1099 Flag

Hi there, Deadwood.

In QuickBooks Desktop (QBDT), eliminating the 1099 flag from your General Ledger (GL) account in mass is unavailable. Thus, you'll need to remove the 1099 flag individually.

Moreover, you have the option to edit your sub-accounts in QBDT. Please see the steps below:

1. From the main menu, select Lists and then Chart of Accounts.

2. Right-click on the sub-account you want to edit and select Edit Account.

3. Make the necessary changes to the account details

4. Click Save and Close to apply the edits.

If you have more questions or concerns about your GL in QBDT, feel free to add a Reply below. We'll get back to you as soon as possible.

@Deadwood Al  I am not sure how applicable this is to Enterprise, so take this with a grain of salt.

In the Desktop applications I've used (non-Enterprise), within the Vendor>1099 Forms submenu, there is an option called Print/E-File 1099 Forms or, in some older years, 1099 Wizard.

A few windows into said option, you have the option to map your vendor payment accounts to the 1099 form. You can choose to 'Show All Accounts' in a menu to the middle-right of the window, and it will populate a section of the window with all of your potential accounts, whether they've been mapped to 1099s already or otherwise.

It still must be done one at a time, but assuming it works this way in Enterprise, it would at least present you with a list of menus to click through, all in one convenient location.

Yes, I think the same is in Enterprise, but I was hoping for an easier way if one existed. Would be really nice if we had access to something like the "Add/Edit Multiple List Entries", but that doesn't seem to exist for the GL items ... Now just watch, someone from QB is about to tell me I should submit that to QB for an enhancement! Well, maybe I should. Users some generations from now may find that as an update they can use!!

Since you mentioned that method, however, I wonder .... when I've looked at that list, the GL items don't seem to appear in any logical order. One would sort of think they would be listed in numeric order but on our system they just jump all over the place, no order that I can discern at all. Do you experience that as well? Is there a way to make the sort in numeric order?

Thanks for the input. That is probably what I'm going to have to do, I was just hoping there was some magical answer I wasn't aware of.

@Deadwood Al  Looking at the list again, the only idea that comes to mind is 'order of creation', given that I see a COGS account sandwiched between expenses in no particular alphabetical order. That, or some manner of sorting based on QuickBook's internal IDs.

It's not surprising, I suppose. QuickBooks seems to be disinclined to enabling mass edits.

I have a company that switched from handwriting their paychecks to having us print them after several years, and it would only allow me to do a mass change from 'To Print' for some amount of months. Not looking forward to manually unchecking a thousand paychecks.