Introduction

This guide walks you through the process of setting up a Visa Business Data Services corporate card data feed to Astrada in order to enroll your card portfolio and share card and transaction data with your Spend Management Provider.

• Step 1: Contact your Issuing Bank relationship manager and request your Visa Business Data Services corporate card data feed to be sent to your Spend Management Provider's Astrada endpoint.
• Step 2: Obtain 'RPIC' identifiers and confirmation of corporate card data feed setup from your Issuer.
• Step 3: Provide 'RPIC' identifiers to your Spend Management Provider

Step 1: Contact your Issuing Bank relationship manager

In order to complete your Visa onboarding, you will need your Issuer to configure an active corporate card data feed to Astrada.
To do this, you will need to communicate with your Issuer through your bank relationship manager.
You will need to make the request to your bank relationship manager to enable Visa commercial card data to send to your Spend Management Provider.

📧

Proposed Email Template

Subject: Setting up a Visa Business Data Services feed to [Spend Management Provider] Powered by Astrada

Dear [Issuer],

I'm writing to request the setup of a Visa Business Data Services feed for our commercial card program with the BIN: [6-8 digit BIN], to be sent to [Spend Management Provider].

Specifically, we need you to configure this data feed as an API endpoint subscription to "[Spend Management Provider] Powered by Astrada”.

For step-by-step instructions, please see the guide attached.

If there are any questions or additional documentation needed, please don't hesitate to reach out.

I look forward to your guidance on next steps to set up this data feed to [Spend Management Provider] Powered by Astrada.

Best regards,

Per the email template above, it will be beneficial to download the file linked below and attach in your correspondence with your Issuer. This will reduce back and forth, and allow them to complete the process more quickly.

📘

Issuer Bulk Enrollment Guide

If it facilitates, Astrada is happy to be included in any email correspondence between you and the issuer in order to help expedite the request and provide any information that is required. To do so, feel free to CC Astrada using [email protected].

❗️

Eligibility

In order to configure your data feed, your issuer needs to be onboarded to the Visa Business Data Services (VBDS) portal.

If your Issuing Bank has not yet been onboarded, your Issuing Bank will inform you and should be able to provide guidance as to when they will be able to activate the feed. For Issuing Banks that do not support VBDS, your Spend Management Provider may offer individual card enrollment.

Should you encounter issues with setting up your commercial card data feed, you are free to reach out to [email protected], and someone will get back to you within 24 hours.

Step 2: Obtain Company ‘RPIC’ Identifiers from Issuer

Visa identifies card programs based upon four identifiers: The Region ID, Processor ID, Issuer ID, and Company/Corporate ID. These are often referred to as the ‘RPIC’. You will need your Issuing Bank to provide these identifiers to your Spend Management Provider to activate your feed.

Upon enabling your data feed, the issuer will relay the identifiers to you. If these identifiers are not provided when the Issuing bank confirms your setup, please request them from your Issuing Bank.

Your feed will not be able to be activated until you provide your ‘RPIC’ identifiers to your Spend Management Provider.

Your Issuing Bank may also ask you to sign a data release waiver. This will need to be completed by one of your organization's signatories in order to complete the setup of your card feed. Neither Astrada nor your Spend Management Provider can assist in the completion of this waiver.

Step 3: Provide RPIC to your Spend Management Provider

Provide the ‘RPIC’ identifiers to your Spend Management Provider to pass on to Astrada to activate the data feed.

Once activated, this will complete your Visa commercial data feed setup. You will shortly be able to benefit from this real-time feed with your Spend Management Provider.