Visa Government Solutions
Disbursements and payouts
Deliver disbursements quickly and securely to those who need it most.
Public finance effectiveness
Streamline public spending and procurement processes with purchase, accounting, and compliance solutions.
Revenue collection
Provide more convenient and secure ways for people and businesses to pay for taxes, public services, and transit.
Policy input and measurement
Gain insights from card spending data to help inform and shape public sector strategies and decision-making.
Our impact around the world
Digitizing public sector payments
Streamline purchases with the Visa Government Purchase Card
Reduce time and cost for government employee payments.
Track employee travel spend with the Visa Government Travel Card
Manage and monitor travel-related expenses.
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Send financial support fast, and directly to those who need it most. Use virtual cards, physical prepaid cards, or a combination of both payment methods to help provide a better-suited experience for recipients.
Delivery — Respond to crisis with quick disbursement of aid and convenient access for recipients.
Impact — Help ensure that emergency aid reaches those in need, including unbanked individuals and hard-to-reach areas.
Efficiency — Enhance cost savings and process efficiency in emergency situations.
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Provide vulnerable individuals with a quick and dependable disbursement program and simplified customer experience, helping to improve policy outcomes.
Speed — Provide convenient, dependable ways for beneficiaries to receive and use funds.
Inclusion — Amplify reach while improving financial enablement and access to the digital economy.
Security — Mitigate risk of fraud and ensure targeted use of funds.
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Provide one-time payments to individuals, or grants and loans to small businesses, to support economic goals.
Recipient experience — Optimize the recipient’s experience when receiving and accessing funds.
Impact — Increase reach to intended beneficiaries and measure the impact of policy decisions.
Insights — Enable more targeted use of funds through insights, reporting, and controls.
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Government agencies can work with certified and experienced Visa partners to digitalize disbursement programs and facilitate issuance, processing, and program management. Learn more here:
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Simplify and enhance how employees procure goods and services and manage expenses. Use virtual cards, physical prepaid cards, or a combination of both payment methods.
Efficiency — Streamline manual processes and reduce errors and costs for you and your employees.
Compliance — Set usage rules to follow your organization’s policies and procedures and utilize data in audit/internal control reviews.
Data — Improve management reporting and ability to analyze spend data.
Security — Take steps to reduce risk to funds and information with the help of fraud prevention tools and the Visa Network.
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Create easier ways to pay for travel and entertainment expenses and manage employee spending. Use virtual, physical, or a combination of both payment methods.
Employee experience — Mobilize employees by providing cards and/or creating a centrally billed corporate account for airlines and hotel bookings.
Compliance — Reduce the risk of fraud and misuse of funds through spend controls and reporting and utilize data in audit/internal control reviews.
Data — Improve purchasing oversight and streamline reporting to track employees’ travel and business-related expenses.
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Facilitate efficient management of fleet performance, and enable a unified, digitized acceptance experience.
Controls — Reduce the risk of fraud and misuse of funds through spend controls and evaluation.
Flexibility and efficiency — Save time and reduce costs associated with human error, bookkeeping, and reconciliation.
Visibility — Streamline reporting to track fleet and employees’ expenses and increase purchasing oversight.
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Build a unified channel experience to simplify and improve how people and businesses pay for and interact with government services.
Simplified payments — Support individuals’ payment method of choice for all interactions with public services.
Security — Protect sensitive data for individuals, businesses, and government entities.
Operational efficiency — Reduce processing and operational costs by transitioning cash and check payments to card.
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Empower communities by enabling small businesses to accept digital payments.
Consistent payment experience — Enhance individuals’ experience by offering the preferred ways to pay across a single digital platform for all multi-agency services.
Improve user experience — Enable a shift to resilient commerce models and facilitate entry to the global marketplace.
Promote self-service — Increase operational efficiencies by allowing individuals to self-serve and pay any multi-agency service when it is convenient for them.
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Make cities more livable and accessible with easier, more connected, and more secure ways to pay for journeys.
Customer experience — Improve ease, speed, and security of access to public transport for residents and visitors.
Cost efficiency — Reduce infrastructure costs and reap the benefits of increased ridership.
Livability and sustainability — Encourage use of public transport by improving the travel experience for users.
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Access unique insights on spend patterns to help inform decision-making in the tourism sector.
Visitor spend trends — Understand spend behavior and tailor tourism programs accordingly.
Tourism growth — Access research and insights to build resilience, grow the sector, and respond to changing consumer demands.
Sector insights — Get a unique view into the split of tourism spend by sector and see which segments of the economy are most affected by visitor fluctuation.
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Guide public policy development and measure effectiveness by leveraging insights from aggregated and anonymized payments data.
Economic insight — Gauge the health of consumer spending and its impact on economic well-being.
Long-term analysis — Understand changes in spend trends and plan accordingly.
Policy input — Leverage economic performance indicators to inform public policy.
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Support urban planning with unique insights based on aggregate spending trends and partners’ data sources.
Informed decision-making — Understand and support changing needs of local communities and cities.
Small business — Support small and local businesses through tailored marketing and digital enablement.
City development — Understand patterns in commercial activity and plan for sustainable city development.