A client of mine has a very interesting use case:
Enabling consumers to be issued a temporary one-time use debit card number for purchasing goods on 3rd party retailers. Think pinterest for shopping, enabling one to ping goods from 3rd party retailers, and have a digital wallet for the purpose of purchasing pinned goods. The key is that the 3rd party retailer does not necessarily implement an existing wallet solution, like google wallet. Think luxury goods.
It seems that Google Wallet sort of, kind of, enables such a use case via its Virtual OneTime Cards. However, I could not find any indication of API endpoints that would work sort of like this:
Issue a POST to wallet.google.com/virtual_card with customer data, get back a 16-digit debit card number, that may then be used by customer to purchase items on 3rd party retailer sites.
It also seems that AMEX Serve has some kind of beta program in the works: http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/09/american-express-to-release-an-api-for-digital-wallet-platform-serve-focuses-on-data-and-personalization/
Visa has v.me.
Of course, it doesn't seem like any of these services have APIs for issuing temporary debit cards.
Am I missing something?
