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Posted on Thursday, April 22, 2010 by Jen Busenbark

We have recently decided to change the way we handle announcements regarding the gateway. We want to make sure we are only sending you information that is useful to you. There is nothing more annoying that an inbox full of email you care nothing about. In order to ensure we do that we have set up several mailing list. You can control which list you want to subscribe to. You will find details below about the information that will be sent to each list.

If you are a merchant that is working with developers that are integrating with our client library we strongly recommend that you have your developers sign up for our client library emails.

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If you have any questions please contact support@getbraintree.com


What developers need to know about PCI Compliance

Posted on Friday, April 16, 2010 by Bryan Johnson

Armando Roggio from Ecommerce Developer interviewed Dan Manges and me about what developers need to know about PCI Compliance, our solutions, and credit card data portability.

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Credit Card Data Portability

Posted on Wednesday, March 31, 2010 by Bryan Johnson

Before the 1996 Telecommunications Act, you couldn't port your phone number if you changed providers. That was clearly problematic for a lot of reasons. The same problem exists today in the payment processing world. The majority of providers will not allow merchants to port the credit card data stored on a merchant's behalf. This limitation can put a merchant in a real bind.

To try and help address this problem, we created a Credit Card Data Portability initiative (press release). It's an opt-in community of payment providers that agree to allow a merchant to port credit card and other associated information if the merchant ever decides to move to another provider. We hope other like-minded providers will join us and participate. Providers can maintain the Credit Card Data Portability logo on their website to demonstrate participation. Providers are encouraged to make any terms and conditions available.

We've included a recommended data transfer approach to ensure that any data transfer is both secure and in compliance with the PCI Standard. We think this is positive step in the payments industry that will help eliminate vendor lock-in and promote free market principles of fair competition.

If you'd like to discuss Credit Card Data Portability, we invite to join the Credit Card Data Portability Google Group.

With tongue in cheek, we also created a video to accompany the announcement:

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