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Originally Posted by George_B
The information is required by our payment processor as part of their verification process in order to combat possible fraud. They are PCI compliant which means your information will be kept private at all times!
Whenever you purchase something online you are asked for your credit card information and your billing address, telephone number. This is standard procedure and I don't know of anyone who doesn't follow it...
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My processor (Wells Fargo + authorize.net) does not need a phone number when submitting transactions. Technically the only thing required by API is a plain card number, but it would be shooting yourself in the foot not to run other validation checks. A phone number is not even something you can validate on like CVV and AVS, so there's no point in even asking for one just to run a credit card.