Creating new ways to pay and be paid

Work with Visa to upgrade your payment solutions

Visa + acquirers

Partner with Visa to develop new products and services that offer smarter payments solutions.

Visa chip card technology

Person using a Visa payWave debit card at a payment terminal.

Enhanced security for a smarter world

As the chip market grows, you need to keep up. Visa has led the world in the global adoption of chip cards and we are ready to use our expertise to help your business offer chip technology.

Learn about chip card technology for acquirers

Data security

Protecting cardholder data

Visa acquirers, issuers and their sponsored agents, processors and/or service providers working to store, process or transmit card data must comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

Learn about PCI DSS compliance

Learn more about Visa security

Services + solutions

Visa Performance Solutions

Acquirers play a critical role within the global payments infrastructure, and we are in a unique position to offer services, solutions and insights that contribute to your success. We work with you to expand your merchant portfolio, increase acceptance and reduce merchant attrition.

Learn about Visa Performance Solutions

Visa Integrated Redemption Platform

Integrated Redemption enables fast redemption of offers at point of sale to improve the consumer experience. Prices are reduced in real time as part of the authorization flow and consumers are notified at check out via receipt, SMS or email.

Manage retail promotions across all retail outlets using a consistent redemption process
Enable all offer programs with a single redemption method
Track and measure program success with consolidated reporting

Learn about Integrated Redemption

Visa Data Secure Platform

Visa DSP is made up of hardware and software point-to-point encryption (P2PE) and tokenization.

This can help reduce PCI compliance costs by protecting data in flight and at rest.

Deliver a standardized network solution for securing payments across all participants
Use tokenization to track sales data across retail locations and limit access to sensitive cardholder data
Combine P2PE and tokenization to minimize fraud.

Learn about Data Secure

Visa Accelerated Connection Platform

Accelerated Connection enables acquirers to offer merchants faster access to payment innovation. A flexible XML API connects POS terminals or payment gateways to the Visa payment network.

Leverage existing merchant POS technology to support real-time offer redemption
Deploy point-to-point encryption and tokenization to secure consumer data
Support rollout and activation of mPOS solutions in new verticals and markets

Learn about Accelerated Connection

Mobile payment solutions

Merchant using a mobile phone to complete a transaction

Innovating mobile payment

Start offering point-of-sale solutions to enable acceptance of NFC and HCE mobile payments.

Learn about Visa Ready mobile payment solutions

Resources

Your source for information, tools, and support

Visa Online is a business-to-business extranet channel providing information to companies who do business with Visa. You’ll find product information, promotional materials, market research, best practices, training, interactive tools and implementation guidelines.