# Use a hosted payment page, and save the card

[Choose an integration method](https://devportal-simpay-sbx.winkpg.io/docs/decide/integration-method.md): Three questions about where your customers enter their card details, and what that means for the PCI evidence you have to produce every year.

The same hosted page, asked to store the card so you can charge it again without the customer present.

**Your answers so far**

- Where does the payment happen? Online, or over the phone.
- Who renders the fields your customer types the card into? A payment page this platform hosts.
- Will you charge the same customer again when they are not there? Yes. I need to store the card and charge it later.

**What to build**

Take the first payment through a hosted payment page and ask it to save the card. You store the token we return, not the card number, and every later charge is an API call against that token. Keep the customer's consent to store the card on record: the card networks require it, and you are the one who collected it.

**What this means for PCI**

Typically eligible for **SAQ A**. Saving the card does not widen your scope, because the card number is captured by the hosted page and what you keep is a token.

This is guidance rather than a compliance determination. Which questionnaire you are eligible for depends on your full environment, so confirm it with your QSA or your acquirer before you rely on it.

**Worth knowing**

- Charging a stored card is a different request from the first payment, and it has to say why the charge is being made.
- Give the customer a way to remove a stored card. A token you cannot delete outlives the consent that justified it.

**Where to go next**

- [Quickstart: hosted payment page](https://devportal-simpay-sbx.winkpg.io/docs/guides/quickstart-hosted-payment-page.md)
- [Blueprint: save a card and charge it later](https://devportal-simpay-sbx.winkpg.io/docs/blueprints/save-a-card-and-charge-it-later.md)
- [Reusing saved cards](https://devportal-simpay-sbx.winkpg.io/docs/guides/reusing-saved-cards.md)

- [Start over](https://devportal-simpay-sbx.winkpg.io/docs/decide/integration-method.md): go back to the first question.

## See also

- [All documentation](https://devportal-simpay-sbx.winkpg.io/llms.txt): the machine-readable index of every public page on this site.