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How Does Taking Credit Cards by Phone Work with PCI?”

Date Published:
January 13, 2022

VikingCloud Team

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Many business owners have asked us how to accept credit card information over the phone in a PCI compliant manner.

Some have even assumed that because there’s a human involved the activity must be non-compliant. The good news is that you can take credit cards over the phone (or hand key a customer’s credit card information) and be PCI compliant!

What does it take to really be secure and compliant?

VikingCloud has security and compliance experts that can help, learn more about secure payment solutions here or contact the team for more information.

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