Paypal Pro, recurring payments & PCI Compliance

Discussion in 'Payments processing' started by hagraha, Dec 2, 2009.

  1. hagraha

    hagraha New Member

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    I want to have recurring payments and I don't want my members to have to sign up for a Paypal account.

    I got everything set up and working with Paypal standard, only to discover the bit about the member having to sign up for a Paypal account for recurring payments to work. Definitely not what I want, so

    ...to solve my problem it seems like an easy solution would be:

    Paypal Pro $30/month
    Paypal Pro recurring payments $30/month
    amemberpro Paypal Pro plug-in

    Is this correct so far?

    Now the only question remaining is the one of PCI Compliance. I downloaded the Paypal Payment Compliance ebook and for level 4 (less than 20,000 transactions/year) it says you need to follow their 12 security standards, do an annual self assessment questionnaire and have a quarterly network scan by an independent scan vendor. But if Paypal has all the credit card information and none of it is on my system, does this really apply?

    Am I missing any other pieces to this puzzle? I want to make sure I understand all the components before I take the leap.

    Thanks for your help.
  2. alexander

    alexander Administrator Staff Member

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    Yes you still need to apply this, because in case of Paypal PRO direct payments, CC info will be taken on your site. So your system needs to be secure.

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