Businesses & retailers

• About Visa
• Businesses
• Retailers and merchants
  • Accepting Visa
  • Security
    • Handling Visa payments
      • Face-to-face sales
      • Card-not-present sales
    • Minimising fraud
    • Payment security
  • Innovation
  • How it works
  • Training your staff
• Merchant Agents
• Payment security

Handling Visa payments

Retailers can accept Visa payments in many ways – often without the customer being present at the point of sale.

Visa provides secure, convenient payment solutions for every retail environment, whether a purchase takes place in store or remotely over the internet or on the telephone.

By putting in place the payment options that suit your business and are convenient for your customers, you can boost sales, cut queues and considerably reduce your operating costs.

Visa can help you handle two main sales types:

• Face-to-face sales take place when a customer uses a Visa card at the point of purchase
• Card-not-present sales take place remotely, perhaps over the internet, by mail or by telephone order.