What is the Visa Marketplace program?

Visa Marketplace program

The Visa Marketplace Program requires acquirers to register their marketplace clients with Visa. The program has several components.

Reference terms

• Marketplace: an entity that brings together buyers and retailers, and handles payments on the retailers’ behalf.
• Retailer: an individual or business selling goods or services.
• Foreign retailer: a retailer based in a different country/region than the one where the marketplace conducted the sale.
• Foreign retailer volume: marketplace transaction volume generated by foreign retailers with domestic issuers (the issuer is in the same country/region as the marketplace).

Marketplace Reporting

• As part of the Visa Marketplace Program, the acquirer is subject to provide reporting for marketplaces that have foreign retailers through quarterly submission of the Marketplace Quarterly Reporting Form for marketplaces.
• The quarterly reports are usually due within the first 15 calendar days after the end of each calendar quarter.