Visa Launches Intelligent Commerce Connect for Autonomous AI Shopping and Payments
Visa launched Visa Intelligent Commerce in 2025 as part of its push into AI agent commerce, enabling agents to search, compare prices and complete purchases on consumers’ behalf. As agent-led shopping gains traction, merchants need to identify trusted agents and authorize payments securely. A common interface spanning card networks, protocols and token vaults is therefore critical to adoption at scale.
Visa unveiled Intelligent Commerce Connect on April 8, 2026. Through a single integration with the Visa Acceptance Platform, it brings together product catalogs, payments, tokenization, spending controls and authentication. The platform supports Visa and non-Visa cards and is compatible with four protocols: TAP, MPP, ACP and UCP. It is being piloted with eight partners, including AWS and Aldar, and is expected to expand later this year. Visa has not disclosed its investment or pricing.
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The history behind this eventVisa-PYMNTS Report Says Payments Industry Is Ready for Agentic Commerce
Visa Acceptance Solutions commissioned PYMNTS Intelligence to examine how the payments ecosystem is adapting to Agentic Commerce. Under this model, autonomous agents search, make decisions and pay on consumers’ behalf. Transactions may span websites, apps and physical channels, requiring identity verification, authorization and risk controls to be redesigned.
The latest report found that nearly 80% of acquirers are ready to support the omnichannel infrastructure required for Agentic Commerce, indicating that the industry is moving from infrastructure development to implementation. The report disclosed no transaction value, and the event information did not specify a publication date. The current priority is enabling autonomous agents to complete card transactions seamlessly across environments.
Visa Examines Agentic Commerce, Says Trust and Authorization Are Key to Automated Payments
Generative AI is evolving from offering recommendations to selecting products and making payments on consumers' behalf, giving rise to agentic commerce. Andrew Torre, president of Visa Value-Added Services, said that as AI agents gain the ability to transact autonomously, the competitive focus will shift from model performance to trusted identity, payment authorization and accountability. These factors will directly shape the adoption of automated payments.
Visa recently said it is embedding identity verification, consumer authorization and transaction-dispute controls into payment flows. The aim is to ensure that an AI agent can confirm a user's intent and handle anomalous transactions when making purchases. The related report provided no specific launch date, investment amount or transaction volume, but indicated that Visa views security and trust mechanisms as central to deploying agentic commerce.
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