I am beyond irritated with this issue. It's frankly ridiculous how this is handled. Like so many others in this thread, I already had the W-9s from my contractors and entered all the pertinent info (tax ID, mailing address) in their vendor profiles so I could e-file the 1099s through Quickbooks, which I did. Now I'm finding out that Quickbooks emailed all of those contractors asking them to create accounts and fill out W-9s! I had no idea that would happen and it's honestly embarrassing as this went out to law firms, high level consultants, etc.  One contractor contacted me to complain about all the hoops. Some thought they wouldn't even receive the 1099 unless they created an account and filled out the W-9 again. All I thought Quickbooks was going to do was email them that a digital copy was available, but they created this whole mess, and now all my contractors profiles in Quickbooks say "Waiting for info" in the Documents tab.

At this point, the damage is done, but I'm wondering if I should remove all email addresses so Quickbooks can't contact contractors like this again. The 1099s would still go out by mail, which is really all that needs to happen. I'd like to offer contractors the convenience of accessing the 1099 digitally, but not when it comes with the inconvenience of filling out paperwork they've already completed. This whole system is just boneheaded.