PCI Compliance is a Must. The Engage Group Can Help.

If you’re a digital fundraiser, you know that data and security standards are necessary for conducting safe transactions and maintaining trust with your supporters.

The level of trust is particularly high for nonprofits, as no goods are being exchanged. Your supporters trust you to use their money wisely and keep their data and financial information safe and secure.

This year, a new industry-wide set of rules, imposed by the credit card industry, goes into effect. If your organization accepts credit cards to process donations, you are considered a “merchant” by the Payment Card Industry (PCI) and subject to these new rules. To remain PCI compliant, you are now required to use an Approved Scanning Vendor (ASV) to scan all of your payment pages. This scan looks for any gaps or weaknesses in the security of your payment pages and must be conducted by a vendor that specifically performs this type of scan.

All organizations working within the platform must have this ASV scan completed regardless of any security history. If you are an Engaging Networks client, they have a preferred partner for this process (ControlCase), but other approved options are available as well.

The deadline to have pages scanned is February 14, 2025 – you don’t need to be fully approved on all pages by this date, but you need scan results. And then compliance requirements will come shortly afterward, so there’s time but not a lot.

And that’s where The Engage Group can assist you and your organization. We are a Fully Accredited Engaging Networks Partner. Our team of project managers and developers have been working in the system for 10+ years, and we know the ins and outs of the platform. More importantly, our developers understand the underlying architecture of your payment pages, and if you have any custom coding that is outdated or insecure, we can fix it for you.

We at The Engage Group are currently working with a number of clients to ensure PCI compliance.

If you and your organization need a resource to assist you quickly with any issues of PCI compliance relating to the coding of your payment pages, please reach out ASAP and we will be in touch!

You can contact us here or by calling 443.539.2650.

Learn more about Engaging Networks’ PCI DSS Compliance here.

Learn more about ASV scanning and Control Case here.