Visa Reimagines Payment Acceptance for the ‘Click-and-Mortar’ Era 4/17/2024 Visa Acceptance Solutions helps accelerate growth for merchants with new digital enablement offerings “The payments sector has made significant strides in simplifying the consumer shopping experience.In doing so, the payments ecosystem has become more complex and fragmented for sellers — but it doesn’t have to be this way,” said Visa’s latest enhancements support merchants of all sizes with new and improved commerce experiences including: – Improved access to and ease of integration with partners: Visa Acceptance Platform is debuting Developer Assist, an AI-powered tool to help partners develop sophisticated payment flows, answer questions on testing and certification and even suggest sample code.The platform, which is used by more than 450 payment service providers (PSPs), connects to over 100 independent software vendors (ISVs), bringing ease of use to over 450,000 active merchants each month across 160 countries using 50 different currencies2.- A reimagined small and medium-sized (SMB) business platform: Authorize.nethas reimagined its user interface (UI), bringing data and streamlined day-to-day business operations to the forefront.The new UI has benefits for both partners and merchants across new dashboards, workspaces and smart search functionalities.- Growing mobile acceptance, without additional hardware: Tap to Phone, which allows sellers to accept contactless payments using a certified smartphone, is now live in 121 countries with more than 6.7 million active terminals and more than $8.5 billionin payment volume on a 12-month basis3.Visais also deploying contactless technology from Tap to Phone in new innovative ways, including [the recent pilot in](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcaribbean.visa.com%2Fabout-visa%2Fnewsroom%2Fpress-releases%2Fvisa-launches-payment-solution-in-latin-america-and-caribbean.html&esheet=53934839&newsitemid=20240417120478&lan=en-US&anchor=the+recent+pilot+in+Latin+America+and+the+Caribbean&index=1&md5=f5cda2483135e44e4d8c3e597d25736b)that allows consumers to tap their cards to their own device in order to pay for online purchases.
Latin Americaand the Caribbean “The past few years have had a profound and lasting impact on the commerce strategies for merchants of every shape and size.
Consumers desire immediacy and increasingly expect digitally evolved experiences.To keep pace with this trend, merchants are now looking for partners to help them simplify their ability to maintain connectivity to the ecosystem,” said One Expansive Ecosystem to Open Possibilities for Connectivity Visa Acceptance Solutions offers a level of connectivity and flexibility that businesses can’t build on their own without heavy technology investment, underscoring the importance of integrating digital and physical retail.
As a part of Visa’s value-added services, cloud-ready solutions like the Visa Acceptance Platform and Visa’s Tap to Phone payment solution have helped clients scale their businesses and tailor their payment systems to meet consumer needs.To learn more, visit [Visa Acceptance Solutions](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.visaacceptance.com%2Fen-us.html&esheet=53934839&newsitemid=20240417120478&lan=en-US&anchor=Visa+Acceptance+Solutions&index=2&md5=c9ce9d3276e63fd95152520e014e0810).
About [Visa.com](http://Visa.com).This Press Release is intended for illustrative purposes only.It contains depictions of a product currently in the process of deployment and should be understood as a representation of the potential features of the fully deployed product.The final version of this product may not contain all of the features described in this presentation.
This Press Release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the 1 2024 Global Digital Shopping Index, PYMNTS and Visa Acceptance Solutions All brand names, logos and/or trademarks are the property of their respective owners, are used for identification purposes only, and do not necessarily imply product endorsement or affiliation with 2 As of 3 As of View source version on [businesswire.com](http://businesswire.com): [https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240417120478/en/](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240417120478/en/) [[email protected]](/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#dabfa9b9b2bfbfa89aacb3a9bbf4b9b5b7) Source:.
