There are three ways to pay with your credit cards here at www.schnitzskis.com. You can use the shopping pages found throughout this website where you will find an "ADD TO CART" button which authorizes your credit card payment through PayPal which is one of the best and safest payment methods available online.
At the top of our homepage, you will find a link to a shopping cart; (http://shoppingcart.schnitzskis.com/) where you can pay directly with your credit card online. When paying online, always look for the lock which is displayed at the bottom right hand side of the page where you are giving out your personal information. Additionally, there should be an "s" following the http in the address bar (it should look like this https://). These are assurances that the website is safe. You will find both of these assurances on both our PayPal and direct Credit Card ordering pages.
Here is the SECURITY information for our direct credit card payments;
CISP Certified Shopping Cart
MonsterCommerce anticipates end-to-end CISP compliance in the fall of 2005. The MonsterCommerce storefront system will then be a CISP Certified Shopping Cart. The MonsterCommerce storefront system will also be PCI compliant at this time.*
As Visa and MasterCard attempt to combat increases in credit card fraud, banks and merchants face possible penalties for non-compliance with payment card industry security standards. MonsterCommerce provides secure and CISP certified shopping carts and merchant accounts for businesses of all sizes.
What is Visa CISP?
Visa's Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP) is designed to ensure that all merchants and that store, process, or transmit Visa cardholder data, protect it properly. To achieve CISP compliance, merchants and service providers must adhere to the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard. Click here to view Visa's CISP regulations.
What is PCI?
The PCI Standard is the result of collaboration between the four major credit card brands to develop a single approach to safeguarding sensitive data. The PCI standard defines a series of best practices for handling, transmitting and storing sensitive data.
How do you become CISP Compliant?
Every party or software that participates in the credit card processing chain must be CISP certified to meeting compliance requirements. For e-commerce merchants, the processing chain typically includes the Storefront System, which collects the credit card data from the customer, the Payment Gateway and Merchant Account, which process the credit card, and the hosting or data center infrastructure on which the online store and gateway reside.
MonsterCommerce offers merchants CISP compliant elements to link the processing chain from start to finish.
MonsterCommerce Storefront System
MonsterCommerce builds software from a secure architecture framework. Keeping security in mind when designing every feature and every line of code has propelled MonsterCommerce to the forefront of the e-commerce software industry.
MonsterCommerce Hosting
MonsterCommerce's ecommerce servers are located in a state of the art, SAS70, SOX, CISP/PCI compliant datacenter. With up to date security equipment, robust firewalls and sophisticated physical security, MonsterCommerce fully protects all ecommerce data.
MonsterMerchantAccounts - Powered by BankCard Central
MonsterCommerce offers a fully CISP/PCI compliant merchant account. All parties including the bank and the payment gateway are CISP compliant.
