Your

Visa Acceptance Platform

Environments

As a

Visa Acceptance Platform

partner, your organization is provided with a portfolio account in the

production

environment for merchant boarding, administration, support, and other operational capabilities. The

Visa Acceptance Platform

products enabled for your portfolio are based on those that were introduced during the scoping and planning process and confirmed through your Visa Acceptance agreements.

Depending on your organizational needs, you might be issued a test portfolio account in the

test

environment. This environment is also known as the

customer acceptance system (CAS)

environment. You can use your test account to test you and your merchants’ integration, training, and test needs. Both environments are be provided to you with the same product and service options. New and additional products and services can be added to the test portfolio account separately from the production portfolio account for evaluation and new commercialization purposes.

If you are a reseller, consider how both the production and test portfolio accounts can be used based on your needs and your merchants' needs. Some resellers might have multiple test and production portfolio accounts depending on how their organization operates.

It is recommended you test the process of enabling merchants in your test account first, and when you are ready, enable the merchants in your production environment portfolio.