Visa recently announced a new offering aimed at enabling businesses to participate in AI-driven commerce, as agents increasingly take on purchasing tasks traditionally handled by consumers.
The new product, Intelligent Commerce Connect, is designed as a single integration point for businesses building or supporting agent-based transactions, according to the San Francisco-based payments giant. It said the system enables secure payment initiation, tokenization, authentication, and spend controls through the Visa Acceptance Platform. It also supports transactions across both Visa and non-Visa networks, reflecting a multi-network approach as agent-based commerce evolves.
A key focus is interoperability. The platform is designed to work with multiple token vault providers and supports several emerging agent communication standards, including Trusted Agent Protocol and Universal Commerce Protocol. It also allows merchants to expose product catalogs directly to AI platforms, enabling discovery and checkout within agent-driven workflows.
Visa said the offering is currently in pilot with a range of partners, including technology providers and payment processors, with broader availability expected later this year.
“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,” said Andrew Torre, president of value-added services at Visa.
As adoption grows, the ability to standardize how agents transact could become a key factor in scaling this model across merchants and platforms.