Setting up 1099 contractors
It’s important to set up 1099 contractors correctly in QuickBooks to ensure payments are tracked for 1099 reporting purposes. In QuickBooks, contractors are set up as vendors, which is anyone that you pay who is not an employee. To learn more about how to set up vendors, refer to Chapter 5, Managing Customer, Vendor, and Products and Services Lists. To ensure that the information you enter is accurate, request a W9 form from all of your contractors. This form can be obtained from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). It will include the contractor’s name or the name of their company, their federal tax ID number or social security number, their business entity (for example, sole proprietor, partnership, or corporation), and their mailing address.
Pro Tip: It is best practice to obtain a completed W9 form from each vendor before you make your first payment to them. Having this information is important because you will need it to create...
