Visa is launching a solution that will allow businesses worldwide to use AI agents in e-commerce through a single integration, primarily for making purchases and processing payments.
Visa introduced Intelligent Commerce Connect, a solution designed to simplify how companies connect to infrastructure that enables the use of artificial intelligence (AI) agents in e-commerce.
Intelligent Commerce Connect is a universal tool for connecting businesses to agentic commerce, a format of e-commerce where purchases are made not directly by humans but by AI agents acting on their behalf. The solution combines payment network capabilities, protocol functionality, and token storage systems to ensure secure transaction processing.
Intelligent Commerce Connect is implemented through a single integration with the Visa Acceptance Platform. As a result, companies gain access to several key features, including:
- payment initiation;
- card data tokenization;
- spending controls;
- transaction authentication.
The system also supports cards issued not only by Visa but by other payment networks as well, expanding the range of payment options.
According to Andrew Torre, President of Value-Added Services at Visa, the new solution brings the trusted payment acceptance infrastructure, used by millions of merchants worldwide, into the agentic commerce space. This will enable businesses to securely scale operations where purchases are made by AI agents on behalf of customers.
Key capabilities of the solution include:
- support for multiple card tokenization providers without vendor lock-in;
- acceptance of payments initiated through major agent transaction protocols, including Trusted Agent Protocol, Machine Payments Protocol, Agentic Commerce Protocol, and Universal Commerce Protocol;
- integration of merchants’ product catalogs with AI platforms, allowing users to select and pay for goods directly within digital assistant interfaces;
- compliance with PCI security standards for companies processing transactions on behalf of merchants.
The new solution is already being piloted with several partners, including Aldar, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Diddo, Highnote, Mesh, Payabli, and Sumvin. Visa plans to expand the list of participants throughout 2026.
Intelligent Commerce Connect is part of the broader Visa Intelligent Commerce initiative, within which the integration of AI agents into the company’s global payment infrastructure was first introduced in May 2025.
