Tag: customer relationship management

After much anticipation and a lot of hard work, IRIS CRM is proud to share that we will be releasing our new user interface in the coming weeks. There is much to look forward to in the new UI as it’s not just a coat of paint on existing functionality, but is chock full of […]

Payment processing is a lucrative industry with opportunities abound and good money to be made at all levels of involvement. The entry point for many people looking to earn a slice of the payments pie is merchant service sales as an independent agent. Independent agents play an important role in assisting the larger players in […]

As your company starts 2022 with fresh energy and a strategic plan for how to achieve the year’s goals, it’s important to choose the right tools to succeed. IRIS CRM is the payment industry’s leading, all-in-one CRM solution with features to manage and automate your workflows from initial lead capture all the way through merchant […]

IRIS CRM is thrilled to announce new Paysafe Reporting and TSYS Backend Boarding Integrations! ISOs can now connect their Paysafe merchants, both Fiserv and TSYS, to IRIS CRM to receive daily reporting data and account information. Our Paysafe boarding integration has also been improved to allow ISOs to select TSYS as the backend when boarding […]

If 2021 had a theme, it was the global covid-19 pandemic transitioning from something novel and unknown to something we knew and were learning to live with. Now, with another year behind us, the theme of 2022 is set to be the application of the lessons we’ve learned throughout the pandemic in a post-pandemic world. […]

Dive deeper into your merchant reporting with the additional breakdown of card type volume and transaction count. From the My Merchants page, you can now add the volume and transaction for the major card brands to your merchant reporting, plus other trackable card types including Fleet Cards, Pin-Debit, EBT, and Gift Cards, as well as […]

IRIS CRM offers your ISO the ability to compete better in a tight payments industry by improving lead management and sales, merchant onboarding, residuals management, decision making, merchant service, and much more. But, unlike many CRMs, improving operations with IRIS CRM doesn’t tie your agents, managers, and operations staff to their desks, thanks to the […]

Payment processing is a competitive industry. The second a merchant leaves your ISO to switch to a competitor, you lose an ongoing source of residuals, making it crucial to your ISO’s growth and long-term value that you keep your merchants as happy as possible. With that in mind, the following are four simple but highly […]

Losing revenue to returns and chargebacks is not only a risk to your merchants, but your merchant services business as well. They are an inevitable part of running a business, but minimizing them is crucial to your bottom line. IRIS CRM’s new Risk Reporting helps you identify sources of risk in order to mitigate the […]

A merchant services CRM is a mission-critical piece of software for all modern ISOs looking to outcompete and outperform the rest of an extremely competitive industry. The core of any merchant services CRM is its suite of sales tools – lead management and sales process delivery tools that help your ISO find better leads and […]

In part one, we discussed the basics of getting your ISO off the ground, and the significant amount of time, work, and money that goes into becoming a registered ISO. In part two, we’ll look at what happens once you’re registered and it’s time to start recruiting. As difficult as the registration was, the real […]

When a customer is unhappy but can’t get a refund from a merchant, card companies give them the option of disputing the charges. When that happens, the card companies also give the merchant a chance to make the case for why the charge should be upheld – known as a dispute response. Unfortunately, many merchants […]

IRIS CRM residuals reporting for sub-ISOs just leveled up thanks to the addition of the agent split field in the Residual Details report. By having the agent split information available in the detailed residuals reporting, sub-ISOs can easily export the detailed report from the IRIS CRM site of the ISO they’re working with and import […]

Email is a necessity of modern business, but despite the level of dependence we have on it, it’s notoriously inefficient. Gmail and Outlook are the two undisputed kings of business email today, and both include tools designed to help you chip away at the inefficiencies of the medium. The following is a list of five […]

TurboApp is IRIS CRM’s built-in automated boarding tool, which integrates with seven top payment processors and puts blazing-fast merchant onboarding at the fingertips of even the most inexperienced ISO staff. TurboApp offers ISOs like yours a wide variety of benefits, covering everything from the speed of your onboarding process, to its accuracy and success, to […]

The IRIS CRM team had a fantastic time last week at WSAA 2021 connecting with long time industry friends and acquaintances as well as making many new connections. Speaking with other passionate payments industry professionals in-person for the first time in almost 2 years was invigorating for us and we’re excited about the many opportunities […]

New entrants into the payments industry have a lot of acronyms and contractions to sift through, and one that’s becoming more and more common is PayFac – short for payment facilitator. The PayFac model is readily gaining popularity across the industry, but merchants and industry pros alike who are more familiar with independent sales organizations […]

There are many moving parts in the payment industry, and keeping track of everyone involved in processing a credit card transaction can be a difficult task, especially for newer merchants just getting started. Independent sales organizations, or ISOs for short, are one of the most important types of business in the industry, and it’s important […]