API Overview

Creating and Using Security Keys User Guide
- Recent Revisions to This Document
- VISA Platform Connect: Specifications and Conditions for Resellers/Partners

Introduction to Creating and Using Security Keys

Create a Security Key
- PGP Keys
  - Creating PGP Keys
  - Adding PGP Keys to Your Account
  - Granting User Permissions
- REST API Keys
  - Create a P12 Certificate
  - Submit a Certificate Signing Request
  - Transacting Merchant User: Create a Shared Secret Key Pair
- REST—API Response MLE Key
  - Create or Submit a REST—API Response MLE Key
  - Test Your API Response MLE Key
- Secure Acceptance Keys
- Simple Order API Keys
- SOAP Toolkit Keys
- Message-Level Encryption Keys

Manage a Security Key
- Deactivate a Key
- Delete a Key
- Search for Keys Using Filters

Meta Key Creation and Management
- Create a Meta Key as a Portfolio User
- Create a Meta Key as a Merchant Account User
- Assign a Meta Key to All Merchants
- Assign a Meta Key to Select Merchants
- Remove a Meta Key from all Merchants
- Remove a Meta Key from Select Merchants
- Convert a Meta Key or Non-Meta Key
- Delete a Meta Key
- Regenerate a Meta Key

Meta Keys in API Requests
- REST API Payment Request with a Meta Key
- Simple Order API Payment Request Using a Meta Key
- SOAP Payment Request Using a Meta Key
- SCMP API Payment Request using a Meta Key

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Recent Revisions to This Document

25.12.01

Updated information about how to create, submit, and test the API Response MLE Certificate for the REST API. See REST—API Response MLE Key.

Changed title of the Message-Level Encryption Keys
section to Token Management MLE Keys. See Token Management MLE Keys.

25.10.01

Added support for creating or submitting an API Response MLE Certificate for the REST API. See Create or Submit a REST—API Response MLE Key.

25.08.01

Added support for submitting a certificate signing request (CSR) as a REST API key. See Submit a Certificate Signing Request.

25.04.01

Added information about Visa Acceptance Solutions no longer supporting the SOAP toolkit key type. See the important note in Introduction to Creating and Using Security Keys and SOAP Toolkit Keys.

25.03.01

Updated the available filters for searching for keys. See Search for Keys Using Filters.

Updated how to create a meta key for portfolio users and merchant account users. See Create a Meta Key as a Portfolio User and Create a Meta Key as a Merchant Account User.

Added information about removing a meta key from all merchants and select merchants. See Remove a Meta Key from all Merchants and Remove a Meta Key from Select Merchants.

24.08.01

: This revision contains only editorial changes and no technical updates.

24.06.01

: This revision contains only editorial changes and no technical updates.

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