Businesses

At FIS® Accounting Data as a Service™, a business refers to an entity that shares access to its data. Each business can have multiple data connections to different service providers such as one connection to accounting data and one or more connections to bank accounts. Businesses are often represented by your customers.

Businesses are uniquely identified by their business name, denoted by businessName.

Creating a Business

Businesses can be created in one of four ways:

1. Using the POST /businesses endpoint in the Accounting Data as a Service™ API.
2. Using Accounting Data as a Service™ Connect by providing the businessName parameter.
3. Using Accounting Data as a Service™ Sites Onboard Link
4. Using the Accounting Data as a Service™ Dashboard

Restrictions on Business Names

If you don't provide a business name when loading Accounting Data as a Service™ Connect in your client-side app, Connect will auto-generate a unique identifier as the business name.

Business Names must be:

• Unique
• At least 2 characters long
• A maximum of 40 characters long
• Should not contain any of the following special characters {% [ ] \ * | ( ) { } "}

Business Statuses

Each business has a status that can be one of the following values:

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New Business Lifecycle & Auto Deletion Policy

1. Businesses created using Connect without a connection, will appear in the Dashboard or the GET /businesses endpoint as new for 24 hours. After 24 hours, these businesses will automatically be deleted. This is to prevent an influx of businesses without a connection in your business list.
2. Businesses created without a connection using the following methods: POST /businesses API endpoint, Dashboard and Sites Onboarding Link, will appear in the Dashboard or through the GET /businesses endpoint as new. Businesses created through this method will not be auto deleted.