Best online fax service




Best online fax service

Are you looking for the Best online fax service, or in fact do you really need one? Here Peter Hanley looks at Faxing for business.

Faxing is Country dependent

While in general fax services are declining some counties are more advanced than others. This is also the case with industries.
Legal, Financial, Health and Real Estate are generally maintaining a relationship with the security of faxing.
With Faxing you have end to end encryption and send reports to verify the transaction.
Emails are far less secure and can be hacked more easily although
the advent of online signing has become a favorite of some.

What about cloud Faxing?

Here you have a combination of fax and email services so you get the best / worse of both services. Generally encryption rules apply
and send and read reports are available.

A fax may be considered a legal document to transact a process but require the original when it is being stamped.

My belief is that cloud faxing will be an everyday product that will generally give over to email over time>

I was in a local industrial block recently because a client of mine had claimed their Fax service was not working. My carrier was unable to send a fax ( an interesting fact in itself) so I said not to worry I will duck down the road to a friends business and fax from there.
Two friends later and still cant find a fax. I ended up at the local Post Office and paid my $0.20 to send a fax, which did not work.
This is in Australia in a prime area where the use of faxing has declined.

Fax to email and email to fax

 

A fax to email service starts out from a traditional hard copy Fax machine that is addressed to a normal fax number.
The fax number belongs to a Carrier who then converts the fax message into an email delivery and completes the transaction.

The document can arrive with a header page and attached document pages in Adobe, PDF or Tiff formats.
Send and receive reports are available and printing of documents is standard practice.

The receiver does not have a fax machine, they only have a Virtual fax number that points at one or more email addresses. This is the growing trend because you save in so many ways. No telephone line needed, no equipment, repairs, consumables. More importantly no wandering the office looking for a document.

Sending Faxes from email

With a subscribed for carrier service you can send a virtual fax to either a fixed machine or to a cloud based service. You may never know which is which when wanting to send a fax.
The normal method using email is to send an email to a fax address.
you will type in the fax number , the carrier address, insert a subject and add your pages SEND.
Like  0893256146@fax.carrier.com
Get your report and the job is done

Reasons to have a fax service

Sometimes people with whom you deal insist on using faxes. It might be local government, health or legal  services so you have no choice but to pander to them.

I often recommend a fax number to web based or small businesses.
This achieves an image of a professional business . Gee they have a fax service they must be a big business.

Some countries do not have the IT abilities of the first world. If you are dealing with them a fax service may still be needed.

Often the fax machine serves as the office Printer so why change the way of doing business is a thought process of many.

I personally gave up on my Fax machine some 8 years ago. This is my version of the future.

 

Fax Broadcasting

A traditional marketing method that was relatively cheap and had a reasonable ROI. Although this is still plugged by some companies and I actually receive a marketing fax at times I would not waste my money. It lasted longer than it should have because Fax numbers were exempt from anti spamming rules. You could blast away at any time.

At Verdi.net.au we have a range of services to suit any need from just $8.00 a month, but only in Australia.
Internationally E.fax is probably the most popular company. I have not used them so I can’t compare. Pricing is good but reliability suspect.

I also wrote on Faxing here

Best online fax service

Peter Hanley

New business on line

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