IRISfile is a flat-rate 1099 e-filing service that converts FIRE, CSV, and Excel files to IRS IRIS XML and files them for tax professionals.
Upload the same fixed-width Pub 1220 file you sent to FIRE. IRISfile parses and validates every record, then writes IRIS XML to the IRS Pub 5718 schema.
Upload a spreadsheet of 1099 records instead of a FIRE file. IRISfile validates each row and produces the same IRIS XML, plus an IRIS Portal CSV for forms the Portal accepts.
Every upload returns a record-by-record list of errors and warnings before any XML is written. Records IRISfile cannot file yet are listed in the results, never dropped.
IRISfile submits IRIS XML to the IRS through the A2A API under its own Transmitter Control Code. A2A filing covers 1099-NEC, MISC, INT, DIV, and R, and goes live for the 2027 filing season.
Tax1099, Track1099, and TaxBandits charge for each return filed. IRISfile Starter is $79 a month for up to 500 forms a season, and every tier is a flat monthly rate.
IRISfile files under the PixelCove IRIS Transmitter Control Code, which the IRS approved in April 2026. Your practice and your clients skip the IRS TCC application and its wait of up to 45 days.
IRISfile reads the Pub 1220 fixed-width format directly. The file your system already exports for FIRE becomes IRIS XML with no re-keying.
IRISfile writes XML only for the forms it can file correctly today, and validates that XML against the IRS schema. Other records are reported back to you by name.
On Pro and above, a file with many payer EINs splits into one filing per client. Each client gets its own XML, its own validation results, and its own records.
Jon has worked in enterprise SEO for more than 20 years, for Lands’ End, Foot Locker, and Chase. He started PixelCove LLC in Andover, Massachusetts, in 2025. Jon on LinkedIn
Scott is Vice President of Business Process at SX Business Services, an outsourced real estate accounting firm in Norwood, Massachusetts. He shapes IRISfile around the 1099 files that property management accounting produces, including Yardi and RealPage exports.
Jon and Scott started IRISfile in April 2026. The IRS is shutting down the FIRE filing system on December 31, 2026, and every 1099 transmitter has to move to IRIS. The tools on the market charged per form, which made high-volume practices pay the most. IRISfile is PixelCove’s first vertical product: one flat rate for the whole season.
Jon builds the software with the AI agent systems PixelCove built in-house. Scott sets its requirements from the accounting side. About PixelCove
PixelCove LLC operates IRISfile. Jon Gouveia and Scott Anderson co-founded it in April 2026. PixelCove is the named IRS transmitter on every submission.
IRISfile is based in Andover, Massachusetts. It serves 1099 filers across the United States.
Yes. The IRS approved the PixelCove IRIS Transmitter Control Code in April 2026. IRISfile customers file under it and do not need their own.
The IRS shuts down FIRE on December 31, 2026. From January 1, 2027, IRIS is the only IRS system that accepts 1099 e-filing.
Submission records stay available to you for at least 4 years, the IRS recordkeeping window. After that they are purged.
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