No, and nobody can sell you that. Compliance involves your merchant agreement, your processor's requirements, which self-assessment questionnaire applies to you, and how your staff handle cards day to day. Those are yours.

What we do is the technical half: separate the payment devices from everything else, build and monitor the network, patch what needs patching, and document all of it so the evidence exists when someone asks. We are not a qualified security assessor and we won't sign your questionnaire.

It is the most common thing we find walking into a store: customer Wi-Fi on the same network as the registers. It should be a separate network that cannot reach anything else, with its own slice of bandwidth so a busy Saturday doesn't slow the lanes down.

Fixing it is usually a configuration change and sometimes a piece of hardware. It is not a big project, which is what makes it worth doing.

We support the workstations, printers, tablets, scanners, and network your POS runs on, and we coordinate with your POS vendor when the issue is inside their software. Your staff shouldn't be the ones relaying messages between two vendors while a line forms.

Ideally, the same build as the last one. We design one standard for a store — network, segmentation, Wi-Fi, phones, cabling — so the next opening is a checklist rather than a reinvention. Phones and file access stay consistent across locations, and the whole thing is one bill and one number to call.

A real person answers the phone, and we're local, so hands on site isn't a scheduling exercise. Monitoring catches a fair amount before your staff notice. We'd also rather set the store up so a single failure doesn't stop every lane at once.

Yes, and the low-voltage work is done in-house rather than subcontracted. Cameras, signage, and music players also belong on their own segment rather than next to a register, which is easier to get right when the same team runs the cable and configures the network.