Let me right a check to you so that you can get the money when you are ready to spend it. I write you a check in your name as $500.00 cash. You then take the check to your bank to cash it. The bank teller will ask to see your identification to make sure that it matches the signature on the back of the check. What the teller is then going to do is key in the account numbers at the bottom of the
. check to make sure that the fund are available in this account. Lets say that the funds are available the bank teller then goes back to her station and ask you how to do you want this large bills or mixed. Now if the check is drawn off another bank and the teller do not know you then she will call that bank and see if the funds are available and they will ask her for what amount is it for, it the funds are there they will then put the check on hold to make sure that amount will not be taken out in case there is some more money that they are using from that account, that is the procedure to clear a check.