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# Overview

VGS Show is the way to display sensitive data to an “end-user” without needing to pass through your systems. While securely showing the data, you can fully control the look and feel of the UI. VGS Show also offloads the PCI compliance burden (for specific use cases) by enabling the encrypted transmission of sensitive card data from Very Good Security directly to your cardholder or a PCI-compliant processor.

VGS Show is intended to display sensitive data back to end users, and not to your internal team. Revealing data to your internal teams puts you into PCI scope.

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### Advantages <a href="#advantages" id="advantages"></a>

* PCI Compliant
* Fully customizable styles
* Value formatting and masking
* Image reveal (mobile coming soon)
* Copy to clipboard button
* Flexible data structure
* Fast integration<br>

Also, check out [VGS Collect](/vault/developer-tools/vgs-collect.md) for securely collecting sensitive data.

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