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Don’t Require CVV for Stored Cards

Don’t require CVV on purchases made using stored cards. Require CVV only for initial purchase, but not for purchases that are made using stored cards.

Author

Andrew Wikel

Current Status

Closed

Last updated: September 17, 2025

  1. Andrew Wikel says:

    For vaulted transactions (such as recurring or card-on-file payments), regulations do not permit merchants to store or reuse the CVV after the initial authorization. The PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) explicitly forbids storing the CVV (also called CVC2, CVV2, CID) after a transaction is authorized, even if encrypted or tokenized—this restriction applies to all forms of storage, including within vaulting solutions, databases, logs, or backups.

    The CVV is required for charging, and so will need to be user input each time.