Abstract: Exemplary systems and methods for linking access credentials with payment accounts and facilitating access to events based on associations between the payment accounts and the events are disclosed. One exemplary method includes receiving, at a computing device, an authorization request for purchasing access to an event where the authorization request includes event content, ticket content, and payment content, and where the authorization request is associated with a merchant. The method also includes determining, at the computing device, whether the merchant and/or the event are registered, and when the merchant and the event are registered, storing, in memory of the computing device, a link between a payment account identified in the payment content and the event, whereby the link is able to be retrieved, by the merchant, via a subsequent authorization request, to indicate access to the event.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for facilitating payment account transactions, through selection of particular payment accounts for use in the transactions based on incentives associated with the payment accounts. One exemplary method includes receiving an authorization request for a transaction, where the authorization request includes a virtual card number (VCN) for a virtual wallet used in the transaction, and a parameter of the transaction. The method also includes selecting a payment account, from multiple payment accounts in the virtual wallet, based on an incentive associated with the payment account and the parameter, and replacing the VCN in the authorization request with a primary account number (PAN) for the selected payment account. The method then further includes routing the authorization request, with the appended PAN, to an issuer associated with the selected payment account so that the transaction may be subjected to the incentive associated with the payment account.

Abstract: Exemplary systems and methods for linking access credentials with payment accounts and facilitating access to events based on associations between the payment accounts and the events are disclosed. One exemplary method includes receiving, at a computing device, an authorization request for purchasing access to an event where the authorization request includes event content, ticket content, and payment content, and where the authorization request is associated with a merchant. The method also includes determining, at the computing device, whether the merchant and/or the event are registered, and when the merchant and the event are registered, storing, in memory of the computing device, a link between a payment account identified in the payment content and the event, whereby the link is able to be retrieved, by the merchant, via a subsequent authorization request, to indicate access to the event.