Check contractor status

A founder pays freelancers long before hiring anyone, and the question that costs money later is whether one of them was really an employee. This skill reads what Well already holds about a supplier: the purchase invoices over the last twelve months, how regular they are, whether the amount repeats, what share of your spend goes to that one name, which rail paid it, and the contract type where an employment contract record exists. It lays those facts out, then names the papers your country expects for that kind of supplier, as a checklist you confirm yourself. It gives no legal verdict and it files nothing.

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Is this freelancer really a freelancer?

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How the skill answers

Every step of the run, in order, with the card each one returns. A step that hands its work to another skill says which one.

  1. You ask

    Is this freelancer really a freelancer?

  2. Pin the workspaceSkill useddefine-workspace

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  4. Resolve the window
  5. Read the schema
  6. List the suppliers
  7. Narrow to the suppliers worth reading
  8. Read the purchase invoices per supplier
  9. Read the totals and the share
  10. Read the payment rail
  11. Read the contract record, where one exists
  12. Read what was written down, if anything
  13. Offer the contractor platform read only if asked
  14. State the facts, then the papers
  15. Refuse the classification, in the answer
  16. Show the rows
  17. If any required step errors or returns unusable data
  18. You get

    Categorize Counterparties

    A few counterparties need a category before the books can close.

    AWS avatar
    AWS6 transactions · €9,800.00
    Notion avatar
    Notion3 transactions · €6,200.00
    Vercel avatar
    Vercel4 transactions · €12,400.00
    Figma avatar
    Figma2 transactions · €7,600.00
    Slack avatar
    Slack2 transactions · €5,200.00

    2 counterparties still need a category: AWS, Notion.

    2 counterparties left

    The facts a requalification question turns on for one supplier: how often you pay them, whether the amounts repeat, what share of your spend they carry, and the contract type on file. The facts, stated; the call stays yours.

Frequently asked questions

Which forms does this cover?

United States: the W-9 you collect from the supplier, a written contract under New York's Freelance Isn't Free Act, and your own written classification file. Germany: the freelancer Vertrag and the supplier's Rechnung, the Statusfeststellung at the Deutsche Rentenversicherung, and the Künstlersozialabgabe where the supplier is a creative. Belgium: the freelance prestation contract, and the 30bis retention check for construction, cleaning, security and meat work only. Italy: the fattura elettronica carrying the ritenuta d'acconto, the comunicazione preventiva for occasional self-employed work, a co.co.co. contract under the Gestione Separata, and the DURC. Spain: the factura de autónomo with the IRPF retención, and the contrato TRADE. France: the contrat de prestation, the attestation de vigilance from a sous-traitant, and your suppliers' e-invoices. Of those, only the invoices are read from a document Well holds: the German Rechnung, the Italian fattura elettronica, the Spanish factura and the French supplier e-invoice, and only where they synced into your workspace as purchase invoices. Every other name on that list is named so you know what is due. Well cannot see whether you hold it.

Does Well file any of this for me?

No. Well never files with an authority. Not the Statusfeststellung, not the 30bis check, not the DURC, not the comunicazione preventiva, not a retención or a ritenuta return. The skill prepares the facts and names the portal. You or your bureau file.

Does it tell me whether someone is really an employee?

No, and it will refuse to. It states observed facts: how many invoices, over how many months, whether the amounts repeat, what share of your spend, what contract type exists where a record exists. Reading those facts as a classification is a decision for you and your advisor.

Can it tell me whether I have a W-9 or an attestation on file?

No. Documents in Well carry no supplier link, and there is no document type for a W-9, an attestation de vigilance, a DURC or a Statusfeststellung. The paper list is a checklist you confirm against your own drawer, never a coverage report Well computed.

Does it compute the withholding?

No. The ritenuta d'acconto, the IRPF retención and the Künstlersozialabgabe levy are named as obligations that apply, never calculated. The invoice lines carry no withheld amount, so any figure here would be invented.

Does it read my contractor platform?

Only if you ask, and only with your say-so on the turn. A contractor platform's contract and people lists are treated as a consequential call rather than a plain read, so this skill runs on invoices, transactions and contract records by default. A supplier missing from that platform is never reported as unmanaged.

Does it prepare a 1099 or a year-end contractor statement?

No. There is no 1099, DAS2 or fiche 281.50 preparation here. For what you paid each supplier over a year, ranked, ask for the supplier spend register instead.

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