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Access a flexible payment authorization framework
Simplify payment authorization with our authorization solutions that let you authorize and secure funds for estimated transactions and extend approved authorizations.
Unlock more revenue
Ease payment friction and help ensure valid transactions with flexible authorizations from Visa.
Our authorization solutions
Help boost authorizations and root out re-authorizations with reliable Authorization solutions.
Benefits for merchants and acquirers
Increase your revenue opportunities, while creating more customer loyalty.
For merchants
Leverage a flexible authorization framework to avoid bad debt and help improve authorization rates:
- Improve revenue and avoid bad debt by securing funds before the final transaction amount is known
- Drive upsell opportunities by securing approved funds before the final amount is known
- Reduce payment complexity and increase operational efficiency
For acquirers
Enhance your payment offering with advanced authorization tools and services:
- Attract and retain merchant clients through value-added features
- Facilitate innovation with an authorization framework tailored to merchants’ needs
- Help merchants avoid bad debt by securing funds up front and reducing exposure to insufficient funds
Explore our products
Tap into innovation and improve transactions with our payment tools.

Verification
Trust in our accurate cardholder verification before and during processing.

Lifecycle management
Maximize revenue and avoid lost sales by keeping stored credentials updated.

Reporting
Reduce operational costs and time by streamlining reporting across payment types, processors and geographies.