E-fax solution recommendations
 

There are now quite a few e-fax options available. Can anyone provide me with their positive &/or negative experiences with any of the various companies?

What are you looking for

High volume, low volume, one off fax's, sending and receiving, or just sending or just receiving?

I use both efax and faxaway for very low volume fax receiving, maybe one or two a month at most and have not had any problems other then e-fax likes to do number changes on the free accounts from time to time.

I’ve been using eFax.com for several years now, and am happy with the service. I ported one of the toll-free numbers I own to my eFax number which works flawlessly.

My new office lease will provide free, outgoing US domestic FAX. I'm looking for incoming only, local or toll free number, volume of 200 incoming a month on average. I will be using a VOIP phone system that will not support my analog FAX machine for incoming faxes. I am not expecting a no cost solution, just low cost.

efax will do 200 pages a month for $20 a month, with a dime a page over, and they have local numbers available I believe.

Faxaway will hold 20 messages at once (which won't really apply if you have the fax's relayed out to your e-mail, then it's pretty much unlimited). That's only $1 a month (one dollar) with unlimited messages, but it requires a 206 (Seattle) area code.

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I've used Fax2 quite a bit. Their UI is terrible but the service is fine and the prices are rather cheap.

Ringcentral is fantastic for the price. Try them out for 30 days, 300 pages of fax for 8 bucks. I like them more than efax, had both for a while.

link for their efax promotion

Cordelli, are the "free accounts" something you were grandfathered into? Currently efax only offers a 30-day free trial, same as most everyone who shows up in the results of a Google search on "free fax service".

I ask, because I'm looking for a free service - my occasional use wouldn't justify even $10/mo.

I've had the efax for years and years, so I would guess it was a grandfathered thing.

I think they still offer the free service, just not broadcast out to the public. The signup sheet is here

http://home.efax.com/s/r/efaxprint

and the terms are dated December, so they updated it recently.

You have to be under 20 pages a month and some other conditions in their terms.

I'm probably dense but I'm not seeing any special promotion for current eFax customers at that link?

Thanks for the link. This does work, and is FREE for <20 pages/month.

Much appreciated.

I understand that this wouldn't get you inbound faxing capability (but the free eFax could do that), but is there any Windows software that allows you simply to send a fax from your computer (like you could in the old days of dial-up?) without having to route through a network service? If so, that would pay for itself quickly if you needed outbound faxing.

Both Windows XP and Vista have the ability to send faxes built in. If you have a dial up modem installed, you just set up the PC to do faxes and print to the fax driver.

In Vista for example (pretty much the same for xp)

Setting up the PC
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...-receive-faxes

Sending the fax
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...sta/Send-a-fax

Without a modem, in most cases, you would have to use a service which would probably charge or put ads on the cover sheet.

CallCentric has a fax-to-email service included on all their phone numbers. $8.95/mo for office unlimited, or $2/mo plus 1.5 cents per minute if that works out to be cheaper.

k7.net is free. You will lose the number, however, if it is inactive for 30 days.