Verio Inc., a US-based subsidiary of NTT Communications Group and a provider of hosting and Internet services for small to mid-sized companies and partners, announced the availability of its Verio Reseller Business Tools (RBT), a suite of tools designed to assist viaVerio resellers with the management of their businesses. According to the company, the new service will help to ease the burden of performing many billing and accounting, reporting and other tasks for value-added resellers, enabling them to focus on business growth and customer needs rather than administrative tasks.

Today’s resellers find it increasingly difficult to manage growing customer lists and expanding functionality on their own Web sites, as well as on the sites of their Web hosting customers. By automating tasks, such as monthly billing and accounting, the company estimates that Verio’s Reseller Business Tools can reduce the time required for resellers to bill customers to as little as one to two hours per month.

The functionality of RBT ensures that users can better manage customer information by creating and managing customer groups for customized mailings and email promotions, and enable customers to update their own contact and billing information, and track trouble tickets. Additionally, RBT integrates with Intuit QuickBooks Pro for automatic synchronization with order, payment, refund, customer and product information, allowing resellers to streamline accounting processes and improve financial planning.

“As many hosting resellers’ businesses begin to grow, they often encounter roadblocks along the way and find themselves struggling under the weight of managing customer information, billing and payment processes and other tasks which must be performed each and every month. The RBT offering is intended to relieve this burden and free up resellers time to focus on the business itself – not administrative tasks,” said Jim Ciampaglio, director of reseller sales for Verio. “Verio’s business is focused on the health of its resellers, and we want to enable the continued growth and effectiveness of our reseller partners. Products and services such as Reseller Business Tools help these partners deliver a more efficient, higher quality service to their own customers and business.”

RBT is available to all viaVerio resellers for $29.95 per month. Currently Verio is offering RBT at no charge to viaVerio resellers for the first two months of service.