VERIFIED BY VISA INFORMATION

Same card, added safety online

Verified by Visa is a procedure established by VISA that allows you the verification of the cardholder´s identity at the moment of purchasing online. Through a simple process, Verified by Visa confirms your identity at the moment of purchasing in the affiliated stores. Provides security and works with your existing VISA card.

To register your card as Verified by Visa is very simple: you register your card just once, and create your own password. Then, when you make purchases at participating online stores, a Verified by Visa window will appear. Simply enter your password and click submit. Your identity is verified and the purchase is secure.

To activate Verified by Visa in your Visa card, or to learn more, contact the financial institution that issued your Visa card. This simple process will assure you avoid inexistent charges to your card or misuse of it in case of card losses
  1. 1. Verified by Visa Information

    1. PAYMENTS WITH VISA CARDS
      The transactions made with your Visa card, use a new service of Visa: Verified by Visa, which makes these transactions authenticated and safe. When confirming the identities of the Visa cardholders, the fraudulent transactions of electronic commerce or in dispute are reduced, and it is a way to satisfy the restlessness of the consumer with respect to the purchases online.

    2. WHAT IS VERIFIED BY VISA?
      Verified by Visa is a unique service that uses personal passwords to help protect Visa card numbers against unauthorized use. Once you activate your card, no one else can use your Visa card number at any participating online stores - without your personal password. Verified by Visa is available for select Visa cards from participating financial institutions.

    3. BENEFITS OF VERIFIED BY VISA
      • Greater security of the consumer for purchases online.
      • Any special applications software are required on the computer of the Visa cardholder.
      • It is easy to use. It only needs a password and your Visa card to make a purchase.


    4. HOW IT WORKS?
      In the first place, the Visa cardholder must register himself in the service just once, visiting the site of inscription of the Bank who issued his Visa card. During the inscription process, a series of questions with security aims are formulated to him, after that, he selects a password to authenticate himself, and decides a phrase that will be used like message of personal guarantee so that the Bank who issued his Visa card can authenticate him when making a transaction.

    5. 3-D SECURE: THE TECHNOLOGY BEHIND VERIFIED BY VISA
      The protocol 3-D Secure sustains the new service of Visa payments, designed to improve and to validate payments conducted by Internet. 3-D Secure is a technology of authentication that uses encription Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and a Plug-in to the Merchant Server that informs and verifies the participants with authentication aims during a purchase. Also, it protects the information of payment with the card during its transmission by Internet.


  2. About the shopping process

    1. Start your flights and fares search by introducing the information Apunake requires: origin, destination, date of travel, number and type of passengers.
    2. Once you select your flights and fares preferences, you wil be directed to an online payment window.
    3. Indicate the names and ID of the travelers. In case of Ander 18 travelers, the relatives ID must be inserted.
    4. Cardholder data must be entered as requested.
    5. Apunake uses VISA electronic online payment services.
    6. Once your payment is accepted, Apunake will issue electronic tickets or generate paper tickets printing orders as requested in the itinerary selected.
    7. An electronic itinerary and a payment confirmation will be sent to the cardholder's email introduced in the site.
    8. h. In case of errors or credit card refusals, Apunake.com will indicate the type of error presented by VISA.