Tag: Independent Sales Organization

Customer resource management (CRM) describes a type of software that focuses on collecting and utilizing customer data to improve all aspects of sales and support. The modern world is data-driven, and, today, even the simplest interactions can generate a wealth of lead and customer data – data that can be mined and used for everything […]

Payment facilitators are intermediaries that provide value to the payments industry by matching merchants with electronic payment processing services. The payment facilitator model is a relatively new one that offers some notable benefits to both the merchants they serve and themselves – namely a faster, smoother process, and more control over pricing and merchant selection.  […]

Calculating residuals is one of the most important tasks ISOs perform each month because residuals represent the vast majority of revenues. Monthly residuals also determine how much an ISO’s independent agents earn, so their accurate and timely calculations are extremely important to the core employees that bring in merchants and drive portfolio growth. Unfortunately, it […]

IRIS CRM is happy to share that we have expanded residuals reporting functionality for Fiserv FSP ISOs by adding support for the MM101 file to calculate residuals income.  Fiserv FSP ISOs can now use IRIS CRM to automatically calculate their monthly residuals income using the MM101 file. By eliminating manual calculations, ISOs can scale their […]

Signatures are at the heart of every business deal, but managing thousands of applications, contracts, and supporting documents is also one of the biggest headaches many independent sales organizations (ISOs) have to deal with on a regular basis. Electronic signature – or eSignature for short – is  a solution to that problem, enabling sales organizations […]

Customer resource management as a business philosophy describes collecting and using as much customer data as possible to improve every customer-facing aspect of operations, from marketing to sales to service and support, and beyond. CRM systems are powerful, advanced sales tools designed to help businesses achieve those goals. But as powerful as CRM is, just […]

IRIS CRM is the payments industry’s leading customer resource management system, and one of the reasons it’s so popular is that it does a lot for independent sales organizations and payment facilitators. But, because IRIS CRM does so much, even our most experienced users can almost certainly find ways to unlock even more value from […]

After a two year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, ETA’s TRANSACT conference returns to Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, April 12th – 14th, 2022. IRIS CRM is excited to be back in-person  at the payment industry’s most prominent event as a Platinum Sponsor.  In order to celebrate our return to TRANSACT, IRIS CRM will […]

Merchant boarding is one of the most important processes independent sales organizations perform on a daily basis. Today, technology allows ISOs to onboard new merchants faster and easier than ever before. Modern onboarding systems, like IRIS CRM’s TurboApp, enable ISOs to board new merchants in a matter of minutes by eliminating the most time-consuming steps […]

Growth is always an uphill battle, especially in a competitive industry like payment processing. The key to driving consistent growth is finding new and novel opportunities to provide more value for end merchants, and that can be difficult in an industry that – at least on the surface – can seem very homogeneous. ISOs looking […]

Payment service providers are companies that provide the infrastructure, service, and support systems merchants need to accept credit card payments, both in-store and online. The payments environment as a whole can be a bit complicated, but it helps to think of payment service providers as a pyramid, with a small number of acquiring banks at […]

Key Points:  Overall digital payments growth is set to hit 17.44% CAGR between 2022 and 2026.  Total transaction value of digital payments is expected to be $7.8 billion in 2022. Overall market growth will be driven by rapid growth in users while value per user remains flat.  The payment gateway market is estimated to see […]

ISO stands for independent sales organization – a type of company that plays an extremely important role in the payment processing ecosystem. In essence, ISOs are liaisons between merchants and payment processors who resell services on behalf of one or more partners in exchange for a small piece of the revenue from processed transactions.  ISOs […]

Residuals are a driving force behind one of the most important parts of the payments industry – independent sales organizations (ISOs). Residuals represent the reward that brings ISOs and new independent agents into the space, without whom a small handful of payment processors would be left to try to handle the millions of merchants across […]

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. […]