• Visa DPS - A new open platform that gives our clients and partners access to Visa’s payments technology, products and services. Refer to Visa DPS for more details.
• Device Data - When a user visits your web or mobile application, Device Data enables you to create a unique device profile using IP address, browser, operating system, and other attributes from the browsing session. Device Data will analyze these attributes against a risk assessment policy, which you select based on your use case, and return risk assessment results that can be used to help you make an authentication decision. Refer to Device Data for more details.
• Visa Supplier Matching Services - Visa Supplier Matching Service is now available in three new countries Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.
• Merchant Search and Merchant Locator - Merchant Search and Merchant Locator APIs are now available in Canada. 

Visa Developer Community - If you are logged into Visa Developer, you are no longer required to sign in again for the Visa Developer Community.

• Visa Cardholder Purchase Inquiry - Visa Cardholder Purchase Inquiry (VCPI) provides issuers with a self-service model for their cardholders to review transaction specifics sent by participating merchants. Refer to Visa Cardholder Purchase Inquiry for more details.
• Card-On-File Data Inquiry - To improve the API discoverability and make the API functionality more clear to our clients, Visa Account Management Suite (VAMS) has been re-branded as Card-On-File Data Inquiry. Refer to Card-On-File Data Inquiry for details.
• B2B Virtual Account Payment Method - You can now find an exhaustive list of error codes pertaining to all B2B Virtual Account Payment Method APIs on the B2B Virtual Account Payment Method Error Codes page. The codes are organized by API. 
• Visa Direct - Visa Direct now offers a  new set of Alias APIs (i.e. Create Merchant Alias, Get Merchant Alias, Update Merchant Alias and Delete Merchant Alias) has been launched that enables acquirers to perform life cycle management of aliases used by their merchants to receive merchant payments and cash-out payments. Refer to Visa Direct Docs for more details.

• DigiCert CA Certificate - If you created a project prior to Sept. 11, 2018, and downloaded the GeoTrust Global CA certificate signed by Symantec to your truststore, please note Symantec has announced it will no longer be acting as a root certificate authority. To avoid service interruption, please add DigiCert Root CA to your truststore using this link: https://dl.cacerts.digicert.com/DigiCertGlobalRootCA.crt.
• Return on Investment Calculator - You can now view the ROI calculator to input your data and see how using Visa Merchant Purchase Inquiry could benefit you. Refer to Visa Merchant Purchase Inquiry for details.

• VisaNet Data Services - VisaNet Data Services assist Issuer and Acquirer and their processors with the data values to support creation of clearing files, correction of rejected transactions and appropriate interpretation and categorization of transaction data. Refer to VisaNet Data Services for more details.
• Visa Supplier Matching Service - Visa Supplier Matching Service now offers Bulk API that helps you easily identify your suppliers submitted within a bulk file that already accepts Visa Commercial Card. Refer to Visa Supplier Matching Service docs for more details.
• Visa Direct - Visa Direct now offers Alias API that enables push payments using a commonly known identifier such as mobile number and email address instead of sensitive data of PAN to a Visa account. This is currently available only in select markets. Please contact your Visa representative for more information. For details on how to use Alias as an identifier, refer to Visa Direct Docs.

• Outbound Configuration - Visa Developer now provides an option to delete the Outbound Configuration. Refer to Outbound Configuration > Deleting Outbound Configuration for more details
• Going Live with Foreign Exchange Rates API - Go to market faster using Foreign Exchange Rates API. If you are only using Foreign Exchange Rates API in your project, you can now complete and submit all Going Live tasks at one time, including price acceptance and contract completion and signing. You will be prompted to initiate contract completion and signing during the Going Live flow from the Visa Developer dashboard. Once the signed contract is uploaded to Visa Developer you can complete your project submission. 
  
  Disclaimer: This contract has no binding effect for Visa until Visa provides Company with a countersigned version of the contract.
• FAQs - You can now view several new FAQs on Certificate Expiration on the VDP Support page.

Visa Token Service Provisioning and Lifecycle Management

Visa Network Hub Push Provision (NHPP) is a key capability which allows issuers to proactively push cards issued to the cardholder, into Token Requestors’ (TRs) or Card-on-File (COF) Merchant applications chosen by the cardholder. Refer to Visa Token Service Provisioning and Lifecycle Management docs for more details.

• Certificate Expiration - For all Two-Way SSL (Mutual Authentication) projects, inbound credentials have an expiration date. Once it is about to expire, you can request for a new set of credentials. Refer to Certificate Expiration for more details.
  
  Note: This is only available in the sandbox environment.
• Browse All APIs New Page Design - You can now view all Visa APIs or sort to find the APIs that meet your specific needs using our newly designed Browse All page.

• User Data - User Data API allows you to compare customer-provided information with verified data sources to help confirm name, physical address, email address, and phone numbers (VoIP, mobile, home). Potential uses include client onboarding, digital wallet provisioning, 3-D Secure authentication, and more. Refer to the User Data Overview for more details.
  
