Can AI agents buy at Visa Intelligent Commerce?
PilotPayment network
Pilot means a limited test, or access the company has not opened to everyone. Visa's Intelligent Commerce Connect pilot gives businesses one integration for agent payments, using tokenized cards and spending limits.
Note on this rowVisa first introduced Intelligent Commerce on April 30, 2025 as a partner program. The April 2026 Connect on-ramp is a pilot with partners including Aldar, AWS, Diddo, Highnote, Mesh, Payabli, and Sumvin. On October 8, 2026 Crossmint said its toolkit uses Visa tokenized credentials where a card supports them. On October 20, 2026 a BILL and Billtrust pilot lets a trusted agent pay supplier invoices the buyer already approved. On October 28, 2026 Shopify said Shop Pay uses Visa tokens for some off-Shopify agent purchases (https://www.shopify.com/news/fall-26-edition-merchant). On November 5, 2026 Visa launched the Visa Agentic Commerce Benchmark, research it says is complementary to Intelligent Commerce, not the same product, and public on Visa Payments Frontier.
Where does this come from?
As of . Source: Visa newsroom.
Related protocols
- Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) · Live · September 29, 2025
- Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) · Live · January 11, 2026
- Visa Intelligent Commerce (Visa) · Pilot · April 8, 2026
- Mastercard Agent Pay (Mastercard) · Live · April 29, 2025
Related news
- Visa launches a benchmark of AI shopping tasks · November 5, 2026
- Tencent and Mastercard sign an MoU to explore agentic payments · Not yet live · November 2, 2026
- Tencent and Visa sign an MoU to explore agentic commerce · Not yet live · October 29, 2026
- Shop Pay checkout is inside Muse, Claude Duet, and Instinct · October 28, 2026
- Evervault launches Browser Tokens for agent checkout · October 20, 2026
- Visa, BILL, and Billtrust pilot agent invoice payments · October 20, 2026
- Crossmint launches a toolkit for agent checkout · October 8, 2026
- Visa pilots Intelligent Commerce Connect · April 8, 2026