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| Best 1099 reporting software? Posted by sneakytiger Anyone else dealing with the horror of 1099 reporting this January? I'm looking at a list of 1500+ vendors crossing multiple 1099 types. Our accounting software's 1099 function is clunky so I'm abandoning it in favor of good old-fashioned excel skills. All I need now is some off the shelf software that is straightforward and has the ability to import via excel. TIA on 1/22 at 10:34 amThis post was edited on 1/22 at 10:49 am Reply • Back to Top |
| Try Quickbooks - cheap, easy to use, lots of support. Reply • Back to Top |
| Quickbooks makes standalone 1099 software? Let me clarify, I'm not looking to implement new accounting software, just something to get these damn forms out. Reply • Back to Top |
| Quickbooks does not make stand alone 1099 software - it is a full accounting suite. I suggested it intending that the whole package not be installed/used. Just load it up and use the part that does 1099's. If you want stand alone have a look at winfiler. It will be about the same price as QB and not as easy to use. Since you have a little more than a week to finish that should count for something! This post was edited on 1/22 at 8:04 pm Reply • Back to Top |
| LINK This software will import data from Excel, produce the Form 1099's from blank paper, doesn't cost that much, and you can download it and get started immediately. I can't say I've ever used it, but I have used similar packages in the past, and they all have to pass IRS review prior to being released to the public. Reply • Back to Top |
| Quickbooks works good for this if you create a dummy file. Figure out what each 1099 vendor is due, then create a dummy file with a category for each 1099 box. Write dummy checks to these vendors (showing a huge negative cash balance on the register) for the amount they were paid over the year and categorize them in the correctly maped 1099 box. Then print 1099s. Reply • Back to Top |
| Thanks. I ended up going with this. So far so good. Poodle, can you clarify exactly which forms have to be pre-printed? I was under the impression that only the IRS copy, but I see tons of 3-5 part pre-printed packages available through Office Depot, etc. Is that just for the suckers? Reply • Back to Top |
quote:You can file the IRS copies of the 1099's and 1096 electronically, so you don't need any pre-printed forms really. Those packages of pre-preinted forms are useful for paople who have to generate just a few 1099's or W-2's and they do not have a program that will produce them on blank paper. Reply • Back to Top |
| I thought that form 1096 was only necessary when filing paper returns with the IRS? Reply • Back to Top |
| Isn't the 1096 just summary transmittal information? I always assumed when you file the 1099's electronically the 1096 information is transmitted in the background. Reply • Back to Top • Refresh |
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