Payments & Commerce Customer Support Global

Customer support automation, built for a global payments leader.

A global payments leader with 30M+ devices across 150+ countries cut a sixth off every support call, releasing nearly 3,000 support hours a year, worth $166,500.

16.17%Reduction in average handle time, first trial cohort
$166,500Estimated annualized net savings, at trial-cohort scale
10 minTime returned to every agent, every working day
01 · Client

A global leader in payment and commerce technology.

The company provides payment and commerce solutions to businesses worldwide, with 30M+ devices deployed across 150+ countries. Its technology supports merchants, retailers, and financial institutions across markets.

RegionGlobal, 150+ countries
FunctionPayments & commerce technology
Employees~5,000 worldwide
Devices deployed30M+ payment and commerce devices
Founded1981
Agents in scope200
02 · The problem

Where the 10 minutes a call were going.

Every interaction took 10 minutes, much of it spent retrieving information rather than diagnosing the issue.

01

No single source of truth

Customer records, device identity, site configuration, product documentation and troubleshooting procedures each lived in a different system, and no single one held a complete answer.

02

Six systems, every call

Agents moved between 5 or 6 interfaces before troubleshooting could even start, while the customer waited on hold.

03

Senior expertise absorbed by routine work

Experienced agents spent significant portions of the day on routine L1 inquiries, reducing their availability for complex escalations.

04

Cost scaled with headcount

Against roughly $20 million in annual support operating cost, volume growth translated directly into hiring pressure.

03 · Native limits

What they tried first, and where it stopped.

The natural first step is a chatbot. But a chatbot only handles the front door of support. To reduce average handle time, 4 things had to happen on every call.

01

Resolve routine requests independently

So skilled agents stop absorbing questions that don’t need them.

02

Preserve context on escalation

Keep the full conversation, device and account details intact when a case genuinely needs a human.

03

Deliver knowledge instantly, mid-call

Put the answer in front of the agent while the call is live, not behind a search.

04

Fit the existing stack

Work across the CRM, telephony and device systems already in place, without replacing any of them.

04 · What Lyzr built

Two layers. One assistant for the customer, one for the agent.

A conversational layer resolves what it can at the front door. A real-time assistance layer works alongside the agent through everything that isn’t resolved there.

Layer 1 · Conversational Assistant
Intent & Issue Recognition
Reads what the customer is asking and what it’s about.
Direct Resolution
Handles basic troubleshooting, product questions, standard workflows.
Context-Intact Escalation
Hands off with conversation, device and account details attached.
Layer 2 · Real-Time Agent Assistance
Live Transcription
Transcribes and analyzes the call as it happens.
Grounded Retrieval
Surfaces docs, product data, device config and steps in one panel.
Review & Feedback Loop
Every suggestion can be approved, corrected or rejected, and feeds the knowledge base.
05 · Architecture

One interface across 6 support systems.

No migration. No replatforming. The assistant runs against the systems already in place.

Real-time voice AI assist architecture - a live customer call on Five9 and the Wingman softphone is transcribed turn by turn, an AI assist panel understands intent, retrieves knowledge and drafts a grounded response by querying the knowledge base, VHQ Directions, Commander, customer records and device data into one panel, and the rep reviews and answers with a 16.17% lower handle time.
06 · Controls

What happens when the assistant doesn’t have the answer.

When the system can’t resolve an issue, it hands it to an agent with all the context they need.

Grounding
Every answer is drawn from the client’s own knowledge base, not a generic source.
Escalation
Unresolved issues hand off with full context. Nothing is dropped, nothing repeated by the customer.
Review
Every AI-suggested resolution can be approved, corrected or rejected by the client’s own team.
Feedback loop
Corrections feed directly back into the knowledge base, so the system keeps improving rather than plateauing.
Oversight
The quality curve stays in the client’s hands, not automated away from them.
07 · Re-imagined workflow

The agent used to search. Now the agent just answers.

Before: an agent moves between 5 or 6 systems mid-call, hunting for account history, device data and troubleshooting steps, while the customer waits on hold. After: the assistant retrieves everything into a single panel, and the agent focuses on diagnosis and resolution.

After LyzrFour steps. Retrieval runs itself.
16.17% lower handle time. The same systems, reached without leaving the conversation.
CUSTOMERChat · Voice1Call transcribedlive2Intent & devicedetected3Answer inone panel4Agent resolves16.17%LOWERQUERIED AUTOMATICALLY, INTO ONE PANELCustomer recordsDevice dataSite configDocumentationKnowledge baseThe same systems, reached without leaving the conversation.
Before LyzrSix steps. Every one by hand.
10 minutes per call. Five or six systems, opened one at a time.
CUSTOMERChat · Voice1Understand issue2Identify device3Search systems4Retrieve procedure5Validate details6Return to call10MIN PER CALLOPENED BY HAND, ONE AT A TIMECustomer recordsDevice dataSite configDocumentationKnowledge baseSix steps, repeated on nearly every call, before troubleshooting could start.
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08 · Results

What changed, by the numbers.

Per interaction, before and after.

MeasureBefore LyzrAfter Lyzr
Finding informationManual search across 6 or more systemsAI retrieval surfaced in a single panel
Call documentationManual recall and note-takingReal-time transcription
Agent focusRoutine and complex queries alikePrimarily complex issues
Support workflowFragmented across platformsUnified in one interface
$166,500Estimated annualized net savings
10 minRecovered per agent, per working day
832.5 minRecovered per agent, per year
09 · What’s next

The same model, cleared to scale.

The trial results were strong enough to change the deployment plan. Leadership moved from a trial cohort to an organization-wide rollout, with more gains expected as the knowledge base matures and retrieval coverage extends further across the product estate.

Trial cohort → organization-wide rollout, cleared by leadership

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