A Message to Online Storeowners: Upgrade to Miva Merchant 5.5 and Make Sure you are PCI Compliant

UncategorizedTags: e-commerce, miva merchant, miva merchant 5.5, PA-DSS, PCI Compliance, SSL

If you are a Miva Merchant storeowner, it is imperative that you ensure your site is PCI Compliant.  You do this by following all the guidelines (http://www.pcicomplianceguide.org) and submitting the proper forms to the “Payment Card Industry.”  The PCI was formed by the major credit card companies to ensure the e-commerce world is a safe environment and that all customers and merchants are  being properly protected from hackers.  Thanks to the PCI Compliance rules, a sense of trust has been created between customer and business in the online world.

As an online storeowner, you should be aware that creating a sense of trust and security between your business and your customers will increase your bottom line and cause shoppers to return to you.  People only shop from sites they trust with their personal information so you really need to be PCI Compliant.  Accordingly, this is why the use of SSL is one of the guidelines you need to follow … When a shopper sees the closed padlock in their address bar – they know they can trust your site.

Now there is a new set of rules called the PA-DSS or Payment Application Data Security Standard that must be followed by all online merchants as of July 10, 2010.  Miva Merchant 5.5 is already equipped to follow these guidelines.  If you are not yet running this newest version of Miva Merchant, WebNet Hosting will upgrade you for free.  If you are a new customer, we will give you the fully PCI Compliant Miva Merchant shopping cart for your site when you sign up for any of our E-Commerce Hosting Packages.

**For a more detailed and comprehensive look at the new PCI Compliance PA-DSS, check out my Google Knol on PCI Compliance.

**To view our PCI Compliance Press Release, visit http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/09/prweb2895174.htm