Visa Direct Media Kit

The Visa Direct platform can be used to reach more than three billion consumer card accounts around the world. Available through a comprehensive Visa Direct API library, financial institutions and technology partners can quickly build real-time payment solutions through a feature-rich suite of web services on the Visa Developer Platform.

Visa Direct offers:

• Speed: Transactions are processed in real-time.¹
• Simplicity: An improved customer experience to enable instant payments to all eligible U.S debit or prepaid cards.
• Security: A safe way to pay your customers, backed by Visa’s leading payment security.
• Scale: The support of Visa’s trusted expertise and capabilities to help you as you launch, grow, or enhance the payment experience for your customers.

¹Actual fund availability varies by financial institution. Visa requires U.S. issuers to make funds available to its cardholders within a maximum of 30 minutes of approving the transaction.

Key document

Infographic: Powering faster payments

Press releases

May 10, 2017 | Visa and Cambia Health Solutions Collaborate to Accelerate Patient Health Care Payments with Visa Direct

October 21, 2016 | Visa Direct Expands Its Reach With Real-Time, Card-Based P2P and Funds Disbursements Services

August 4, 2016 | Technology Companies and Financial Institutions Select Visa Direct for Real Time Payments

Blog posts

• Visa and Stripe power Instant Payouts: Instead of waiting days for payment, drivers, delivery people, caregivers, and others are now able to receive real time payments for services.
• Visa Sponsors Money20/20 Hackathon: Visa was among 10 sponsors who challenged hackathon participants at Money20/20 to leverage APIs to create new apps.