To meet increased demand for full commerce enablement solutions, NMI and IRIS CRM’s joint offerings better enable ISO, ISV, bank and fintech partners SCHAUMBURG, IL – JANUARY 18, 2022 – NMI, a leading full commerce enablement technology company, today announced it has acquired IRIS CRM, a premier merchant services CRM and comprehensive merchant management platform […]
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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 […]

IRIS CRM is excited to announce the release of our Maverick Payments reporting integration to bring even more merchant data directly into your IRIS CRM site. ISOs working with Maverick Payments are now able to have merchant data automatically populated in IRIS CRM. Not only will you be able to see overall portfolio volume and […]

Much like independent sales organizations, payment facilitators are companies that act as the liaison between processors and the merchants on the frontlines of electronic payments. PayFacs exist for two reasons: to help payment processors serve far more merchants than they could on their own, and to make it faster and easier for small and medium-sized […]

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 […]

Save your staff time and avoid forgotten tickets that are an essential part of your sales and merchant setup workflows with new Automated Helpdesk Ticket Workflows in IRIS CRM. Using Lead Status Age and State Triggers, tickets can be auto-created based on where a lead is in your sales funnel or how long a merchant […]

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 […]

Disputes occur when customers contact their credit card companies and request a charge be forcibly reversed when a refund has been denied. Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and American Express all offer their cardholders the ability to open a dispute whenever they think that a purchase has been made fraudulently or a merchant has failed to deliver […]

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 processing is an extremely competitive industry, and independent sales organizations (ISOs) and payment facilitators (PayFacs) that want to grow and thrive need to find ways to work smarter and outcompete the field. Building a tighter, more efficient sales process from the top of the funnel on down is one of the best ways to […]

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 […]

Independent agents are a key part of the payments ecosystem. Many processors and ISOs go out of their way to build programs that enable agents and create the conditions for success because they know that attracting the best talent possible maximizes everyone’s success and earnings. The following represent five of the best ISO agent programs […]

We hope that you have had a chance to interact with Luis Feliz, Support Manager at IRIS CRM. If you have not, we are excited to shine the spotlight on Luis because we are extremely proud of his hard work and dedication to client satisfaction. Luis joined IRIS CRM in April 2020, bringing with him […]

An ISO’s profitability depends on having a large portfolio of top-quality merchants. Acquiring those merchants is no easy task in an industry as competitive as payments, making it extremely important that ISOs look for any advantage they can get. Customer resource management systems represent a powerful and cost-effective way for ISOs to gain that all-important […]