IRIS CRM ISO Management & Merchant Services Blog

If your ISO isn’t already using SMS as a key tool for communicating with merchants, you’re failing to offer them one of the most convenient, powerful, and preferred channels available today. Despite its effectiveness, many companies fail to leverage the power of SMS because they simply don’t want to deal with managing it. But, today, […]

The more you know about your operations, your residuals, and your finances, the better you and your management team can steer your ISO towards future growth and profitability. Unfortunately, the payments space is complex, and the sea of data generated from your processing partners, your residuals, your agents, and your merchants can be hard to […]

Get your message directly into the palm of your lead’s hands at just the right time without manually typing or sending texts one-by-one using IRIS CRM’s new Automated SMS Status Triggers.  SMS is a great way to communicate with leads, as most people have their cell phone with them all of the time. Therefore, SMS […]

In its simplest terms, underwriting describes a company taking on financial risk in exchange for a fee. It happens constantly in countless industries – underwriting is a part of every credit card application, car financing, new insurance policy, mortgage, and many other parts of daily life. It’s also a part of payment processing.  Merchant underwriting […]

The IRIS CRM team is off to a busy start to the summer with numerous new features that make life easier, especially for administrators, including a couple of TSYS FSP specific features.  Clients can look forward to saving more time when managing their site and additional settings for tailoring the behavior of IRIS CRM to […]

Managing residuals is one of the most important aspects of maintaining ISO growth and maximizing long-term portfolio value. Unfortunately for many ISOs, the data they have access to on their own residuals is dense, jumbled, and poorly organized. Because of that, ISOs run into common problems when trying to use monthly residuals reports either as […]

In the electronic payments space, competition for merchants is fierce, and ISOs often earn fractions of a penny on each transaction they facilitate. Yet, despite those tough conditions, opportunity abounds for ISOs able to find new ways to compete and operate more efficiently. Arguably the best tool available to help ISOs do that is a […]

Merchant boarding is the process of passing a business recruited by an ISO to a payment processor to be reviewed and set up with a new merchant account. Every business that signs up for a merchant account goes through onboarding, and while the goals of onboarding are always the same, the process may differ slightly […]

IRIS CRM is happy to share that we have added NMI’s payment gateway as an option when taking payments through IRIS CRM. The new NMI Payment Gateway integration is easy to set up, simply follow the instructions detailed below or watch our video walkthrough. You will need access to the NMI Portal and admin-level permissions […]

Residuals are an ISO’s reason for operating, but they can also represent a major headache, especially as a portfolio grows and processor and agent relationships become more complex. As ISOs get bigger and bigger, the time and effort required to manually manage residuals data also skyrockets. Luckily, today’s payments technology solutions, like IRIS CRM, enable […]

IRIS CRM and NMI have teamed up to offer ISOs a full commerce enablement solution that makes it easier than ever to open up new revenue streams, improve service offerings, and gain an advantage over the competition.  IRIS CRM offers integrated boarding capability for NMI’s full line of gateway products and value-added services, enabling ISOs […]

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 […]

IRIS CRM is thrilled to announce our revolutionary Merchant Import API which allows third-parties to become their own datasource within IRIS CRM by creating merchant data such as transactions, deposits, retrievals, chargebacks and statements. By adding the ability to create new merchants and push merchant data into an IRIS CRM site from an external source, […]

ISO and ISV are two extremely common terms in the payments industry, but, despite a couple of common letters, the two acronyms describe companies that do very different work – independent sales organizations and independent software vendors. But while ISOs and ISVs have little in common on the surface, the rise of online digital payments […]

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 […]

Create a seamless account creation process using IRIS CRM’s new Zero-Code Web Form Builder to instantly board merchants.  Our new Web Form Builder allows any of your admins, with zero coding skills necessary, to build a fully functional web form that is mapped to your lead fields in minutes. The end result is a clean, […]