I'm not finding a lot of features in Quickbooks to support processing 1099 forms for our suppliers. We get the 1099 for independent contractors from ADP.
Does anyone make a third party application that will grab the information on vendors, let you flag which ones are corporations, and then create 1099s for the rest?
QB has all the 1099 features you need built right in. When you set up a vendor you specify if they get a 1099. Check the help section out in the program on how you use the features.
Will wrote:
Is that you again Willy Boy?
Havn't had any questions from you in awhile. Glad to see you are still around.
Set the box each item prints in, company preferences tax 1099
Yes QB only prints 1099-MISC's If you need INT's, R's, etc. you need to find something else.
For the other 1099 types, any recommendations on a third party package?
You said something positive Allan. I'm speechless. :)
I haven't had any questions because I'm so tired from fighting Quickbooks it was easier to compromise my requirements and just live with it. I'm looking forward to trying out QB 2006 Enterprise if I can ever locate a better price on it than what Intuit is currently offering.
Why? Been doing the 'compare products' thing on the Intuit website, because my version sunsets in little over a month. I see that Enterprise has '18 monsth support', 'Advanced User Permissions', 'Increased capacity and speed for larger and more complex businesses' when compared to the Premier versions, at double the price. (It also allows for more users, but the price increases per 5 person 'set'). Those may be features you want, but how does the Enterprise solution address your concern that you are "so tired from fighting Quickbooks it was easier to compromise (my) requirements and just live with it"? What do you anticipate will be easier with the Enterprise version?
And Allan, please feel free to jump in here. Knowledge is a good thing.
Will,
From the moment you started posting here I've been telling you that QB was not a good fit for your company. Enterprise will be more robust but if it is additional features your are looking for you won't find many.
I've been telling our friend Will this for quite some time now. Based on his previous posts, QB is not the software he should be using. In the past and most likely in the future I will be getting on his case.
It's not personal it is just that I sell and support a software product that is higher up on the software food chain. There are far to many users out there trying to get by with entry level software like QB that should be knocking on my door.
I need the advanced user permissions and the better performance on reports.
Come on Willy Boy, thats all you need?
Save yourself the trouble of installing a humongous piece of crapola and go to
The QB developers are idiots. Period. They are incompetent hacks who have no idea whatsoever about what it takes to put down some decent, simple and efficient code, let alone what it takes to run a small business using decent bookkeeping software.
People are plunking down several thousands of dollars in hardware in addition to the $3K++ price of EE, have knowledgeable IT people around to set up systems just so, and then they have EE '06 take 3-5 minutes to process an Invoice.
However, I found the ultimate way to determine if Quickbooks (any version) is good for a company: If the sample screens on the QB product pages show the most activity expected for a business, then QB can be considered, otherwise it's a bad choice.
Meaning, if you see in a sample screen of the Job Center (or whatever they call it) 3 jobs of 10K, 40K and 60K and a small cutsie graph of income/expense for each job, then if your business is expected *ever* to do more work than that, then QB is inadequate and should be avoided.
Reporting is utter crap in EE as it is in all other versions. The ODBC read only driver seems to be as excruciatingly slow as it was with previous versions of QB Pro, Premier, etc, (no first hand experience with EE 06 though) since it has to deal with gobs XML useless garbage in order to give access of QB data to an outside application.
It's too bad the accounting/bookkeeping area is one of the last to see decent software improvements for such long periods of time. With the processing power in average desktop systems nowadays a bookkeeping system should be able to do miracles with multi-gigabyte data files and a decent database structure, not wait forever to enter a transaction.
Not even the QB troll can justify that high level of incompetence.
:-)
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What version of QB?
AE seems fine for this to me. Third party add-ons for this and more are at
QB Pro 2004 5-user version, manufacturing and wholesale edition....
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