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Release Notes

These release notes cover all releases to the production server for the week ending
January 9, 2026
.

Announcements

These are the announcements for
January 9, 2026
.

Webhooks Updates

Webhooks version 1 will be decommissioned in April 2026. See Webhooks version 2 in the Developer Center.

Email Notifications

A new risk-mitigation feature will be introduced for Visa Acceptance Platform customers in the near future. When a merchant's business information or contact information is updated, the system will automatically send an email notification to the designated business contact for that account. This applies to updates performed using either the Business Center or an API.
Legacy customers already receive a similar email notification alert for boarding registration and account information changes, as well as status updates. This upcoming release will include a modification to that email format to ensure a more consistent display with branding support for all customers. The email format will match the email sent to Visa Acceptance Platform customers to support a seamless transition when legacy customers migrate to Visa Acceptance Platform.
For Visa Acceptance Platform customers, the email notification will not be sent for status or boarding registration-related events.

Features Introduced This Week

Unified Checkout
 | RM-41346 and RM-41387

Description
This release in the Business Center allows portfolio accounts and transacting merchant accounts to be enabled for Unified Checkout and its features. Portfolio users can see additional features. This functionality was already available for the API.
Mandate
Does not apply.
Audience
Portfolio account users.
Benefit
Unified Checkout is a hosted payment solution that provides a single integrated interface for accepting a wide range of digital payments directly on a merchant's ecommerce page. It is designed to reduce checkout friction, enhance security, and increase sales conversions.
Technical Details
None.
Important Dates
Released to production January 6, 2026.

Merchant Boarding
 | RM-40886

Description
This release enables Payouts as a card type on the merchant boarding template for merchants that process through VPC.
Mandate
Not applicable.
Audience
Portfolio users who board merchants with VPC as their processor.
Benefit
Enabling Payouts provides an additional payment option for merchants.
Technical Details
Enable Payouts at the portfolio level and check the Payouts box in the Processor section.
Important Dates
Released to production January 7, 2026.

Invoicing
 | RM-40845

Description
This release enables merchants to use these optional capabilities:
  • Set an expiration date when you create or edit invoices.
  • Extend expiration dates on existing invoices.
When an invoice payment link expires, the status of the link does not automatically change from
Active
to
Inactive
. The link remains in its current state, but the expiration message appears when the expired link is accessed.
When a customer attempts to access an expired invoice payment link, they receive a message stating that the link is expired. The message also directs the customer to contact the business that issued the link.
When this feature is released, expiration dates will not be applied automatically to existing invoices. Merchants can manually update expiration dates on existing invoice payment links.
Mandate
Does not apply.
Audience
Merchants who use invoicing.
Benefit
Setting an expiration date for an invoice payment link can prevent unauthorized payments. Unauthorized payments can occur when a link remains accessible or relies on manual deactivation.
Technical Details
To configure an invoice payment link expiration date, go to the
Pay by Link
 module in the Business Center, create a new link or edit an existing link, and configure the expiration date field. If a customer needs more time to complete a payment, the merchant can update expiration dates on the existing invoice payment link.
Important Dates
Released to production January 8, 2026.

Pay By Link
 | RM-40845

Description
This release enables merchants to use these optional capabilities:
  • Set an expiration date when you create or edit payment links.
  • Extend expiration dates on existing payment links.
When a payment link expires, the status of the link does not automatically change from
Active
to
Inactive
. The link remains in its current state, but the expiration message appears when the expired link is accessed.
When a customer attempts to access an expired payment link, they receive a message stating that the link is expired. The message also directs the customer to contact the business that issued the link.
When this feature is released, expiration dates will not be applied automatically to existing payment links. Merchants can manually update expiration dates on existing payment links.
Mandate
Does not apply.
Audience
Merchants who use Pay By Link.
Benefit
Setting an expiration date for a payment link can prevent unauthorized payments. Unauthorized payments can occur when a link remains accessible or relies on manual deactivation.
Technical Details
To configure a payment link expiration date, go to the
Pay by Link
 module in the Business Center, create a new link or edit an existing link, and configure the expiration date field. If a customer needs more time to complete a payment, the merchant can update expiration dates on the existing payment link.
Important Dates
Released to production January 5, 2026.

Webhooks
 | RM-40845

Description
A webhook notification can be sent to merchants and independent software vendors when invoices or payment links are created in the Business Center.
Merchants must subscribe to an Invoicing or Pay by Link creation event to receive the Webhook notifications.
Mandate
Does not apply.
Audience
Benefit
Merchants and independent software vendors can integrate the Invoicing or Pay by Link webhooks as a trigger that begins their business processes.
Technical Details
None.
Important Dates
Released to production January 5, 2026.

Salesforce Commerce Cloud

Description
This release adds Unified Checkout to Salesforce Commerce Cloud.
Mandate
Does not apply.
Audience
Users of Salesforce Commerce Cloud.
Benefit
Unified Checkout is a hosted payment solution that provides a single integrated interface for accepting a wide range of digital payments directly on a merchant's ecommerce page. It is designed to reduce checkout friction, enhance security, and increase sales conversions.
Technical Details
None.
Important Dates
Released to production January 6, 2026.

Merchant Boarding
 | RM-39965

Description
Portfolio merchants who use Prisma and the Visa Acceptance Platform can now board merchants using the Business Center's Merchant Management feature.
Mandate
Does not apply.
Audience
Portfolio merchants who use Prisma and the Visa Acceptance Platform.
Benefit
Merchant management enables partners and resellers to board and manage their merchant accounts in a streamlined online interface instead of using the API.
Technical Details
No action is required by merchants.
Important Dates
Released to production Janaury 5, 2026.

Merchant Boarding in Japan
 | RM-40408

Description
This release enables portfolio merchants to enter a shop name during merchant boarding in three new languages: Japanese, Romaji, and Katakana, for portfolios that are enabled for CSKK.
Mandate
Does not apply.
Audience
Portfolios that are CSKK-enabled.
Benefit
Additional language enable additional flexibility in naming shops.
Technical Details
No action is required.
Important Dates
Released to production January 5, 2026.

Transaction Search
 | RM-39799

Description
Searching by token ID will now show more API events related to that token, including creation, updates, retrievals, and deletions, in addition to the existing view of payments and other service calls made using the token.
Mandate
Does not apply.
Audience
Merchants who use the Token Management System.
Benefit
Additional details about token events.
Technical Details
None.
Important Dates
Released to production January 5, 2026.

Fixed Issues

No customer-facing fixes were released this week.

Known Issues

Transaction Search
 | EPS-34742

Description
When merchants load a saved search that contains more than one filter, only one filter is shown. The other filters are blank or missing.
Audience
Merchants who use Transaction Search.
Technical Details
None.
Workaround
None.

Virtual Terminal
 | EPS-35660

Description
If a merchant is generating reports by filtering
Client Application
 with
UBC Virtual Terminal
 or
Legacy Virtual Terminal
 options, they will not see Virtual Terminal transactions in the reports.
Audience
Merchants who use the legacy Virtual Terminal for payment transactions.
Technical Details
The transactions use the value
UBC Virtual Terminal
, but the filter option in the report setting is
Legacy Virtual Terminal
. As a result, it falsely appears that transactions are missing in the reports.
Workaround
Until the issue is fixed, do not use the
Legacy Virtual Terminal
 filter option in the report setting. Follow these steps:
  1. In report settings, set
    Client Application
     to
    All
    .
  2. Add the
    Source
     field to your report.
  3. After export, filter the
    Source
     column in Excel for
    UBC Virtual Terminal
    .