Visa has introduced Intelligent Commerce Connect, a new offering designed to help businesses participate in AI-powered commerce.
The product sits within the Visa Intelligent Commerce portfolio and is positioned as an “on ramp” for agent builders, merchants, and enablers to support agentic transactions.
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According to the payment giant, Intelligent Commerce Connect offers a “simple way” for businesses to get started as consumers increasingly use AI agents to make purchases.
It is intended to simplify how companies connect to AI shopping environments, enabling more ways for agents to pay and merchants to accept agentic transactions through a single integration.
The solution will function as a network, protocol, and token vault-agnostic layer for onboarding to agentic commerce.
Visa Value-Added Services president Andrew Torre said: “From small businesses to the world’s biggest retailers, Visa powers how people pay every day, millions of times over.
“Intelligent Commerce Connect brings that same, trusted payment acceptance infrastructure into the emerging world of AI-driven commerce, so businesses can let AI agents buy on behalf of consumers, securely and at scale.”
Intelligent Commerce Connect can be integrated through the Visa Acceptance Platform.
Visa stated that the single integration supports payment initiation, tokenisation, spend controls, and authentication.
According to Visa, the solution combines Visa Intelligent Commerce APIs, used to process agent purchases with Visa cards, with APIs from other networks. This approach is intended to allow agent payments using both Visa and non-Visa cards, depending on availability, and to broaden payment options for agent-led transactions.
The Intelligent Commerce Connect is currently in a pilot phase with selected partners. The company listed Aldar, AWS, Diddo, Highnote, Mesh, Payabli, and Sumvin as participants.
The company plans to roll out the product to additional partners later this year.
Visa added that the solution works with major token vault providers, allowing agent platforms to use existing credential infrastructure and reduce reliance on a single token vault or vendor.
For merchant acceptance, the product supports agent-initiated payments across multiple agent protocols.
The solution can also help merchants make product catalogue information accessible within AI platform experiences. This includes inventory details and product information such as descriptions, specifications, and prices to support discovery, selection, and checkout.
For payment enablers that process transactions for merchants, it can provide orchestration and support PCI compliance as part of the service.
