Dear [First Name],

We are contacting you because our records indicate you are the primary contact or site administrator for [Organization Name], which uses Accounts Receivable 7, Cash Receipts 7, or Student Billing 7. Please share this important credit card information with other software users at your organization.

This fall the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) goes into effect. PCI DSS is a set of requirements developed by the major credit card companies to enhance credit card data security. All organizations that process, store, or transmit payment card data must be PCI DSS compliant or risk losing their ability to process credit card payments.

How will this affect my organization?
PCI DSS changes will affect Accounts Receivable 7, Cash Receipts 7, and Student Billing 7 payments beginning in version 7.77 of The Financial Edge, The Education Edge, and Blackbaud Student Information System, all of which will be released later this year. In these PCI DSS-compliant versions, the Credit Card Number field on payments will display only the last four digits of the credit card number. For new payments, users will not be able to enter the entire credit card number. For existing payments, on which the entire credit card number was previously displayed, the rest of the credit card number will be removed and users will not be able to retrieve this data.

To avoid data loss, you can export existing credit card information from your database before you update to version 7.77. We recommend you contact a Qualified Security Assessor for advice on how to secure the exported credit card information in accordance with PCI DSS.