Category: ISOs
Efficient and Effective Calling is a Fundamental Driver of ISO Success
ISOs operate in an extremely competitive environment and outperforming your competition in both recruiting and service is key to maintaining healthy growth and maximizing residuals. That makes your independent agents some of the most important members of your team, and the job they do one of the most important functions of your ISO. Any tool […]
Go Mobile: Unlock the Full Power of Your Business with IRIS CRM’s New Mobile App
Your customer resource management platform is the hub that brings all of your ISO’s lead management, sales operations, merchant service delivery, and administration into one, centralized point of control. That makes CRM software a mission-critical tool – one that needs to be available to your employees at all times, not just when they’re at their […]
How Does the IRS Classify a Merchant Acquiring Entity and What Reporting is Required?
Reporting is a big deal in the payments industry for obvious reasons. But with acquiring banks, payment processors, independent sales organizations, and merchants all playing a roll in getting money from point A to point B, even with the kind of advanced reporting and sales tools provided by platforms like IRIS CRM, keeping track of […]
The Importance of Merchant Data Sharing: Why Your ISO Needs Frictionless Sharing Capability
Customer resource management platforms are mission-critical software tools that include a wide variety of sales, productivity, and reporting features. And while CRMs are all about cross-organization integration and centralized control of your company’s tasks, one thing they traditionally aren’t good at is talking to each other. That’s a problem for ISOs that need to move […]
ISO Merchant-Level Metrics – How CRM Offers an Improved Awareness of Merchant Data and Performance
It can be extremely easy to ignore your ISO’s merchant-level metrics because they drill information down to a level you may not think you need. Portfolio-wide and processor-wide metrics provide a much larger-scale overview of your ISO’s profitability, and with profitability at the top of mind, it’s tempting to dig no further. But that’s a […]
Mobile CRM and the Many Advantages of Mobile Lead Management
Customer resource management software is a mission-critical tool for all ISOs that prioritize growth. The sales and productivity features offered by high-end CRM platforms are invaluable to finding, signing, and serving new merchants, and, in turn, to your ISO’s residuals. But the major flaw in most traditional CRM platforms is that they’re web-only, requiring users […]
How to Become an ISO and Start Selling Merchant Services
Payment processing can be a very profitable industry, and as a result, it attracts its fair share of entrepreneurial individuals. Independent sales organizations are one of the most business types for new entrants breaking into the industry because they offer both the potential for excellent earnings as well as the flexibility to operate as an […]
TurboApp Merchant Boarding – How IRIS CRM’s Revolutionary Boarding Tool Can Benefit Your ISO
Merchant onboarding is one of the key functions your ISO’s team handles. Once an agent has recruited a new merchant and closed the deal with a signed MPA, it’s the boarding process that facilitates getting that merchant to a point where they’re actually processing transactions and, most importantly, earning your ISO residuals! That means handling […]
IRIS CRM Help ISOs Improve Their Operational Efficiency
Inefficiencies drive up costs in all industries, and the cost is the mortal enemy of profit. In the payment processing industry, eliminating inefficiencies can both reduce costs and help to maximize an ISOs residual portfolio, and IRIS CRM – the payments industry’s leading customer resource management tool – has been designed specifically to help with […]
What to Look for in a Merchant Services Calling Center Platform
There is no shortage of calling to be done in the merchant services industry, and whether it’s outbound sales calls being made by your team of agents, or inbound support calls coming in from your client merchants, your ISO stands to benefit greatly from anything that streamlines and enhances the process. As a result, many […]