Telemarketers and Outside Agents
Cypress Bay Solutions appears to market its services through a combination of preset telephone appointments and independent sales agents. These combined strategies are typical of companies within the Certified Payment Processing network and are often linked to elevated complaint totals from clients. We are currently able to find a moderate number of negative Cypress Bay Solutions reviews about the company’s sales tactics, with a repeating theme of undisclosed fees and unwanted sales calls. This does not compare favorably to our list of best credit card processors.
Complaints From Sales Agents
There are also dozens of public Cypress Bay Solutions complaints from current and former employees that describe bogus appointments, worthless leads, and discomfort with the company’s reputation among businesses. These Cypress Bay Solutions reviews sound very similar to complaints filed against other First American Payment Systems companies, which leads us to believe that Cypress Bay Solutions has embraced its parent company’s sales model wholeheartedly. Below are a few sample complaints from Glassdoor:
They just pull leads from Google and like to call potenial customers liars. When they are the ones lieing about calling and setting up the appointments
Like every sales job, they make the potential sound so amazing. They tell you they set appointments for you so you don’t have to cold call… Sounds great, but it’s a flat out LIE!! I went to FOUR leads on my first day and NOBODY knew I was coming! felt that much more stupid… We’re suppose to lie and say “no I’m not a sales person,” but the merchants know instantly. No different than any other sales job. PLUS, they are not sending me generated leads every day. When I want one I have to call them. Go to one, call them for another one. The only thing I accomplished was wasting gas driving to these different companies to look like an ignorant sales rep in training. The first guy that called even left a sad puppy voicemail on my phone because I started to back out of training the first time– when I realized I had to drain BOTH my tablet AND phone for 6 hours to do their training webinar. I found a way, managed to stick it out, only to find out they don’t stick to their word!
As a new agent selling CC services and equipment you are given a few hour webinar training and that is it. They don’t provide any real training on rates charged but tell you to call your team leader when you get stuck. The intro package has no promotional materials to leave with prospective customers or even some blank business cards with a logo and a place to put your name and phone number. New agents are set up for frustration and failure. Fully commission or mileage reimbursement so have to rely on closing sales alone.
More of the Same
We have assigned Cypress Bay a “D” rating in this section based on the fact that it uses the same playbook as its low-rated predecessors. If you have been deceived by a Cypress Bay Solutions sales agent, you can renegotiate your rates with a third-party statement audit.
