification works

  1. 01

    Connect your bank

    Choose your bank and sign in through the connection screen. Credentials go to your bank, never to us, and the connection is read-only.

  2. 02

    We analyze your deposits

    Deposit history is grouped into recurring income sources and summarized into an estimated monthly income figure.

  3. 03

    Download or share the report

    Save the report as a PDF or send it to whoever asked. Account numbers are masked to the last four digits.

Ways to show proof of income, compared

Every option answers the same question. They differ in who else you need, how long it takes, and whether they work when you have no employer.

MethodWhat you needHow long it takesWorks if self-employedCost
Recent pay stubsAn employer that issues them, plus access to a payroll portal.Immediate if you have portal access, otherwise however long HR takes.No. There is no employer issuing a stub.Free.
Employer or HR letterSomeone at your employer willing to write and sign it.Days to weeks, depending on the person on the other end.No, unless you write it about yourself, which most requesters discount.Free, but it costs you a favor and a wait.
Raw bank statementsPDF downloads for every month and account the requester asks for.Minutes to download, then the requester has to read them.Yes, but deposits are mixed in with everything else you spend.Free, and you hand over every transaction you made.
Tax return or 1099sA filed return, which only covers the year it was filed for.Immediate if filed, otherwise not available at all.Yes, and it is the standard for self-employed income.Free, but it can be a year out of date.
Bank-based income reportA bank login you authorize once. No employer, no documents.Minutes.Yes. Deposits are deposits, whoever sends them.$14.99 for one report.
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Proof of income for an apartmentWhat leasing offices typically ask for, how many months they want, and what to do if you cannot produce it.Proof of income examplesThe documents that get accepted most often, with what each one actually shows.Showing income without pay stubsOptions when there is no employer issuing stubs, and what reviewers look for instead.Gig workers and freelancersHow platform payouts and client payments are read as income.Sample income reportSee the exact report format before you connect anything.PricingOne report for $14.99, or prepaid credits that do not expire.

Proof of income questions

What can be used as proof of income?
Most commonly: recent pay stubs, a signed employer letter, two to six months of bank statements, a tax return with W-2 or 1099 forms, or a bank-connected income report. The person asking sets the requirement, so it is always worth confirming what they will accept before you gather anything.
How can I get proof of income quickly?
The fastest options are ones that do not depend on another person. A bank-connected report is generated in minutes because it reads deposits that are already in your account, with no employer, HR request, or document gathering in the way.
How can I prove my income without pay stubs?
Use the record your bank already has. Deposit history captures income from clients, platforms, multiple jobs, and irregular work, none of which produces a pay stub. A bank-based report summarizes that history into an estimated monthly income figure with the underlying deposits shown.
Does this work if I am self-employed or a freelancer?
Yes, and it is the case it handles best. Payouts and client payments land in your bank account the same way a paycheck would, so they can be analyzed the same way, without needing an employer to confirm anything.
Can I run this on myself, or is it only for checking other people?
You can run it on yourself. Create an account, connect your own bank, and the report is generated for you to download or share. Many people use it exactly this way when an application asks them for proof of income.
Will the person asking accept this report?
That is their decision, and it is worth asking them first. The report is informational analysis of your deposit history, not an approval or a credit report, so it is best offered as evidence alongside whatever else they require rather than as a substitute for their process.
Is my bank login safe?
Bank credentials are never stored by us. The connection is read-only and tokenized, access tokens are deleted once your data is fetched, and account numbers appear masked to the last four digits.
How much does it cost?
One report is $14.99. Credits do not expire, and packs bring the per-report price down if you are applying in more than one place.

Sources

Reviewed August 18, 2026

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