Verified By Visa
How Does Verified By Visa Work?
Cardholder authentication
Verified by Visa is simple for your customers to use, adding just one additional step to your usual checkout process.
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1. Your customer selects the items they wish to purchase and |
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2. Your Verified by Visa Merchant Plug-In (MPI) checks the Visa |
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3. The Visa Directory then contacts the customer’s card issuer and |
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4. Your customer provides their card issuer with Verified by Visa |
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5. The card issuer then sends your Verified by Visa Merchant Plug- |
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6. You then go ahead and process the transaction in the normal |
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e-Commerce Merchants’ Guide to Risk Management
- Tools and best practices for online merchants. (pdf | 304kb)

Account Information Security (AIS) Program
- AIS is a risk management program sponsored by Visa and run by the financial institutions that issue Visa cards.

ESDlife Services Hong Kong – Case Study
- ESDlife is an award-winning bilingual portal that has pioneered the provision of public and commercial services in Hong Kong. Find out more about ESDlife’s participation in Verified by Visa.
香港與澳門 Hong Kong and Macau






