Contractors see their own payment history
Each contractor logs in to their own portal to see payments and year-to-date totals — nothing about your employees, and nothing about any other contractor.
- Full payment history and year-to-date totals
- Kept separate from W-2 payroll at the database level
- Ready for 1099-NEC prep at year end
Why separate contractor payments from payroll
A 1099 contractor isn’t on your payroll: no federal withholding, no Social Security or Medicare taken out, no FUTA. Mixing that logic together is how businesses end up with a contractor who looks like an employee on paper. Ideal Workforce keeps contractor payments in their own track, with their own portal and their own records.
Recurring or one-off payments
Log a one-off payment for a single job, or set up a recurring rate for a contractor you pay regularly. Every payment is timestamped and kept on record, building toward an accurate year-to-date total.
Ready for year-end
Year-to-date contractor totals are tracked throughout the year, so you’re not reconstructing a full year of payments from memory or a spreadsheet when it’s time to prepare 1099-NEC forms.
Self-service for contractors
Every contractor gets their own secure login to see their own payment history and totals — the same self-service model as employees get for paystubs, just scoped to what a contractor actually needs to see.
What this does not include
Ideal Workforce records and tracks contractor payments; it does not originate ACH payments to contractors and does not transmit 1099-NEC forms to the IRS on your behalf today. You issue payment and file 1099s yourself, with accurate totals in hand.
Pay contractors without the spreadsheet
Contractor payment tracking is included on every plan, starting at $49/month plus $4 per active worker.