Painting the store. Fixing the van. Planning an open house event. There are some tasks that can be Do-it-Yourself (DIY) friendly for business owners--but getting your company Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Compliant-ready isn’t one of them.
This past January, in order to ensure that cardholder information is kept safe, every business that accepts payment in the form of debit or credit cards from customers has to prove PCI DSS compliance. If your company has been patting itself on the back for finally making the leap to accepting debit and credit card payments, the idea of PCI DSS compliance can be intimidating, as well as overwhelming. Just trying to understand the PCI DSS Standards themselves can be an uphill battle. These 12 high-level industry standard requirements cover everything from access control, to storage and maintenance of information, network security and more, and are further broken down to 400 different sub-requirements. Is your head spinning yet?
Before you get ready to hang a “Closed While We Try and Figure out PCI DSS” sign on your door, think about hiring an expert to help you navigate through this process. You wouldn’t try and fix the plumbing in your business without consulting an expert, and the same should hold true when it comes to getting your business PCI DSS compliant. But finding the right partner can be as confusing as trying to understand the process itself, so here’s what to consider when looking for a PCI DSS compliance expert:
Look for a group you can grow with: Find a company that not only has experience helping businesses your size with PCI DSS compliance, but has successfully worked with companies larger than yours, because you do plan on growing your business in the future. Look for a partner that can provide tools and services that can encrypt your customers’ credit card data, store customers’ card numbers in a secure compliant facility and offer protected technologies for customers paying through mobile devices.
Find someone who speaks your language: Do your eyes begin to glaze over when business professionals start spouting statistics and procedures? Choose a PCI DSS expert that can cut through the confusion of the process and explain clearly to you what you need to do and how you need to do it.
Select an expert that’s in it for the long haul: Choose a partner that won’t walk away from you in the middle of the PCI DSS process. You want a partner that has the tools and services that will help guide and support your business through the entire process.
ProPay is the perfect partner to help your business with PCI DSS compliance. With decades of experience helping companies of all sizes, ProPay will help your business with the compliance process from validation through reporting. ProPay even offers access to PCI support experts to answer any questions and offer additional support.
When it comes to PCI DSS compliance, don’t go the DIY route: choose an expert you can trust. Choose ProPay. Give us a call at 888.227.9856 or email sales@propay.com to learn more about how we can help you.