PCI DSS stands for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. It was developed by the major credit card companies as a guideline to help organizations that process card payments, prevent credit card fraud, cracking, and various other security vulnerabilities and threats. A company processing, storing, or transmitting payment card data must be PCI DSS-compliant or risk losing its ability to process credit card payments and being audited and/or fined.

Sage 100 Contractor does not currently enable the processing of credit card payments; however, two Sage 100 Contractor windows provide data entry fields for credit card numbers and related information:

• 3-6 Receivable Clients, Payment Information tab, under Credit Card Information.
• 11-2 Work Orders/Invoices/Credits, Invoice Details tab, Card/Check# field.
• In addition, you may have created user defined fields to store credit card numbers.

Caution! To avoid any non-compliance with PCI DSS, we recommend against storing credit card information in Sage 100 Contractor. Such storage does not comply with the PCI DSS, and thus it creates a possible risk for your business.

For more information about PCI DSS standards, click the following link:
https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/