Visa Ready

mPOS Traditional

The Mobile Point of Sale program can facilitate technology providers and other business partners (merchants, acquirers, financial institutions) to provide increased points of acceptance, as well as offering more payment options for consumers.

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Partnership opportunities

Mobile Point of Sale enables smartphones, tablets and dedicated wireless devices to accept payments without the need for a full payment terminal. Visa Ready provides guidelines for the traditional mPOS.

Become a partner

Visa Ready’s mPOS Program might be for you if you:

  • Are ready to build solutions for traditional mPOS

  • Want to build a secure, convenient solution for merchants, acquirers or financial institutions

  • Are interested in using Visa’s specifications to help build your solution and get your solution in the hands of others

Become a partner
Work with a Visa Ready partner

Working with a Visa Ready mPOS certified partner might be for you if you:

  • Are a small merchant or retailer who can’t develop solutions on your own

  • Want a ready-made solution you can add to your consumer-facing experience

  • Want help from solution providers who have certified solutions ready to launch

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Program benefits

Merchant Benefits

Accept payments on your mobile device from anywhere. By using a Visa Ready certified hardware and software solution, you'll have tools to help generate more revenue, monitor sales, and more.

Acquirer Benefits

The rise in electronic payments can help increase revenue growth for merchants and for you. mPOS versus traditional POS solutions may increase your ROI in less time, at a fraction of the cost.

Certification process

Create a Visa Partner account

This gives you access to all programs on Visa Partner, including Visa Ready.

Fill out our application

We will review your application and compare it with our criteria.

Get access to important specifications

Access to specialized solution documents and technical specifications.

Upload required certification documents 

Functionality based on Visa’s Tap to Phone solution requirements with optional PIN capture.

Receive program approval decision

Engage with Visa Approval Services and perform required testing.

Sign and return the mPOS agreement 

Learn detailed next steps and sign our program agreement.

Receive solution approval decision 

Share your solution details that will appear on our partner directory.

Get listed in our partner directory

Help future customers find your company and solution based on their needs.

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