SecureTrading

You may have seen in the news yesterday, that the PCI Security Council has released version 2.0 of the PCI Data Security Standard and Payment Application Standard.

But it’s only October I hear you cry!! Actually Christmas is only 2 months away. Scary. Now is the perfect time to review your website and make sure it’s ready for the Christmas rush. For most retailers Christmas is the busiest time of the year. Last Christmas £5.46 billion was spent. We’re crossing our fingers and toes that this year will be even better.

So what should you do? We have compiled a list of tips to get you going.

Welcome to the first blog version of Merchant Monday a Twitter feature that promotes our new customers and tells you a bit more about them.

If you follow us on Twitter you may already know that we have been at Ecommerce Expo in London Olympia for the past few days, on stand 622 to be precise.

One of the questions that I’m often asked is whether I should use 3-D Secure? (3-D Secure is the technology that drives Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode.) Some people take the view that it’s the world’s worst technology. It interrupts your session. It creates friction and stops the process of converting browsers to buyers. [...]

Despite fraud figures being down, it remains an ongoing problem for merchants. SecureTrading help you as much as we can by offering an excellent suite of counter fraud services as standard.

Ian Cushion, Marketing & Sales Manager, SecureTrading

Now in its third year the SecureTrading Merchant Survey results are in and the good news is that we received our highest ever number of responses.