Hello, we have a vendor that we paid via the owner's credit card and we entered it as a journal entry instead of an expense entry. Now we cant find them for 1099 filing

Thanks for visiting the Community today, @tenderlovinglaun. I appreciate you for sharing your concerns about reporting vendor payments to 1099s. Let me provide details on how you can fix it in QuickBooks Online (QBO).

Ideally, the payments to 1099 vendors through credit cards, debit cards, or third-party systems, such as PayPal, are excluded from the 1099-MISC and 1099-NEC calculations. This is because financial institutions are responsible for reporting these payments. You may read through this article for more information: Understand which payments are excluded from a 1099-NEC and 1099-MISC.

However, if you really need this transaction to be reported in your 1099s, then you're correct that you'll have to generate a Journal Entry (JE). 

To make sure that it will be included in your 1099, you'll want to review the JE and check the vendor name should be included only on the line of your JE that contains the expense account, or any other account that represents the reportable payment to the vendor. If both the debit and credit lines include the vendor name, then both amounts will be picked up by the 1099 calculations and will zero each other out.

For more details about using the expense accounts you mapped to report 1099 transactions, please refer to Step 3 of this article: Troubleshoot missing contractors or wrong amounts on 1099s.

Additionally, here are a few helpful articles with more information about preparing 1099s in QBO:

• Get answers to your 1099 questions
• Create 1099 reports in QuickBooks

That should do it! Please let me know how it goes or if I can be of additional assistance with the 1099 forms by leaving a comment. I'm more than happy to lend a helping hand. Have a good day ahead!