With the adoption of telephony cloud solutions and the increasing use of call recordings for training purposes in many companies, there is a greater risk that credit card information, shared between the card owner and the merchant during the call, will get stored on insecure servers in the cloud. As a reaction to this development, the PCI SSC recently published new guidance on how merchants should accept payment information from customers over the telephone. The Protecting Telephone-Based Payment Card Data guide highlights both the risks involved, and the areas that require the attention of merchants if they are to adequately protect customers payment details. This raises the question for merchants: what is the most secure and easiest way to accept card details over the phone?…

We would like to let you know regarding some improvements that have been made to the Property Management System. Until now, the process of managing properties (actions such as sending or resending activation emails and reopening closed properties) required logging into the PCI Booking user's portal and manually completing these actions. We recognize this is time consuming and, in order to improve this process, we have developed and released the following functionality updates: Closed properties may now be re-opened via the API.Activation emails may now be re-sent via the API. We welcome your feedback on these changes and, as always, will keep you updated regarding any further new developments - including ones also related to management of properties through the API that we are currently working on.…