@ tmc
as well as marking them eligible for the 1099
you have to pay them using the expense account that is mapped to block 7 of the 1099, you select that when you go through the steps of prepare 1099, best to do that early
as a thought, all contractor payments for 1099 eligible contractors post to one block on the tax filing, it is called non employee compensation, so that is what I name the expense account I use for contractor payments. Just makes tax time easier IMO.