e-Billing benefits are great

Paperless billing is being adopted at a faster pace than ever before because of the benefits it provides to all parties, says PR Web.

The biller achieves cost reductions while their customers enjoy the convenience of receiving bills electronically. Best of all, paperless billing has significant benefit to the environment.

Billtrust, an outsourced biller, has been recognised by Plant a Tree US with the Great Green Business Award for its success in converting customers to e-billing.

To make bill paying even easier, AT&T has expanded its relationship with CheckFree, now part of Fiserv, a leading provider of IT services to the financial and insurance industries, says IT News Online.

Customers now have the option to receive and pay their AT&T wireless phone bills through more than 3 000 financial institutions' Web sites.

AT&T's expanded relationship with CheckFree means customers can sign up through their banks' Web sites to receive e-bills, or online statements, from AT&T.

A national restaurant chain, a sports Web site, and a retailer have turned to Knotice, an Akron company that has grown from three entrepreneurs to 32 employees in four years by helping companies reach customers in a high-tech world, says Ohio.com.

CEO Brian Deagan said companies are already marketing through e-mail, Web and cellphones. But because each of those applications evolved separately, most companies are stuck with a ''fragmented infrastructure'' with different providers, costs and looks.

What Knotice does is blend all three marketing avenues, he said, ''and that allows them to drive the right messaging to the right consumer at the right time regardless of whether they are interactive via e-mail, mobile phone or on the Web".'