  Note: This API is restricted and requires approval to access technical documentation. To request access, please contact [email protected].
• Visa Offers Platform - Visa Offers Platform (VOP) provides partners access to qualified Visa transaction data of enrolled cardholders. With this release, VOP is adding 6 new APIs to the existing suite of APIs:
  • Merchant Search API that allows clients to search unique merchant ids based on different merchant attributes.
  • Transaction Search API that allows clients to search the transaction of enrolled user on different transaction attributes.
  • 4 APIs that can be used to query user, offer, activation and deactivation metadata. 
    Note: These API are restricted and require approval to access technical documentation. To request access, please contact [email protected].

• Going Live with Visa Developer Project - Visa Developer now has a new process called Going Live that allows you to for promote your project from the sandbox to the certification or production environment. To submit your project to Visa for review and approval, simply go to the dashboard and select Going Live. The dashboard walks you through the detailed steps and processes to complete the application for the credentials for your project. Based on your profile and your project’s use case, you will be asked to provide specific details that will help Visa evaluate your request.
  
  Refer to Going Live with Visa Developer for details.
• Outbound Configuration - Visa Developer now provides you the ability to register and activate your outbound configuration used by Visa Transaction Controls. Once your outbound configuration is approved for a project, Visa Developer’s automated workflow engine provides you certificates used to ensure secure message delivery.
  
  Refer to Outbound Configuration for more details

Visa Data Privacy Request Manager

The Visa Data Privacy Request Manager APIs provide support to Visa Client Issuers and Acquirers in relation to Data Subject Rights (DSR) requests, in particular in relation to requests made under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Refer to Visa Data Privacy Request Manager for details.

• Visa Checkout - In addition to working with a processor or PSP,  you can now create a relationship with a Visa Checkout partner, granting the partner access to manage Visa Checkout on your behalf. These partners have already integrated with Visa Checkout and, depending on your needs, can provide integration and operational expertise to access and manage your Visa Checkout configuration and/or handle transactions for you.
  
  A Visa Checkout partner provides Visa Checkout services on behalf of merchants. You can manage the Visa Checkout relationship and offer services to match your expertise. Refer to Visa Checkout Docs for more details on how to create a partner relationship and how to become a partner. 
• Visa Token Service - This API is now restricted and requires approval to access technical documentation. To request access, please contact [email protected].

Visa Developer now offers a use case section that explains how Visa APIs can be leveraged. Check out real-world scenarios for using Visa APIs and see how API functionality could solve business problems. This section will continue to grow as more use cases are introduced.

Refer to the Use Cases landing page to view a list of the current Visa API use cases with a summary.

New Use Cases Launched:

• Enroll, Travel and Transact - Cardholder enrolls in Mobile Location Confirmation service, travels to a new location and confidently makes a purchase transaction. Refer to Enroll, Travel and Transact for details.
• Set Notice Online, Travel and Transact - Cardholder sets a travel notice through mobile banking app or online banking, travels to reported destination, and confidently makes a purchase transaction. Refer to Set Notice Online, Travel and Transact for details.
• Set Notice by Phone, Travel and Transact - Cardholder sets a travel notice by calling issuer’s call center, travels to reported destination, and confidently makes a purchase transaction. Refer to Set Notice Phone, Travel and Transact for details.

• Visa Merchant Purchase Inquiry - Visa Merchant Purchase Inquiry provides Visa merchants the ability to respond to cardholder inquiries around unrecognized transactions (and other dispute categories) PRIOR to a chargeback/dispute by providing relevant supplemental merchant information, in close to real-time.
  
  Refer to Visa Merchant Purchase Inquiry docs for details.
• CyberSource Payments - CyberSource Payments APIs Version 2 is now available for public consumption. Refer to CyberSource Payments docs for details. Version 1 is now restricted.  If you have any queries, contact [email protected].
• Visa Transaction Alerts - Visa Transaction Alerts (VTA) APIs are now contained within Visa Transaction Controls, allowing more flexibility and additional features, all while reducing needed APIs and development. The VTA APIs are no longer available on Visa Developer Center.  If you have any queries, contact [email protected].
• Visa Direct - Refund API and Query API  are no longer restricted APIs. Linked API Version 1 is now restricted.  Transaction emulator that facilitates developers to perform self-service testing of Receive Side Callback API is now available for public consumption. There are some changes in the API references of Funds Transfer API, mVisa API and Receive Side Callback API.
  
  Refer to Visa Direct docs for details.

Visa Sensory Branding

In a digital world where payment experiences are increasingly automatic and invisible, delivering consumer confidence in a payment transaction can be a challenge. Visa Sensory Branding is a suite of sensory brand marks (animation, sound, and haptic) created for such environments on web, mobile, and physical retail point of sale. The Visa brand universally signifies trust, security, and an understanding of available payment options, and these sensory cues were designed to evoke the same emotions that a traditional Visa brand mark would in a physical payment experience. 

Refer to Visa Sensory Branding docs for details.