Occasionally (maybe once a month) I need to either send or recieve faxes and the bank charges $2 a page. So I am curious about somewhere to be able to both send and recieve, without it costing much, since I rarely would use it.
Any comments or more suggestions?
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Efax doesn't charge you anything to receive. However, if you send, it will cost you a nickel for every 30 seconds of transmission time on your longdistance phone bill.
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Dana...I haven't really done any more than follow the links that were mentioned in Glenn's post. The only thing that I worry about using these "free" services is that you usually have to pay the price of mega junk mail as a result. Since switching servers here I have reduced my e-mail to just regular mail from people I want to hear from. Avoiding things like the "free services" will hopefully keep it that way.
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There are numerous free fax softwares out there. I know there were some at TUCOWS. If you already have a modem and phone line into your computer, why not use them? What it cost you is the same as any fax transmission, the cost of the phone call. It's easy to send something directly from your sign program by clicking PRINT, and having the fax software set up as one of the printers on your list. Often it will also be a cleaner image than if you print it and send it with a conventional fax. Does the set up you folks are speaking of enable you to send long distance faxes at the cost of a local call? What's the advantage?
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There's a program that's called Ring Central that is a great fax program. Cool too. Looks like a phone fax on your desktop. Not very expensive, and works great.
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For years we used WinFax Pro. I kept finding conflicts between certain computers and faxes that were completely eliminated by using a regular fax machine. I'm sure some of these programs are flawless by now.
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The advantage for me is that I have only one phone line for right now and it would be too impractical and expensive to get a second line into the house.
Actually, I have two e-fax numbers. One is just for one client. The buyer has been trying to give the work to someone else, but her boss won't let her. So then she started complaining that we weren't responding to her faxes (we never received them). Then she said we were taking too long to respond to the faxes. We almost lost the account because of her. I signed up an e-fax account and sent it to her and her boss. They are the only ones who have it. Now I have a record of every fax that comes in and the "fax line", so to speak, is never tied up. We never told her how we were set up with the e-fax, just that it was a new fax number. Well, she started her mess again. I sent a record to her boss and told him what we had done. Needless to say, he wasn't too pleased with her and she got busted. Turns out that the person she was wanting to give the work to was a cousin of hers. Gotta love technology. This was a $30k year account that I didn't want to lose.
Also, since I can now check my e-mail no matter where I am regardless of who's internet account, I can check and view my faxes as well.
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