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.

Wirelessly posted (Blackberry8700c: BlackBerry9630/5.0.0.591 Profile/MIDP-2.1 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/105)

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.

I use Metrofax. When I was switching offices and decided to go with an efax, I studied all the options (including the actual eFax brand) and found Metrofax makes the most sense. They give you a pool of 1000 pages a month, in or out (a lot of efax companies screw you on outbounds) for $12.95. They also give the second month automatically free. It has worked incredibly well for nearly a year now, and their customer service on the 3 calls I have had to make (set up, the only slow down I've seen and getting info about international faxing) was exemplary. Only had one day where my faxes were going out slowly (about an hour delay), and it was fixed within 6 hours or so.

I have used Maxemail with no problems. This one is only available with a Chicago number, but would appear to be the cheapest & most reliable out there. $24 per year and easy to use worldwide to send, additional fees per page for international. https://www.maxemail.com/max/lite.html Even if you are outside of the US, if you think about it, does it really matter if you have a US number? How many times a year are you really going to receive a fax?

Good luck.

I'm coming up on my eFax renewal and I'd like to move to something else that's not >$100/yr.

I receive 3-5 pages a month and also need to send 5-10 pages/month (e.g., faxing boarding passes when at a hotel, etc.).

Ideas?

I wish they would kill fax as a technology, and replace it with a digitial solution that uses secure PDFs / JPGs. I send/receive faxes about 3-4 times per year, and it's a pain sometimes to figure out how to do it, especially as we get rid of landlines and modems in laptops.

Here's a good site to compare internet fax solutions: http://www.faxcompare.com/

These fax services must be a gold mine....

My eFax was to autobill the $139 annual fee on 6/25.

I went to the eFax site and engaged the online chat and told the CSR I wanted to cancel. In a few moments he came back and said "his manager had authorized" a "special" $50 annual fee instead!

Heh, I got the same "special offer" when I called to cancel.

Anybody else have experience with RingCentral? I'm leaning toward them because (a) they're half the price of eFax and (b) eFax's number porting page says they can't port our number and they don't offer any numbers in our area code, whereas RingCentral offers local numbers in our area and may be able to port our existing number. But I'd love to hear more about folks' experience with RingCentral before getting into a number porting morass.

Here are some other ideas for cheap/free faxing.

http://websearch.about.com/od/useful...fax-online.htm

Depdning on what kind of faxes you send, www.faxzero.com might do the trick for sending.

Then you can just use a free eFax account for incoming.

Looks like that would work very nicely for most boarding pass faxing-to-self-at-the-hotel situations. Thanks.

I've used faxzero to fax airlines since it's easier than moving my all-in-one over by my vonage.

Stay away from free online faxing service because you hardly get customer support. Moreover, it lacks features and it is ad-driven. If you want to utilize your business with faxing service then most office phone system in the market has this added as a feature.

Onesuite fax service is worth checking out.

Their incoming service is only $1/month without any limits on the amount you can receive and you can choose local number within your area.

The sending and receiving service is @ $2.95/month still with unlimited incoming fax and sending out is pay as you go @ 2.5c per page to US numbers and 1.9c to Candian numbers. Different rates for different countries but mostly 3c or below.

Any recent input on this e fax subject? I'm looking to do very little faxing. Just reading thru this threads recommendations now.

I've been using MYFax since April or May for my business. My cost has been $10 a month and the service has been very dependable/

Thanks.

unityfax.com $5.99 for what I need

Based on an older FT thread, I've been using Faxaway for a few years now. For $1 / month, I get my own phone number and unlimited inbound fax. People can send to my fax number and I get a PDF with no advertisements. Hard to beat that. They have an email to fax gateway for outbound, as I recall you send your attachment to a special email address.

I'll check them out, thanks!

e-fax no longer offers freebie. here is what you see after you fill in name etc...

"Thank you for visiting eFax.
The page you are looking for has moved or no longer exists, or you might have entered an incorrect Website address (URL).

You might find what you're looking for in one of these areas:
The eFax Sitemap
The eFax Help section
The eFax home page

Or you can go back to the previous page. "

I have read through the whole thread too and Faxaway looks like what I need. I have an incoming email fax through my long distance phone card for $29/year with an 877#. Works fine and everyone has the # now.

Problem has been no outgoing fax, which I want to do by email from my computer very rarely - maybe a dozen times a year. If I am reading the faxaway site, it is $1.00/month, but given the rest of this thread I feel like I must be missing something! Is that right??

I use faxaway. I feel it's so clunky/outdated for outgoing faxes that I couldn't recommend it to others. But maybe they have newer stuff that I don't know about, or it's because I forget how to use it everytime. Yes it's CHEAP.

Onesuite fax is a good deal. No monthly plans/minutes, only pay as you go. Pretty reliable too. If you only need to receive fax then you only pay $1/month.

Only $1 monthly with fax number? Do you pay extra if you go over the limit with Onesuite fax?

efax alternative?
 

This thread is 5 years old, so i apologize but couldnt find anything newer.

Anyone have an efax alternative that is priced better than $150/yr?

I receive and send less than 5 faxes a month. I just can't justify the $150 for this, but its hard to give up the fax machine when you have clients who insist on faxing back contracts.

Advice?