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.