Becoming a Partner

As a partner of Visa, you have access to a range of solutions that can help you grow your business and offer your customers more ways to pay. You can leverage Visa's global network, innovative products, and trusted brand to enhance your value proposition and drive revenue.
Visa Acceptance Solutions are designed to meet the diverse needs of different types of partners and their end customers. You can choose from a variety of options depending on your business model, target market, and integration preferences. Some of the benefits of partnering with Visa include:
  • Access to the world's largest payment network, reaching over 200 countries and territories.
  • Ability to offer your customers multiple payment methods, including contactless, mobile, online, and in-app payments.
  • Opportunity to leverage Visa's expertise, resources, and tools to support your business growth and innovation.
  • Exposure to Visa's extensive network of merchants, acquirers, issuers, and other partners.
The Visa Acceptance Solutions portfolio is categorized by the brands you can work with. Each brand represents a different way of integrating with Visa and delivering payment solutions to your customers. The three main brands are:
  • Visa Acceptance Platform
  • Cybersource
  • Authorize.Net

Key Information

The Visa Acceptance Partnership program encompasses multiple partner offerings, all of whom have an important role in allowing customers to transact in a simple and efficient manner. The following section introduces you to the main partner structures and their key features.
Enablement Partners
Integrate your offerings into our platform and build innovative, custom payment solutions for your merchants. For guidance on what this entails and how to apply, see below:
Reseller Partners
Sell our solutions directly to your merchants with the option to deliver them under your brand. For guidance on what this entails and how to apply, see below:
Referral Partners
The lowest level of commitment and an easy way to diversify your revenue streams: Just refer merchants to Visa Acceptance Solutions so they can build great payments experiences. For guidance on what this entails and how to apply, see below:
Authorize.Net Partners
Complement your own merchant account offering with our Authorize.Net payment gateway. We deliver a competitive buy rate, and you set the pricing for your customers. We then offer residuals on the difference in the buy and sell rate monthly.
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Tech Partner Requirements

To join the Visa Acceptance partnership ecosystem, the following steps are required before development can commence.
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Develop Your Integration

This is a high-level overview of the available integration models and offer supporting resources such as SDKs and developer forums.
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The Partner Directory

The Partner Directory serves as a public platform for you to showcase your solutions as a Visa Acceptance Platform-integrated partner. This platform is designed to highlight your offerings, enabling you to stand out and demonstrate how your solutions integrate with the Visa Acceptance Platform. This is an excellent opportunity to increase your visibility to merchants and acquirers looking for technology partners to realize new projects.
The Partner Directory is a public-facing platform. Its primary function is to facilitate connections between Acceptance Solutions ISV and technology partners and VPC-connected acquirers.
After you have a fully developed integration, you can list your offering on the Partner Directory (Coming Soon).
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Frequently Asked Questions

How do I sign up for the partner portal?
You can sign up at this link: cybersource.partner-experience.com/login. You will receive a portal approval and login credentials will be emailed within 2-5 business days.
What does the partner portal contain?
The Visa Acceptance Solutions partner portal is a self-service resource to help partners to be successful in maximizing mutual partnership value. The portal will enable you to access helpful product and thought leadership content, take training on our products, register referral leads (only for referral partners), view our event calendar, and (now) edit your Directory listing.
How many users can we have in the partner portal?
As many as you see fit! However, we do ask that you designate only two users as Directory Editors.
What if I have future edits to my listing?
If you’d like to make changes to your partner listing, you may follow the same process. You can log back into the partner portal, make edits to your Profile page, and request a review by our Visa team.
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Contact Information

Contact your Visa partner representative for details or register your interest at one of these pages:
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