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2024

February 2024

Product Updates


New Products:

  • Visa Subscription Manager: Visa Subscription Manager can help provide cardholders with transparency, ease and control over managing their finances through their issuer’s mobile application, potentially eliminating the need to contact the issuer call center.
    • Visa Subscription Manager API
    • Availability: Public
  • Visa Digital Enablement Lite: Generate the VDE Lite app URLs to launch Push provisioning in App clips and Instant apps.
    • URL Generation API
    • Availability: Public

New APIs:

  • Visa BIN Attribute Sharing Service: Enables eligible Visa clients and partners to look up the most current Visa BIN Information
    • VBASS Files Metadata: Files Metadata API for Visa BIN Attribute Sharing Service
    • VBASS File Transfer: File Transfer API for Visa BIN Attribute Sharing Service
    • Availability: Public
  • Visa Tokenized Asset Platform(Visa Crypto API):
    • VTAP API: A suite of B2B APIs which enable partner Financial Institutions to tokenize their deposits, interact with offchain Visa services, and leverage blockchain infrastructure to make P2P, P2B, B2B payments within the bank, as well as external to other banks.
      • APIs: Get Token Scheme Event details, Create Token Scheme Event, Get Token Scheme details, Get Payment details, Update Customer, Get Customer, Get Wallet by Alias, Create Token Scheme, Get Customer Wallet, Create Payment, Create Wallet, Register Customer, Update Wallet
      • Availability: Restricted
  • VisaNet Connect – Acceptance:
    • Mobile Drivers License API: Mobile Drivers License Verification
      • Validate Signature: Verify signature and MSO
      • Availability: Restricted

New Outbound API:

  • Token Service Provider SaaS: An end-to-end SaaS solution enabling the generation, issuance, and management of network tokenization
    • Token Requestor API – Outbound: The Token Requestor (TR) - Outbound API provides token requestors with the capability to receive notifications from the Token Service Provider during the complete life cycle of the token.
      • Card Metadata Update: This message is used to notify token requestor about an update of the card metadata. To obtain the new card metadata, the token requestor can send Get Card Metadata request.
      • Bundle Ready Notification: This message is used to notify the token requestor that bundle is ready. After this the token requestor needs to send Get Payment Bundle to fetch the bundle.
      • Token State Change Notification: This message is used to notify the token requestor about a token state change.
      • Task Status Event Notification: This event is a status notification for async task-related events.
      • Transaction History: This message is used to notify token requestor about a performed payment transaction with the token. To obtain the actual transaction records, the token requestor can send Get Transaction History request.
      • Availability: Restricted

New Endpoints:

  • Visa Token ServiceA security technology from Visa that replaces sensitive account information, such as the 16-digit primary account number, with a unique digital identifier called a token.
    • Device Enrollment
      • New Endpoint: dpeDeviceEnrollment
      • Availability: Restricted
  • Token Service Provider SaaS:  An end-to-end SaaS solution enabling the generation, issuance, and management of network tokenization
    • Issuer Webservice API - Outbound
      • New Endpoint: Transaction Notification To Issuer
      • Availability: Restricted
  • DPS Forward Services: The best of Visa DPS issuer processing capabilities accessible through a suite of APIs designed for digital banking platforms
    • Token Services:
      • New Endpoint: Retrieve Token Details 
        • Use this API to get detailed token data for a specified token using the cardId, tokenRequestorId, and tokenReferenceId.
      • Availability: Restricted

New Endpoint Version:

  • Visa Global ATM LocatorEnables cardholders to search for Visa/Plus ATM locations around the world, via the Web or from their internet-enabled mobile devices
    • Locate ATMs API:
      • Find Geocodes: Returns the pair of latitude and longitude based on the input address
      • Availability: Public

API Visibility Change:

Product Visibility Change

  • Visa Direct request to pay: A secure messaging solution that gives the ability for payees to request a payment from payers via a secure digital message
    • Changed from Restricted to Public

January 2024

Product Updates


New Products:

  • Visa Consent Management Service: Visa is developing a Consent Specification, agnostic to any organization, supporting both flexibility and interoperability along with APIs, Widget SDKs and Admin UI to manage consent for Visa Customers
    • Visa Consent Management API: Enables the capture and management of consumer consents, enforcement of consents governance rules, and auditing of consent-related actions
    • Availability: Restricted   

New APIs:

  • Token Service Provider SaaS: An end-to-end SaaS solution enabling the generation, issuance, and management of network tokenization
    • Token Requestor API - Inbound: The Token Requestor (TR) API provides token requestors with the capability to manage tokens stored within the Token Service Provider SaaS (TSP SaaS). 
      • Get Payment Bundle: This message is used to retrieve payment bundles during asynchronous provisioning and during synchronous and asynchronous replenishment and during IN-APP transaction depending on the use case.
      • Get Task Status: This API is used to get the status of a task.
      • Tokenize: This message is used to create a token for a given PAN or account.
      • Get Tokens: This message is used by the token requestor to retrieve basic token information for all tokens that are linked to a specific walletID or a specific consumerID or a given PAN.
      • Request Life Cycle Management: This message is used to suspend, resume or delete tokens to change tokens between the following statuses, ACTIVE, SUSPENDED, DELETED. Tokens can be moved between ACTIVE and SUSPENDED.
      • Token Status Inquiry: This message is used to obtain the status of a token.
      • Get Async Token Provisioning Result: This API is used to get the result of Async Token Provisioning.
      • Get Card Metadata: This message is used to retrieve card metadata, token metadata. This is typically used when the token requestor has been notified of a card metadata update.
      • Get Asset: This message is used to retrieve one static asset from the TR API such as card art images, payment scheme or issuers' logos and terms and conditions.
      • Ping: This message is used to determine whether the server providing the described web service, the database and the HSM are online (or reachable).
      • Provision Completion: This message is used (1) by the Token Requestor to inform that the provisioning has been completed or (2) to inform the Token Requestor that the provisioning has been completed or (3) to inform the Token Requestor that the re-perso has been completed.
      • Get Transaction History: This message is used by the token requestor to obtain the transaction history for a given token.
      • Check Eligibility: This message is used to check card availability and possible device eligibility. Besides, it enables the end-user to accept the issuing bank's terms and conditions before tokenization.
      • Availability: Restricted
  • Visa Business Data SolutionsProvides a faster and efficient way for participating issuers and their commercial clients to pull their commercial transaction data and make strategic decisions based on data-driven insights
    • VCS Enrollment API: The API is used to onboard and register companies, users and cards in Commercial Space.
      • VCS Registration: The Register endpoint is used for registration of corporate companies, cards, users and association between user and card. For the request to be valid, we need company details and primary card
      • VCS Registration: The Register endpoint is used to add additional cards and users and provide associations required
      • Get Status: The API is used to get the current status of the user being registered using VCS Registration API.
      • Availability: Public
  • B2B Virtual Account Payment MethodA suite of APIs that enable the use of virtual accounts for automating supplier payments and other employee spend.
    • Workflows: Workflows.
      • Payments Recipe: Composite API which handles process, resend and cancel payments.
      • Get Payment Details – Recipe: Get Payment details recipe API
      • Availability: Public

New Outbound API:

  • Visa Direct Request to Pay (Visa RTX):
    • Request To Pay (Outbound Bundle): Request to Pay Outbound
      • Notifications R2P: Notifications for Request to Pay
      • Availability: Public

Product Name Change: