Become a Business Partner

With 20 years of indirect channel management under our belt, we have the experience and in-depth expertise to provide high quality, channel-focused technology and communications services which includes Hosted VoIP Solutions, Business Broadband, Private Networks, Business Mobile Phones, Security, Email and Hosted PCI Compliance solutions to name a few. We combine an extensive portfolio of high quality, market leading services with exceptional support, competitive pricing and accurate and flexible billing options to ensure that our business partners are successful within their own markets and fields of expertise.

Columbus offers a variety of ways to work with us and we’ve spent a significant amount of time and resource fine-tuning our back office processes to ensure doing business as a Columbus Reseller or Dealer is straightforward and hassle free. You might not want to be involved in the provisioning and billing side of the industry and becoming a Columbus Dealer is ideal for those partners that want to focus on selling and providing solutions. Columbus provides comprehensive pre-sales and technical support to help you win business and then we will manage the solution delivered to your customer including ongoing billing. In return you receive excellent commission on every sale.

Columbus has worked extensively with cost management consultants and business cost reduction experts for well over a decade. Columbus places great emphasis on providing competitively priced solutions that do not impact on quality, service levels and performance. We also provide our cost management community with opportunities to develop effective business continuity plans for their clients alongside those all important cost savings. This means their clients are getting an enhanced service which considers all aspects of the the client’s needs. Columbus also provides a comprehensive, online billing portal with access to advanced reporting options to ensure any auditing requirements can be completed with ease.

Columbus is actively helping our telephony partners convert customers from legacy phone systems and ISDN30 lines to the latest, next generation network services including Hosted Telephony, Inbound and SIP Trunk Solutions. This includes support to develop resilient network designs which improve customers’ business continuity plans easily and cost-effectively. Our telephony partners predominantly serve the UK SME market and the most popular service provided to our telephony partner community is our Hosted Phone System called Horizon, the UK’s most popular Business VoIP service for under 250 seats (Illume Consulting, 2015).

The key services that we provide to our PBX partner community are traditional telephony services such as ISDN business lines and CPS business calls alongside our fast growing and increasingly popular IP-based, next generation network services such as hosted phone systems and SIP Trunks. This gives our PBX partners opportunities to develop additional recurring revenue streams and helps them secure customers for longer. For companies that have traditionally just sold PBX hardware, Columbus provides comprehensive training and support to help you develop new market opportunities quickly and very effectively.

Columbus provides predominantly IP-based, managed, telephony services to our SI partner community which they can easily integrate as a component of a client’s solution. This provides Systems Intergrators with the opportunity to add additional revenue streams and control a customer’s solution from end-to-end.

Columbus provides IT and Data Partners with the opportunity to increase the technology spend within their customer accounts without having to sell additional core services such as IT hardware, software licenses or subscriptions to cloud services. Columbus provides the opportunity to integrate voice, data and mobile services, helping to expand the IT and Data Partner’s portfolio, attract new customers and establish valuable, new recurring revenue streams.

Columbus supports a number of mobile-focused dealers and resellers across the UK as well as a wider partner community that wants to diversify from fixed lines and broadband services for example, and provide business mobile solutions as part of a widened, more attractive portfolio for their customers. Columbus partners with all the major UK business mobile networks to deliver commercially flexible and very competitively priced business mobile contracts, mobile devices and complementary services such as Mobile Device Management solutions, signal boosters, mifi units as well as M2M and 4G data only and Fixed IP SIMs.