Fax to email services

How many faxes do you send a day? The answer probably depends on your circumstances or industry. I’m sure you sent more 5 years ago than you do today.

Only a few years ago almost everything important was done via fax. Signed contracts, signed documents, initials, forms, lots of paperwork. Most companies accept emails for account cancellations, renewals, and to conduct official business.

Every now and then you need to get a fax. Every once in a while, you need to send a fax. So you go to your 3 in 1 printer, turn it around, find a phone line, plug in a phone cord and fire off that fax to whoever needs it. When you need to send a fax you usually need to send one now, it can’t wait until later.

Receiving a fax isn’t so easy these days. With phone company voice mail, answering machines, internet, and maybe a printer that isn’t close to a phone line, you can easily find yourself having issues receiving a fax. Answer in 1 ring or two? Distinctive ring or not? Do i have ink? Is there paper loaded?

For a business with a published fax number, the worse is the vacation spam faxes. Wasting your paper and wasting your ink to advertise to you. What nerve. You cant stop it. It is worse that email spam. Email spam doesn’t coast you anything. A quick press of delete. Fax spam is worse. You feel the sting every time you throw away a stack of crap that just printed out.

For those of us with an exchange server you can set your system up to email received faxes to you and not print them out. It can even go to multiple recipients. This saves time and money by allowing you to archive and organize your received faxes. Easily find a fax you received a year ago in your outlook folder. You can even send fixes directly from your workstation. No more trips to the fax machine, more time to work!

For those without their own exchange server, there are other options. There are companies who provide a fax to email service. They will receive the fax for you and email it to you. This accomplishes the same thing as having your own exchange server, getting your faxes delivered via email.

The costs for this fax to email service is usually between $8-15 a month. This is very affordable for small businesses or casual faxing residential users.

Here is a website where you can compare the costs of some of the more popular fax to email services. http://www.faxcompare.com/

Take a look and compare to find the best fit for you or your business.