What is Addison?
Addison is an accounting and tax management platform that helps businesses and tax professionals streamline their financial workflows. It brings together tools for finance, payroll, invoicing, controlling, and document management in one integrated system.
How can Addison be useful for business owners?
Platform for Finance, HR, and Document Management: Addison consolidates essential business workflows—including financial accounting, payroll management, controlling, invoicing, and tax preparation.
Automated Workflows: Built around intuitive workflows, Addison automates tasks like document capture, invoice approvals, payroll processing, and more.
Cloud-Ready, Secure, and Compliance-Focused: With scalable cloud deployment options and advanced data protection, Addison delivers high performance and resilience. It supports compliance with regulatory requirements such as German e-invoicing standards.
How can I integrate my Vivid Business with Addison?
Open ADDISON OneClick portal: Log in to your portal. You’ll first land on your personal homepage.
Go to Online Banking: Click the “Manage Online Banking” tile to open ADDISON OneClick Online Banking.
Online Banking home screen: You’ll now see the online banking start page.
Select or add an account: If your tax advisor has already provided accounts, they’ll appear under “My Accounts.” Click one to activate it, or select +Add Account to set up a new one.
Open account master data: After selecting the account, you’ll be taken to its master data view.
Enable statement sharing: Tick the box “Provide bank statements for the tax advisor.”
Start setup: Click Start Setup in the bottom-right corner to launch the setup wizard.
Confirm master data: Review the displayed information and click Next.
Select additional accounts (if any): If you have multiple accounts with the same bank, you can enable them here and allow statement sharing.
Redirect to finAPI: A message will appear about redirection to finAPI (a BaFin-registered provider). Confirm by clicking “YES.”
Enter your Vivid Business email: Provide the email address you used to register your Vivid Business account.
Log in to Vivid Business: You’ll be redirected to the Vivid Business login page. Sign in with your credentials.
Choose your money account(s): Select the Vivid Business money account(s) you want to integrate with ADDISON.
finAPI retrieval: finAPI will now start retrieving your bank details.
Return to ADDISON: Once the accounts are displayed, click “Back to Application” to return to ADDISON OneClick Online Banking, or add more accounts.
Verify activation: Go to “My Bank Details” in the side menu. If a card icon with a checkmark and the current balance are visible, the activation was successful.
That’s it! Your Vivid Business account is now connected to ADDISON OneClick, and your transactions will sync automatically for use in bookkeeping and collaboration with your tax advisor.