Visa Developer Platform
- Work with us to create your own mobile payment application with the Visa Token Service SDK
- Develop payment solutions that integrate directly with token management tools.
Visa offers standards, specifications, development tools, and turnkey mobile solutions to help partners build and deploy their own tokenised apps to cardholders.
Contactless mobile transactions are leading the next wave of digital payments, and Visa Token Service can make them simple and secure. With Near Field Communication (NFC) technology and Visa payWave, secure purchases are as easy as the wave of a hand.
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Visa offers standards, specifications and development tools to help partners build and deploy their own mobile payment apps.
Visa Token Service is a complete, integrated set of tokenisation tools: Visa Token Vault, Token Management and Visa Risk Manager.
Visa’s Digital Enablement Programme (VDEP) simplifies the way you offer innovative payment solutions. With streamlined access to Visa Token Service, VDEP connects financial institutions and technology companies so that you can offer payment options with Google Pay, Samsung Pay and Visa Checkout all in one go.
Answers to commonly asked questions about Visa Token Service.
Payment tokenisation is the process of replacing the traditional payment card account number with a unique digital token in online and mobile transactions. Tokens can be restricted for transactions with a specific mobile device, merchant or transaction type. The tokenisation process happens in the background in a way that is invisible to the consumer.
In October 2013, Visa, MasterCard and American Express proposed a new standard for digital payments. EMVCo – the global standards organisation that oversees EMV specifications to ensure interoperability and acceptance – has since built on this framework with input from EMVCo’s members and the industry to advance availability and adoption of tokens around the world. EMVCo published the initial version of the specification in March 2014. The development of a global standard will help enable a new generation of payment products, while maintaining compatibility with the existing payments infrastructure.
We live in a “connected” world. As more consumers make purchases online with smartphones, tablets and PCs, the payments industry is focused on delivering a safe, secure, simple and consistent consumer purchasing experience, regardless of where they are and what device they are using. The development of a global standard will help enable a new generation of payment products, while maintaining compatibility with the existing payments infrastructure.
EMVCo, the global standards organisation that oversees EMV specifications, has expanded its scope to also develop tokenisation specifications. EMVCo has built the framework with input from EMVCo’s members and the industry as we collectively seek to advance availability and adoption of tokens around the world. EMVCo published the initial version of the specification in March 2014.