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Outsource card data management—all the benefits, no headaches.

Collect card data, send it to processors or partners, and store it as if it's in your database while satisfying up to 95% of the compliance requirements that come with PCI.

 

MAKING SENSITIVE DATA VALUABLE FOR

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Why Tokenize Card Data with Basis Theory?

Enjoy real autonomy and control over your payment information. Collect, secure, and use card data without it touching your environment using Basis Theory's PCI Level 1 infrastructure, developer-friendly services, and flexible tokens.

Basis Theory allows organizations to:

  • Collect card data using customizable forms you can embed into your application
  • Secure card data in a PCI Level 1 compliant and SOC2 certified environment
  • Use tokens to send and receive card data or tokens with any payment processor or endpoint

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How Does Tokenization Help PCI Compliance?

 

Handling or storing card information can put an organization in scope with hundreds of PCI requirements.

Data tokenization significantly reduces the time, cost, and reporting scope of your PCI Level 1 certification by replacing card data in your system with tokens.

Basis Theory customers are seeing up to a 95% reduction in the time and effort it takes to become PCI compliant.

Tokenizing Card Data for PCI Compliance

Made for both developers and the business

  • Spin up your own dedicated cardholder data environment (CDE) in under 30 seconds
  • Share data with any payment service provider, partner, or endpoint
  • Convert customers with customizable and embeddable forms
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"Basis Theory made us PCI compliant in a day, rather than months. The team has been a delight to work with and they beat other tokenization platforms on cost."
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Ethan Lacey
CEO at UNION

Easily Connect with Your Current PSP

A flexible API that connects with any existing payment service provider you choose.

How Basis Theory Reduces PCI Compliance Scope

1) Securing your data

 

Collect and protect data in Minutes

Capture sensitive data without it touching your systems using forms embedded right into your application.
 
 

Managed encryption services

Secure your data automatically with the latest encryption methods and built-in Key Management Services.
 
 

Compliant hosted environments

Eliminate scope with your own configurable Tenant, a dedicated environment within our PCI Level 1 and SOC 2 compliant environment.
 

2) Using your data

Custom masking

Reveal only what's needed with automatically-generated obfuscated text.
 

Sharing your data

Send and receive cardholder data with any payment service provider or third-party processor.
 

Searchable

Recognize your data with a single value to uniquely identify the contents of a token.

3) Managing your data

Integrated controls

Govern, support, and optimize your implementation through our API, or supported Infrastructure as Code tools — like Terraform.
 

Enforce access policies

Meet policy requirements around access controls and permissions with our RBAC-friendly classifications and impact levels.
 

Ops support

Quickly debug, review logs, manage users, and much more by connecting Basis Theory to your existing admin tools. 

CHECK OUT THE DEMO

Build secure applications and PCI-compliant workflows in minutes

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Ready to learn more about credit card tokenization with Basis Theory?