1. Industry & Trade

PCI Compliance

From , former About.com Guide

Definition: Operating within the requirements set by the Payment Card Industry. eCommerce merchants who process credit card transactions online are required to comply with PCI requirements. There are four levels of requirements, based on the volume of annual transactions. The requirements are mostly common sense, best practices. However they specify additional auditing requirements for larger merchants.

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