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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.  […]

What makes a payments CRM different from the dozens of non-industry-specific tools on the market today? At the highest level, customer resource management tools are software platforms designed to help sales organizations do more with the data generated from every interaction they have with a lead or customer. CRM as a practice and a technology […]

Agreement Express has recently announced a game-changing integration with IRIS CRM to its ScanXpress automated underwriting tool that will allow mutual customers of IRIS CRM and Agreement Express to significantly streamline and even fully automate their due diligence when onboarding new merchants, enabling unparalleled speed for underwriting and time-to-revenue. In essence, the integration between Agreement […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

A Payment Facilitator, or PayFac, is a company that provides payment processing services to merchants looking to accept credit and debit cards. PayFacs work under one or more payment processors, operating in a layer of the industry between processors and merchants. They offer merchants a variety of services, including merchant accounts, ongoing support, payment hardware […]

Independent sales organizations (ISOs) and payment facilitators (PayFacs) both act as intermediaries between merchants and payment processors, making them parallel channels in the overall payments ecosystem. However, despite their high-level similarities, there are some major operational differences between how ISOs and PayFacs operate. These include the responsibilities they carry out, their relationships with payment processors, […]

We are pleased to announce that IRIS CRM is now integrated with Fiserv reporting for payment facilitators! Payment facilitators can now view Fiserv merchant account information, deposits, adjustments, retrievals, and chargebacks right from within IRIS CRM. IRIS CRM’s Fiserv Reporting for Payment Facilitators integration ensures that you have a stable, fast, and automated data feed […]