I NEVER handle payments and understand that a previous explanation purported that even if ONLY names and invoice dates are accessible via my portal, that I need to be PCI compliant. WHY? I have NO access to any payment information WHATSOEVER. This seems like a scam to me, as merchants who have NO data to "comply" with or risk breech with and mandate $85 for something that Quickbooks handles in their own security measures. What happens if I don't "comply"?

BTW, I'm expecting some pat answer from QB that says we need to do it anyway and wondering if anyone has found a loophole or a less expensive route. 

I NEVER handle payments and understand that a previous explanation purported that even if ONLY names and invoice dates are accessible via my portal, that I need to be PCI compliant. WHY? I have NO access to any payment information WHATSOEVER. This seems like a scam to me, as merchants who have NO data to "comply" with or risk breech with and mandate $85 for something that Quickbooks handles in their own security measures. What happens if I don't "comply"?

BTW, I'm expecting some pat answer from QB that says we need to do it anyway and wondering if anyone has found a loophole or a less expensive route. 

Have you found a loophole or other company that charges less or free? Seems scammy to me...

Correct, adding a scanning utility is an increased security risk.  I just wanted to confirm that feeling of being lied to is real.

Why would an "online" product be storing anything on the device?

What possible control does the end user have over where QuickBooks ONLINE stores credit card numbers?

Your answers are evasive!  For goodness sakes, this is clearly a scam.  Don't you care about your personal reputation at all?

I only asked two questions.  Let's see if anyone has the integrity to answer honestly.  Clearly this is headed to a class action lawsuit.  I cannot wait to join.

We just came to the exact same solution.  It's time to commit to learn some other software product.  Intuit is just a series of scams.

the audacity of suggesting that the end user can somehow influence where the software authors store data, is only surpassed by the audacity of demanding  that the user should pay an annual fee for a unknown scanning software in their device to verify that Intuit didn't store credit card numbers on that device.

How do any of you Intuit employees, intentionally misleading users in this forum sleep at night?  I'm curious are you lying to everyone in your life, or holding onto the illusion that you can keep your lying compartmentalized?

ITS YOUR SOFTWARE!!!  YOU WROTE IT!!!  ONLY YOU DECIDE WHERE DATA IS STORED!!!

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ENLIGHTEN US HOW TO USE QUICKBOOKS ONLINE OR GO PAYMENT TO STORE CREDIT CARD NUMBERS ON OUR DEVICES!!!  THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE ACCUSING US OF DOING!!!  PROVE THAT THERE IS EVEN A METHOD TO DO IT FIRST!!!

Hello MichaelOD,

Thank you for chiming in. We do care, I assure you. I have an article here that delves into the details of various aspects of PCI Compliance and can answer a lot of the whys. 

• Learn about QuickBooks PCI Compliance

Please let me know if you have any other questions or concerns. We will do our best to help. 

I checked your resource.  It doesn't answer the key questions, already asked:

Why would an "online" aka "cloud" product be storing anything on the device?

What possible control does the end user have over where QuickBooks ONLINE stores credit card numbers?

what possible risk is there to a customer credit card being charged if I never had that number and never stored it?  Only Intuit's cloud software has the opportunity to store that number.  I've never stored a single credit card number in 15 years of being in business.  Every single charge was new, and the customer had to volunteer to pay it, almost always via Intuit's pay online portal, so I never even see the credit card numbers, nor does my device (the credit card readers you sold us with worthless batteries was another scam--and I don't use them, so only Intuit sees the credit card numbers).  Only Intuit's cloud can create risk.  I cannot, unless Intuit is lying about storing customer credit card numbers, or are lying that this isn't just another Intuit scammy profit center, like scanning your customer bank accounts and forwarding prospects to your loan products division, without their permission (which is also tiresome, invasive and probably illegal in my state).

The evasiveness is gross.  Just own it.  Be a respectable human, for goodness sakes.  It really is a much happier life!

If you can't or won't answer the question honestly, please don't answer.  I don't need to be lied to by SashaMC or anyone else.  The monthly Intuition bill is punishment enough.

No follow up, so the moderator is a liar.

Why would we expect that everyone Intuit pays to be on this forum would have any other culture than SashaMC's culture of lying to customers?  Why would they go against the leadership?

I can't believe you even lied about caring about your reputation, SashaMC, before immediately switching to a clearly evasive answer.  The comfort level with lying by Intuit's employees is just a bit shocking for this Pollyanna.  I cannot imagine a life of lies.  That must be miserable.  It's not like a chronic liar can gain the regular company of non-liars, so it's a whole lifestyle of being a liar and being surrounded by liars--and for what?  Amazing decisions.  Bizarre.

@SashaMC 

Two year long thread about Intuit's PCI Compliance scam:

https://quickbooks.intuit.com/learn-support/en-us/employees-and-payroll/self-assessment-questionnair...

So you even lied about caring about your reputation?  What am I missing here?  How is this nnot a scam?  You are an anti-leader.

@SashaMC 

i'm sorry to report that [removed] of Intuit's office of the President threw you under the bus.

I filed a fraud complaint with the attorney general.  For supporting evidence, I included screenshots, some which include your posts.  I encourage you to consider speaking to your own attorney.