Hi Mahlon,
Many of our compatible payment gateways allow for the use of tokens. This allows the gateway to store the credit card information on their end, as they are PCI complaint and allows us to store a token used to access the stored credit card information from them on a repetitive basis. We do not need to be PCI compliant for this.
This is the current direction that we will be taking with regards to PCI compliance. This is in our roadmap, but we haven’t yet launched Method New and we haven't yet started work on this. As such, I cannot provide an ETA for when this will be available.
-Audisho