Several weeks ago, I wrote about PCI certification. A certification is valid for one year and therefore needs to be renewed.

Visa keeps track of the registry @ http://www.visa.com/splisting/searchGrsp.do

According to Visa:

“For service providers published on the Registry, if Visa does not receive the appropriate revalidation documents:

• Within 1 – 60 days upon expiry of the validation documents, the service provider will be highlighted in Yellow on the Registry.
• Within 61 – 90 days upon expiry of the validation documents, the service provider will be highlighted in Red on the Registry.
• After 90 days, the service provider will be removed from the Registry.

Whereas you shop online or whether you outsourced your online payments to an external provider, it might be worth periodically checking the online status of their PCI certification.