IVR Payments

If you're still relying on staff to take payments over the phone manually, it's worth asking: Is this really the most secure, efficient, or cost-effective method available?

Datatel’s CryptoIVR™ IVR payments solution offers an automated and secure way for your business to handle Phone Payments, reduce your PCI scope, and enhance your customers’ card data security. When combined with the power of Guidewire, your Insurance Company will achieve rapid implementation and immediate operational benefits, making for a powerful billing platform combination.

Businesses accepting payments over the phone need a system that is secure, efficient, and easy for customers to use. Interactive Voice Response (IVR) payment solutions provide a reliable way to automate transactions while reducing security risks and ensuring compliance with Payment Card Industry (PCI) requirements. Whether an organization is implementing IVR Payments for the first time or looking to replace manual processing, IVR Payment technology offers options that fit a variety of needs.

Handling credit card payments over the phone is a vital function of many businesses. As a customer service manager, you play a key role in ensuring these transactions are secure, efficient, and compliant with industry standards. One critical aspect you can’t overlook is PCI Compliance.

For many organizations, handling payments over the phone is just part of the process. Patients and customers call in, provide their credit card details, and staff manually enter the information. On the surface, it seems like a routine task. But when you look closer, it becomes clear that this approach is creating unnecessary costs, inefficiencies, and security risks.

For rural broadband providers, the stakes are even higher. These companies aren’t just businesses—they’re part of the community. But when disconnect notices go out, staff get overwhelmed, call centers are slammed, and tensions rise. That’s where Datatel’s 24/7 IVR Phone payment solution comes in.

Today, businesses that accept payments over the phone are looking for ways to minimize risk, enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve customer experience. While real-time integrations are often considered the ideal solution for automating these payment processes, not all organizations have the resources or readiness to implement such systems. For these situations, stand-alone IVR Payments systems combined with batching data exchange provide a practical path to modernizing payment systems, future-proofing operations, and significantly reducing the risks associated with handling payments manually over the phone.

Broadband providers face a unique set of challenges, when accepting customer payments by phone, including managing operational costs, meeting customer expectations, and ensuring data security. Interactive Voice Response - IVR Payment technology provide a powerful solution to these challenges, enabling providers to automate payment processes, enhance efficiency, and improve customer satisfaction.

Having staff accept credit card payments over the phone can be a convenient option for businesses and organizations, but it also brings with it specific security obligations under the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). For organizations that manually enter customer credit card data into a virtual terminal (VT), compliance isn’t just about using a PCI-compliant virtual terminal or PCI compliant card entry application; it begins well before the card information is keyed in. Let’s explore what the PCI DSS requires for handling these transactions, particularly under the Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) C-VT, and discuss some alternatives that can reduce your PCI compliance burden.

IVR Payments are a great way for businesses to accept payments over the phone in a way that is fully automated, available 24-7, and secure. With IVR Payments Solutions you can offer your customers the convenience of easily paying by phone while you enjoy the security of knowing you are PCI compliant!