: Should we get an EV Certificate? Our regular SSL provider is offering EV certificates for under $US200, and it just so happens that the certificate for our B2B e-commerce site is expiring in

@Eichhorn148

The only downside with an EV certificate is the "paperwork" associated with proving you are who you say you are before the certificate will be issued. It doesn't make any difference to the server- or client-side processing aside from the certificate containing extra information, including the flags that browsers use to determine the certificate type.

So if the cost is small enough to be no matter, you don't mind the initial admin (and repeated admin work at renewal time) and the marketing guys want it, I see no reason why not. Just make sure the marketing people fully understand that if they change their scheme to mainly purple it is not in your power to make the green bar turn purple too!

Make sure the price is likely to stay though. If the usual price is much higher then you are going to be paying the higher price (or something more like it) when renewing the certificate in future.

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