Send Faxes Online

Affordable Faxing for Everyone with Online Fax

If you have thought in the past that you couldn’t afford a faxing service in your home or small office, then think again as there is now a very cheap and easy way to send and receive faxes from any web enabled computer – online faxing. Online faxing is very much like sending and receiving emails, but is much more versatile as it allows you to transmit documents not just to other people with online accounts, but also to offline numbers on conventional fax machines. This is ideal if you need to send a document to someone who does not have Internet access, as your provider will automatically convert the file you want to send into a format that can be transmitted over the Standard Telephone Network to be received by a conventional fax machine.

Reliable Faxes

Online faxing is very reliable and you will be able to send and receive faxes to any other number (both online accounts and conventional fax machines) in the world. As a back up facility many providers also let you send a copy of your fax to the recipients email address as well as their fax number, which is ideal for ensuring that the document you want to send gets through to them on time. Failed fax transmissions are a common problem, but online faxing services provide automatic resend features, which will attempt to send the fax again for you between two and five times, so that you don’t have keep trying to send the fax again yourself, which will save you a lot of time and hassle. Some online fax providers are more reliable than others.

Secure Faxes

Online faxing companies use the latest data transfer security protocols (SSL encryption) to protect message sent via online fax, so you can be confident that both your sent and received documents will remain private and secure. You will also receive an automatic confirmation receipt that will let you know that your fax has got through to the right recipient. Online faxing companies will need to take your bank or credit card details in order to process your monthly payments, so you do need to check that their websites as well as their data streaming processes are protected by the latest SSL encryption technology, to ensure your sensitive details are kept private and secure.

Archive Faxes

With conventional faxing documents were automatically printed out on paper so that the recipient could read them, and this resulted not only in a lot of wastage, but also in a lot of paper that needed filing away if you needed to keep the fax. Online faxing saves on a lot of storage space because faxes can be saved directly to your computer harddrive or memory device, and this makes it easy to archive and organize your faxes. Most online providers also offer free online storage for around 30 days, which means you can keep temporary files for a few weeks and then delete them when you don’t need them anymore.