I've been a QB user for years and years and as my business has grown I've turned over all accounting to my CFO. I needed to get into QB to check a few things and discovered the whole "worker/contractor" issue. I hate it. I hate it SO MUCH. Because in professional services there is a very big difference operationally between the guy who works on our server (he's a VENDOR, but he gets a 1099 because he's a small business) and our CONTRACTORS. A contractor is someone I bring on to handle a specific function of a project and they come and go based on project needs. These are not. ever. the. same. thing. A contractor is someone who works as part of your team, but they are not an FTE and therefore have different work structure. A vendor is never a part of your team because you're paying them for a service. I hate this so much. If I want to see what we've paid our contractors for the year or run any kind of report I have to overlook all the small vendors we use for specific services - like my plumber! This is so dumb, QB. Did no one every think to ask a professional services firm what they thought about this?
