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Accepting credit cards and little known facts that business owners are not aware of in PCI Compliance

What is PCI Compliance?

When you or any other small business takes a customer’s credit card, you receive a great deal of sensitive data. The payment card industry (PCI) sets security standards for any business that deals with credit card information so that your patrons’ sensitive data is protected. The major credit card brands, which include American Express, Discover, MasterCard, and Visa, established these standards, known as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS), and continue to manage PCI compliance in accordance with these standards.

What PCI Levels and Requirements Apply to Your Business?

If you accept credit or debit cards, small business PCI compliance is a must regardless of the size of your business. You must comply with all applicable standards even if you only process one credit card transaction per year. If your business has multiple locations with separate tax ID numbers, you’ll need to validate PCI compliance at each individual location. If all of your locations operate under one tax ID, typically you are only required to validate PCI compliance annually for all locations. When applicable, you may also need to pass network scans for each location on a quarterly basis.

For merchants, determining the level of PCI compliance required can be tricky and often depends on how many payment card transactions you handle each year, as well as the credit issuer. 

As a small business at Level 4, processing up to 1 million total Visa transactions in a storefront, or less than 20,000 ecommerce transactions annually, you must complete a Self-Assessment Questionnaire (“SAQ”) and an Attestation of Compliance (“AOC”) form annually, as well as conduct a quarterly network scan by an approved scan vendor (“ASV”), if applicable.