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Do you have to be PCI compliant to use Shoppable's Universal Checkout API?

It depends. If you use Shoppable's secure Checkout API wrapper, Shoppable will handle PCI Compliance on your behalf. If you use the Checkout API and handle shopper billing details directly, you take on PCI compliance

It depends. If you use Shoppable's secure Checkout API wrapper, Shoppable will handle PCI Compliance on your behalf. If you use the Checkout API and handle shopper billing details directly, you take on PCI compliance. We will ask that you provide Shoppable with proof of PCI compliance before launching.

If you are not PCI Compliant and do not want to go through that process, you can choose to use Shoppable's Hosted Checkout or PCI-Compliant, Headless Checkout API wrapper, which does not require you to be PCI Compliant since you will not be handling billing details. With these solutions, Shoppable is PCI-compliant and will handle the billing details on your behalf.

 

Note: Not all account levels include the option of using Shoppable's Checkout API.