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Title: Online faxing
Post by: Reschke on February 25, 2011, 02:50:35 PM
Anyone ever used something like this?  http://www.myfax.com

Just looking for ways to cut down on my business costs and fax line with all the crap that the phone company tries to do is bleeding me like a death of a thousand cuts.
Title: Re: Online faxing
Post by: Dimebag on February 25, 2011, 03:39:37 PM
faxing is out, email is in  :aok

I did have efax a few years back, it worked great for me
Title: Re: Online faxing
Post by: Reschke on February 25, 2011, 04:31:00 PM
Yeah I know its out but I have some customers that are still in the dark ages and don't own a computer. Heck they don't even have cell phones nor do they want them and most of these guys have more money than they know what to do with it. If I want my share then I have to do business their way...hence the fax machine...and I hate that overgrown box....
Title: Re: Online faxing
Post by: bustr on February 26, 2011, 06:22:47 AM
Their fax number gets used as the e-mail/fax address. They get a fax from you and you get an e-mail from them after they have faxed to whatever number you are issued by the fax service. When I was an e-mail adminsitrator I built one of these systems for my company to augment e-mail and reduce the cost of owning fax machines.

We had a T1 trunk for inbound into a brooktrout board that muxed T1 signal. The inbound fax was turned into a tif file attachment to a simple mail file and routed via gateway to the e-mail server and your mailbox. The reverse was you used a phone number as the address and the e-mail system routed that to the fax server to process as an outbound fax.

You no longer have to own a box in your house. Just have access to the internet. The only problem is now you have a layer of human ineptatude(tech support) between you and any problem that has to be solved. One of the biggest ones is if your customer has an older fax machine that does not like the hand shake protocol from the fax services digital system. The service is cheaper technicaly but, keep an old fax machine handy incase one of your customers home machine doesn't like the fax services digital wonder board.

People with lots of money very often use fax because it is secure and accepted by banks, the legal system and the IRS as a secure communications standard. Whats the new world record for hacking your cell phone at a Starbucks now...5...15...25 seconds?
Title: Re: Online faxing
Post by: mthrockmor on February 26, 2011, 07:21:13 AM
We use this service and it is great. You need a computer but your clients do not. When you get a fax it shows up as a pdf attached to an email. You can save it or print it as needed. For your customers they know no difference. To send a fax you need to first scan the document into a pdf then you fax. The actual fax is ubber easy. You put in the email the fax number you are sending to@ myfax.com, so 8885551212@myfax.com, attach the document and click send. Works like a charm with the added advantage of electronically filing all of your faxes. I've used it at my firm for 2-years now. Highly recommend it.

Boo
Title: Re: Online faxing
Post by: Shuffler on February 26, 2011, 03:36:42 PM
Yeah I know its out but I have some customers that are still in the dark ages and don't own a computer. Heck they don't even have cell phones nor do they want them and most of these guys have more money than they know what to do with it. If I want my share then I have to do business their way...hence the fax machine...and I hate that overgrown box....

Then you should be charging enough to cover overhead. :D
Title: Re: Online faxing
Post by: gyrene81 on February 26, 2011, 03:42:35 PM
Then you should be charging enough to cover overhead. :D
ya...that's what the oil companies do


sorry shuffler...couldn't resist...i blame the vodka
Title: Re: Online faxing
Post by: MarineUS on February 26, 2011, 09:15:17 PM
posted in the wrong thread - delete this
Title: Re: Online faxing
Post by: CAP1 on February 26, 2011, 10:46:38 PM
Anyone ever used something like this?  http://www.myfax.com

Just looking for ways to cut down on my business costs and fax line with all the crap that the phone company tries to do is bleeding me like a death of a thousand cuts.

if you've already got a combo printer.....like the hp that does print/copy/fax.....you don't need a special fax line......