Amount in Words and Cheque Writer

Writing amounts in words by hand is slow and one wrong word can mean a spoiled cheque or a document sent back. Typing cheques one by one at month end is worse. This app writes the words for you and prints the details onto your own cheque, lined up to your printer.

On Amount in words, type an amount and copy the English or Arabic words. On Layout and calibration, enter the size of your cheque, print the calibration page on plain paper, hold it against a real cheque to the light and enter the offsets. Then print one cheque from the Cheque tab, or load a CSV with payee, amount, date and memo and print the whole batch.

What is inside:

• English and Arabic words for amounts below one quadrillion
• AED with fils, plus USD, EUR, GBP, SAR, QAR, INR (2 decimals) and OMR, KWD, BHD (3 decimals)
• Style options: title case, the word and, the word only, where the currency name sits
• Single cheque and batch printing, with figures and words, date styles and memo
• Cheque size, field positions, printer offset and a calibration page
• Download the batch with words as CSV, JSON backup, example data

Who it is for: finance staff, small businesses and PROs who still pay by cheque and write the same kinds of amounts every week.

What it is not: It prints cheques. It does not keep a cheque register, track post-dated cheques or know your bank balance. Printing exactly onto a cheque depends on your printer feeding paper the same way each time: print a test on plain paper and check the first real cheque carefully. Banks can refuse cheques for reasons that have nothing to do with printing, so follow your bank's own rules. The Arabic words are produced by rules and need a native read before you rely on them.

How it differs: The pdc-cheque-register-offline-app keeps a register of cheques received and issued. This app only writes the words and prints the cheque. Use both together if you need a register as well.

Tested: 57 scripted browser checks. English words were compared with the open-source num2words library on 4,239 amounts and all matched. Arabic words were compared with a 66-case table written by hand and all matched, which still does not replace a native reader. Amounts are handled as exact decimals. Printed pages were rendered to PDF and the page size and positions of the fields were measured. Not tested: a physical printer, real cheque stock or any bank. It was tested in Chromium only. Firefox, Safari, a real phone and a real printer were not available for testing.