Category: ISOs

Online transaction disputes became both more frequent and more expensive in 2022, and merchants and ISOs have felt the impact. According to Sift’s Q4 2022 Trust & Safety Index, there were 35% more disputes in Q3 2022 than just a year and a half earlier, and the average value rose 16%, to $192.53, between 2021 […]

Recruiting new merchants is so important to residuals growth that ISOs can occasionally become completely focused on looking outwards for new sources of revenue. But it’s rare for any ISO’s portfolio to be perfectly optimized, meaning you may find that some of the best growth opportunities available for an ISO actually come from your existing […]

A “hard market” is an insurance industry term describing a time when market conditions and risk appetites limit growth and things become particularly difficult for the front-line professionals – agents and brokers – looking to acquire new business. It’s an equally apt term to describe what the payments industry may be facing in 2023 and […]

Payments is an extremely competitive game at the best of times. But, with 2023 shaping up to be a tough year for the economy, the payments industry is likely to see some stagnation in growth, and ISOs and PayFacs may find themselves competing for a piece of a potentially shrinking pie. The good news is […]

IRIS CRM is happy to share our newest functionality for TSYS FSP ISOs to update your merchants’ Daily Fee Indicator without having to switch platforms. We have added a new ticket type – TSYS – Update Daily Fee Indicator (Auto) – that works like our other automated TSYS maintenance tickets. These ticket types allow TSYS […]

ISO agent programs help pair talented salespeople with independent sales organizations (ISOs) looking for help recruiting new merchants. They’re just one method of entry into the merchant services space, but they offer some notable benefits to independent agents, including simplicity, structure, security, and more. The following is a brief rundown of what ISO agent programs […]

To the average person, ISO is the acronym used by the International Organization for Standards. To photographers, it describes the light sensitivity of a digital camera or a piece of film. But to banks and merchants it means something very different. In banking and payments, ISO stands for independent sales organization – a type of […]

At its core, a merchant services CRM – also known as a payments CRM or ISO CRM  – does all the same things traditional CRMs do. It streamlines lead collection and management, speeds up and enhances the sales process, enables higher-quality ongoing service and support, and saves time and resources across a wide variety of […]

As a result of Global Payments recently rolling out support for Daily Discount within its ELAPP boarding tool, IRIS CRM is also now proud to announce added support for Daily Discount when boarding merchants via TurboApp to the ELAPP platform.  Clients using TurboApp to board merchants to TSYS ELAPP are able to continue leveraging the […]

Coming hot on the heels of the initial release of our Web Form Builder, we are pleased to announce the addition of E-Signature capabilities for a complete web form experience.  With E-Signature you can instantly transform your simple merchant data collection form into an end-to-end merchant processing application (MPA) that can quickly and easily be […]

IRIS CRM is proud to announce our latest feature release to streamline collaboration between clients – Lead Data Sharing. Lead Data Sharing eliminates the tedious processes of manual lead data entry, exporting and importing lead reports, or API development for IRIS CRM clients sharing leads with one another.  Lead data can be sent with the […]

IRIS CRM is happy to announce our ability to now support multiple NMI reseller accounts as the latest improvement to the NMI and IRIS CRM integration. You may find that as your business grows over time, whether it be from acquisitions or new processing relationships, that you have more than one set of NMI reseller […]