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CRDB has a branch near the market and provides all the usual money exchange services. It also has an ATM, in case you get desperate. Useful to note is that they are open until 1pm on Saturdays. In Iringa, there are also branches of NMB across the street from Jacaranda and NBC.
NMB has an ATM at its branch. It also has an ATM in the town center. However, CRDB and NBC take only VISA cards. A Barclays has opened but has a bit of an unreliable cash machine at the moment and they only change foreign currency if you are an account holder.
Nowhere takes travellers cheques.
Neema Crafts is taking credit cards in their shop and if you ask you can pay for the fabulous restaurant as well by card.They sell postcards and stamps and have a postbox by the front door. You can find cards a bit different from the standard Tz wide fare here as well.
Immigration has an office in CRDB - bank building.
There is a very good language school in Iringa mainly based at Riverside campsite. The SIL Bible translators use it which is a pretty good recommendation for it's quality.
If you are coming to Iringa for a while there is a very good international school Iringa International School which mainly has expat teachers and runs the IB primary years programme, IGCSE and A-level. It is a very well run pleasant school with great kids and has some of the best exam results in Tanzania. It also has excellent boarding facilities for families based further out of town.
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There are many internet cafés in Iringa. The best of these is at Neema Crafts Centre, probably the fastest in town they use the new high speed TTCL connection, turning off the main road at the clock tower roundabout past the post office. They have fast internet and also unlike the other cafes are virus free as they run on open source software don't worry, you can use and access all your normal documents etc there. They also have WiFi in their restaurant which is fast and it is a great place to sit and relax with your laptop. The only problem is they only have 10 computers at the moment but are hooking another up for use as a skype computer in a private booth, but if you have to wait, the chocolate cake and coffee is great!Another well known internet place is IringaNet,it is at the top end of town. It will cost you 1,000/= per hour, though you can bulk buy and get a small discount. Another option is to take your own wireless enabled laptop and, for the same price, use their wireless hotspot. The connections used to be considered quite quick for Tanzania, but they now lag behind the internet cafes using the new high speed fibre optic cables from TTCL, the main phone company.The internet cafe by the post office is also half decent but can be a bit slow and is riddled with viruses so don't plug in your memory stick or camera.there are several other smaller places around which are much of a muchness. Prices are the same everywhere, 500 for half an hour and 1000 for an hour with Wifi rates a bit higher.