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Protect your business from skimmer losses.

A single skimmer at your counter can trigger chargebacks, downtime, and cleanup — and quietly cost you the thing that's hardest to win back: customer trust. SkimGuard catches a compromised terminal fast and shows your customers you're watching.

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SkimGuard detects skimmers that transmit a Bluetooth signal. A clear result is not a guarantee that a terminal is safe — it cannot detect a purely mechanical or non-transmitting skimmer. Always inspect your card readers physically as well.

What a skimmer really costs

The bill is bigger than the fraud itself.

When a skimmer lands on one of your terminals, the stolen-card fraud is only the start. The costs stack up in ways that don't show on a single line item:

  • Chargebacks and refunds. Disputed transactions come with fees and staff time to fight or eat them.
  • Operational disruption. Pulling terminals offline, re-routing customers to other lanes, and investigating what happened all interrupt normal business.
  • Remediation and forensic cleanup. Confirming which devices were affected and returning to a known-good state takes real work and often outside help.
  • Lost trust and reputation. Often the biggest hit — once a location gets known as a place where cards get stolen, customers go elsewhere, and that damage outlasts the incident.
On liability

Who ultimately pays for skimmer-related fraud varies by your payment processor agreement and jurisdiction — there's no single rule, and a business can carry meaningful exposure. Review your processor terms and talk to your acquirer about where the responsibility sits for your setup. Whatever the answer, catching a skimmer early is cheaper than cleaning up after it.

How SkimGuard helps

Shrink the window — and show you're watching.

A skimmer's damage grows with every hour it operates undetected. SkimGuard is built to cut that time down and protect the trust that a fraud incident erodes:

  • Catch it fast. Continuous monitoring surfaces a compromised terminal quickly — instead of learning about it after a wave of chargebacks traced back to your address weeks later.
  • Signal it publicly. A public “scanned recently” badge lets customers see the location is actively watched, which helps preserve confidence at the register.
  • Cover every lane. Staff scanning, always-on desktop agents, or your existing Wi-Fi can watch every reader, so no terminal is a blind spot.

SkimGuard listens for the Bluetooth signals many skimmers use to transmit stolen data — both Bluetooth Low Energy and Bluetooth Classic — and keeps adding new wireless detection technologies over time as the threat environment evolves.

“No data” means unknown

A terminal that hasn't been scanned recently reads as “no data” — which means unknown, not safe. Detection reduces your exposure; it doesn't replace physically inspecting readers and training staff to spot tampering.

Document it for PCI DSS 9.5 & 10

That physical-inspection routine is also a PCI requirement. Both tiers include a payment-terminal inspection logbook that helps you document and meet PCI DSS v4.0 Requirement 9.5 — device inventory, tamper inspections with photos, risk-based frequency and staff training — and keeps an immutable audit trail of those actions of the kind Requirements 10.2 and 10.3 expect, exportable for your assessor. It helps you document and meet these controls; it is not itself a certification of PCI compliance.

Two tiers, priced per location

  • Handheld — your staff scan terminals with the SkimGuard app whenever they want a point-in-time check.
  • Automated — always-on monitoring via desktop agents and/or your existing Wi-Fi, with the handheld app included free.

Want the technical detail on how monitoring works? See for business for pricing and tiers, payment security for the bigger picture, and network skimmer detection for turning your existing access points into sensors.

Get protected

Stop a skimmer before it costs you customers.

Set up SkimGuard for your locations, or talk to sales about coverage across every lane. See the for-business page for current pricing.

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