How to become Visa acquire ?

[omarbnh]

Hi! 

I am in the process of starting a payment provided start up in order to offer card present payment for brick and mortar stores in Morocco. I was looking in VISA Developer documentation to how does it look like the API but I could not find nothing. There's also no information about the process of getting a Visa acquire licence.

Notes: 

• I have find this topic: https://community.developer.visa.com/t5/General/How-can-I-be-VISA-acquirer-directly-with/m-p/10579#M... but all the links are broken.
• I am aware of acquiring as a service providers in Morocco but I am interested in knowing how to get integrated with VISA directly.

Cheers

[DianaVisaPM]

Hey @omarbnh,

Can you please provide us a detailed business use case on what you plan to do with Visa APIs? Please check our website for specific APIs relevant to your business case.
https://developer.visa.com/
https://developer.visa.com/apibrowser

Please follow the steps in the “Working with Visa APIs” link below to register and create a Visa Developer application.
https://developer.visa.com/pages/working-with-visa-apis

This guide walks you through the key steps for application creation, credentials, and connection validation.

If you are ready after testing your App in sandbox, send us a production request and we will evaluate your Application and other credentials. Please let us know of any other questions.

[rlaxmi]

Thanks @Diana. It's very helpful to me

[omarbnh]

Thanks for the answer 🙂  so to which email should I send the detailed business use case and what's the estimated time to get an answer after sending the email?

[DianaVisaPM]

Hey @omarbnh,

To follow up, if you need an acquirer, and if you're not able to find an acquirer, please refer to this page - https://usa.visa.com/run-your-business/visa-direct/find-a-partner.html

If you would like to submit your detailed business case, please send the email to developer@visa.com and reference this community forum link.

The estimated time to get an answer varies on different things such as your business case, type of question, if you're currently working with a Visa representative, etc. However, the response time for someone to reply to your email is usually within 1 business day.

[Nicole03]

Thank you! This was a big help.