Savvy Operator

There are many services on-line that offer validation services that help to establish your on-line credibility.  In some cases, these validation services also double as PCI compliance scan providers. Set-up your Privacy Policy and Seal with TRUSTe – How you handle your customer’s sensitive private information is critical to creating a trusted relationship with your [...]

As a business that accepts credit cards you stand the risk of having a charge back filed against your merchant account.  A charge back is request made by a consumer to the credit card company claiming that they either did not receive the goods for which they paid or they requested a refund which you [...]

PCI Compliance stands for “Payment Card Industry” Compliance which are a set of security standards development by the credit card brands (Visa and Mastercard) to protect customer credit card data.  You have probably heard in the past about system being hacked and credit cards numbers being stolen by cyber thieves.  The PCI Data Security Standards [...]

Unlike what you may think, the credit card merchant application process is not an overwhelming one.  Getting yourself ready to accept credit cards means ensuring that you have certain things in place when you talk to your preferred payment processor.  It is a good idea to know what to expect during the application process and [...]

There is no doubt that credit cards are a major part of e-commerce.  The question is whether or not you should or need to accept credit cards with your tourism related business.  There are a number of pros and cons to accepting payment by credit card, whether or not you choose to accept payment by [...]