Have you ever needed to transfer one or merchants from another IRIS CRM site to your site to support your merchants through a single source? IRIS CRM’s Merchant Data Sharing feature is here to deliver client-to-client transfers quickly and securely without requiring IT resources to set up and maintain these data transfers. ISOs with […]
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IRIS CRM recently announced our ground-breaking partnership with Conformance Technologies – one of the world’s leading providers of risk assessment and conformance tools for small and midsize businesses (SMBs). With this new partnership, IRIS CRM has fully integrated Conformance Technologies’ PreComm ToolKit™, one of the most powerful cloud-based due diligence tools available today. This new […]
Not all platforms are created equally, and not all are CRMs targeted specifically towards the payments industry. Selecting the right tool for the unique challenges your ISO faces is key, but with the right CRM software underpinning your operations, organization-wide improvements in productivity and work-quality can be unlocked with relative ease. A customer resource management […]
Considering how long it’s been around, telemarketing is still a surprisingly misunderstood field. There are a lot of misconceptions floating around, many of which are unfairly negative and paint telephone sales in a bad light. Those myths are harmful because they stop companies who would otherwise benefit from engaging with call centers from doing do, […]
Your residuals are the reason your ISO is in business in the first place. They represent the majority of your revenue, and the growth and long-term success of your portfolio is also the main driver of your company’s value. They’re also the reason your independent agents are in business and the carrot that attracts the […]
Merchant data sharing is becoming more and more important in the payments industry as independent sales organizations look for ways to diversify their revenue streams and establish partnerships both inside and outside of the payment processing space. To facilitate those new revenue streams, IRIS CRM now includes a new merchant data sharing feature that allows […]
When a new merchant partners with an ISO and submits a signed merchant processing application (MPA), their data and supporting documentation needs to be submitted to the payment processor for verification, due diligence, and approval. That process is known as boarding, and it’s an extremely important part of the new merchant acquisition process for all […]
With a reenergized COVID-19 ripping much of the southern and western U.S., businesses are once again facing the possibility that shutdown orders may be necessary to ensure public health. While the government is currently in the process of negotiating the HEALS act to provide a second round of COVID-19 tax relief, businesses currently facing hardships […]
Part Two – Boosting Deliverability with Proper Authentication and Configuration In part one of our series on email best practices and how they impact your outgoing deliverability, we talked about domains – the identifying address your emails originate from, and how properly utilizing subdomains can protect the deliverability of your outgoing email by building walls […]
Part One – Protecting Your Outgoing Email Reputation and Deliverability Rates with Subdomains Email marketing is deceptively simple. You create an email or a series of messages, load them into your autoresponder, click a button, and out they go – a successful email blast! But there is so much more to it than that, and, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
How IRIS CRM can Save You Time by Eliminating “Waiting for the Beep.” Telephone sales is a numbers game in which an agent’s success is highly influenced by how many sales calls they can make each day. But in a high-volume environment, for every lead that picks up and engages in a call, there’s an […]
IRIS CRM participated as an exhibitor & co-sponsor at the TRANSACT Connect conference. The event was a first-of-its-kind and it came at an extremely critical time for the industry – a time when selling online has never been more important. During the event, IRIS CRM explained, how to use our Zapier Integration to help you sell […]
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 […]