Hotel-tech glossary

PCI DSS

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. The card-data security framework.

PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) is the framework that governs how merchants handle credit-card data. Hotels processing card transactions must comply at the appropriate PCI level based on annual transaction volume. Modern payment processors (Stripe, Adyen, Mews Payments, Cloudbeds Payments) reduce PCI scope substantially through tokenisation, lowering the compliance burden.

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PSD2

EU Payment Services Directive 2, requiring Strong Customer Authentication for payment transactions.

Part of the hotel-tech glossary. Maintained by Maciej Dudziak, founder of Guestivo.