Team Media now provides PCI Compliant Solutions for its Hosting Clients

PCI-DSS is a set of requirements that the major credit card companies have put in place to enhance cardholder payment data security. If you are a merchant that accepts credit cards for purchases online you are required to comply with the PCI-DSS requirements.

All merchants fall into one of four merchant levels defined by the merchant’s transaction volume over a year.

A level 4 merchant is defined as "any merchant processing fewer than 20,000 Visa ecommerce transactions per year," and is the most common small business merchant level.

Level 3 merchants are classified as doing 20,000 to 1,000,000 transactions per year.

Your merchant level defines your PCI compliance validation options.

Level 3 and Level 4 merchants are required by PCI-DSS requirements to complete a Self Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) and to pass a quarterly network vulnerability scan.

Level 4 merchants, however, may not be required by their merchant acquirer to fulfill either of these requirements.

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