Is Your Credit Card Merchant PCI Compliant?

For the would be ecommerce startup in this next round of net startups, sometimes PayPal isn’t going to cut it for the “look and feel” of a pro. So you may want to take a look at the PCI Compliance Guide. This is a best practices and compliance guide that has been adopted in the US (and founded by the credit card bigwigs) for credit card merchant services. As with most of the major net battle fronts this was motivated by privacy and identity theft concerns. Hence when choosing a credit card merchant, checking their PCI compliance should be part of the process.