Visa provisioning service means that your visa card is provisioned or activated for mobile thus you can make online payments using mobile.
What is a Visa?
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Visa Inc. is an American financial services multinational company, founded by Dee Hock in Sep 1958.
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Its headquarters are located in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Visa Inc. helps customers by providing them service of electronic fund transfer using their Visa Debit/Credit card.
Type of visa cards
Visa Inc. has provided three types of credit cards which further has different types according to the requirements of customers.
Following is the list of visa cards.
1. Credit Cards
This service offers customers to pay for anything either for shopping, any service by the funds made available to you by Visa Inc. Later, you have to pay back the amount of money you have used each month.
There are five types of credit cards offered by them which are as follows.
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Visa Classic
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Visa Gold
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Visa Signature
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Visa Infinite
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Visa Platinum
2. Debit Card
It helps customers to make payment without physical cash at places where a debit card is accepted where the amount of cash is deducted from your account.
Following are the five types of debit cards they offer which have the same names as their credit card names.
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Visa Classic
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Visa Gold
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Visa Signature
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Visa Infinite
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Visa Platinum
3. PrePaid Card
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Here you can load some amount of money in card to be used for paying out for goods or any service.
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You can use this card even if you do not have a bank account.
Which type of visa card is used for mobile payments?
Any visa card can be used for online payments using mobile.
Ways to make payment on mobile
If you want to make payments using mobile then there are three of the following ways recommended by Visa to be used.
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Google Pay (for android)
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Samsung Pay (for Samsung device)
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Apple Pay (for Apple devices)
Which country is the most cashless?
Sweden is the most cashless country and is estimated that Sweden would go completely cashless till 2023.
Alternatives to visa card
There are alternatives to visa cards as well for making online financial transactions.
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Mastercard
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American express
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Maestro
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V Pay
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JCB Co. Ltd (Japan)
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RuPay (India)
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Union pay (China)
Bottom Line
Visa Inc. is a multinational financial services provider company which is one of the most reliable, safe and user friendly.
It helps customers to make payments electronically, without the hassle of using physical cash.
It offers many credit, debit and prepaid cards to its users.
There are alternatives available in the market other than visa which provides a tough competition to Visa.
Visa payments can be made using payment apps compatible for android, apple and samsung device users.