Checklist: Step Three
Take the Self Assessment Questionnaire
The Self Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) was created by the PCI Council as a tool for merchants to help identify potential security vulnerabilities. The SAQ will ask a series of simple "Yes" or "No" questions based on the PCI Data Security Standards that apply to your business type. As part of our Compliance Program, we have provided an online version of the SAQ via the Get Started button below.
You will first be asked to register so that we can validate your account with us and then provide you with the appropriate questionnaire version for your business type. Upon successful completion of the SAQ, you will be provided with an attestation of compliance. You will be able to print this information for your records. If issues are identified during the SAQ process, you will be given guidance as to what steps you need to take in order to become compliant.
We invite you to get started immediately. Begin verifying your compliance by clicking the Get Started button below, completing the registration process, and taking the Self Assessment Questionnaire.
IMPORTANT: Please be aware that completion of the SAQ provides only a point in time review that allows you to confirm you are currently meeting the requirements for PCI DSS. If is your responsibility to develop and maintain an ongoing program of compliance within your business.
Alternatively, you may select another provider, and then send us the documentation, verifying the work that was completed and verifying your compliance. We have partnered with Trustwave to provide this service to our merchants at a discounted price. If you have completed, or plan on completing, the SAQ process through another source, you may provide us with the necessary information as you complete the registration process.
Also, in order to maintain your eligibility for our Compliance Reimbursement Program, you must have completed an SAQ, and remedied any issues identified, within the 12 months preceding a cardholder data breach incident.