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Ecommerce stores may be forced to shut down if there is a data breach related to credit card processing, but it all depends on the circumstances. Why did the data breach occur? Where did the breach occur? What steps have been taken to prevent a reoccurance? Did the company meet PCI Security Compliance standards at the time of the breach? Who do you think will force you to shut down your site?

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Dydacomp Announces Release of Mail Order Manager Version 7i,

Dydacomp’s First Fully Certified PCI Solution.

TOTOWA, NJ, August 31, 2009 - Dydacomp, a leading provider of business automation software for multi-channel merchants, etailers, traditional retailers and cataloguers has released the latest version of its popular Mail Order Manager (M.O.M.) software solution, Version 7i.

With the deadline for PCI Data Security Standards Compliance around the corner, M.O.M. Version 7i is the company’s first PCI PA-DSS certified product, incorporating many of the now required business process changes for Dydacomp users, greatly reducing the pain of implementing the changes mandated by the major credit card issuers.

“PCI compliance is of vital importance to our customers as the way they will need to process credit cards and store data is about to drastically change,” said John V. Healy, Dydacomp CEO. “We’ve eliminated our customers’ primary pain point by pursuing and receiving PCI PA-DSS compliance certification for Version 7i as well as adding numerous customer requested enhancements. M.O.M. Version 7i represents Dydacomp’s ongoing commitment to customer-driven development, providing solutions that directly address the changing needs of the multichannel retail industry.”

While PCI compliance is the cornerstone of this release, Dydacomp M.O. M. Version 7i includes 15+ significant enhancements to Version 6 (on which the current release is built) to help customers sell more and spend less in the operation of their businesses. Key features include (but are not limited to) graphical and text on demand reporting, advanced automated drop shipping, EDI, branded gift cards as a payment method, detailed data transmission to QuickBooks®, and mobile access from your iPhone®, iPod Touch® or other PDA devices.

Dydacomp specializes in multi-channel software solutions for e-commerce, catalog, DRTV, and traditional point-of-sale business. Dydacomp’s popular Mail Order Manager® (M.O.M.) software, first released in 1986, is fully featured including integrated Ecommerce, inventory control, order entry, customer maintenance, credit card processing, list management, fulfillment and other related functions. Through M.O.M., online merchants using MIVA®, Shopsite®, Yahoo!®, eBay®, Amazon®, SiteLINK® and other carts or marketplaces can manage their entire back-office operations. Dydacomp’s client base, approaching 10,000 Mail Order Manager installations worldwide, consists of e-commerce, mail order, fulfillment, distribution and call-center companies.