Does your program print 1099s or do they come from QuickBooks?

SherWare will print the 1099s. It creates the owner 1099s from its owner history file and asks QuickBooks to supply the information for the Vendor 1099s.

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I couldn't remember if your system prints its own 1099's or if I need to order 1099's? Should I order blank perforated paper?

The system will print 1099s on blank paper to send to your owners. You can transmit the 1099s to the IRS so you shouldn't need any preprinted 1099s. The "1099 Misc. Replacement" can be sent to your owners. It will print each owner on a separate page so you will not need to have perforated paper.

You can build the 1099s and review the reports to see how they print if you want. The numbers will obviously not be correct until the end of the year but you can do this just to see how it reports. When you build them again at the end of the year it will overwrite what you build now if you do it.

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When I print my 1099's it only prints the top portion of the page. It does not print out on the bottom half. I am trying to make my 1096 and submit it to the IRS and I need both portions of the page to print. How do I make this happen?

It sounds like you have extra space in your 1099 format. Under the Utilities menu you can modify the 1099 format. Choose Laser 1099 to open the format. Then, click and drag the gray Detail bar higher on your page until it's somewhere close to 5.5 inches (using the ruler along the left side). Close the format, and save changes. Then try printing your 1099 again.

The format simply repeats itself on the page so that two are printed on page, so you may need to adjust the height of the Detail bar again if you still find it printing the second 1099 on a separate page, but this should get you pretty close.

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I did my vendor 1099's through QuickBooks and my owner 1099's through SherWare. I am having a hard time finding a program that has a blank 1096 form that I can use for filling out these merged 1099-misc forms and printing them. QuickBooks doesn't let you edit the 1096 it creates for vendors and SherWare doesn't provide a 1096. Can you recommend something?

SherWare will create a vendor 1099 for your vendors in QuickBooks also, so that the 1099 file and totals shown in SherWare include amounts paid to vendors in QuickBooks. You should be able to use the information shown on the 1099 Summary report in SherWare to complete your form 1096, even though SherWare does not create the form automatically for you.

If you want to use the vendor 1099 you've already created in QuickBooks that's fine. Again, you should be able to just take the totals displayed on the 1099 Summary report and use that information to add to QuickBooks 1099s for reporting on the 1096.

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How do I combine some amounts recorded in SherWare (customers in QuickBooks) with amounts recorded in QuickBooks (vendors) earlier in the year?

You can make adjustments to the 1099s, or add new ones, by using the Update 1099 File screen under the 1099 Processing menu. Do not re-create the 1099 file after making any updates using the Update 1099 File screen as this will overwrite your changes.

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