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Originally Posted by rfresh
PCI certification is expensive and you may elect to not get a merchant account because of the extra expensive.
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Hi rfresh
My understanding is that for most online retailors, (ourselves included) that we would fall into the self certification category, ie we are using a third party gateway who is compliant. That said, this isn't something we have been asked to do by our merchant account provider, and as far as I'm aware, this isn't a legal obligation?
Although obviously card details and data security are something all businesses should take seriously, and ensure strict internal controls are in place.
https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/index.shtml
Be interested to hear from anyone who has opened a merchant account recently, if you did incur extra expense becoming PCI DSS certified.
If they are, then that will surely play into the hands of providers like Paypal and NoChex?