Internet faxing with ezFAX
Despite the advances in technology, one thing that is ubiquitous to every office and company is that faithful fax machine which comes in all sizes - desktop printer size to mammoth multi functional copier. This is fax is indispensable. It is a tool to improve work efficiency and close business deals between two distant parties. Now, with internet technology, cheap internet faxing is getting popular too and thus totally eliminating the need to have a bulky physical fax machine. Welcome to the world of e-fax that compliments your e-mail perfectly. This means you can access your faxing needs with a website and this allows you to fax important business documents from anywhere in the world without the need to have a fax machine. One website that does this service for you is ezFAX.
The company ezFAX is based in Singapore and the rates are arguably the cheapest around! A monthly-based subscription is only around USD11. Opting for a yearly based subscription is even cheaper, so the plan caters for people who faxes regularly or seldom.
What ezFAX does is that it converts documents or files - be it in doc, pdf, xls, png, gif, jpg and etc - your clients want to send to you into PDF documents at its server and forwards it to your registered ezFAX number, which is linked to a specific email address you have assigned. This means the fax will turn out to be an email attachment in PDF format in this email inbox. A subscriber can also input many email addresses into the system thus allowing multi recipients.
One thing to note though is that, the basic plan covers those who want to receive faxes. If you want to send fax, you can additionally purchase “sending credits” via its fax interface which is linked to the trusted WorldPay payment processor. Minimum sending credits is around USD7. Sending rates varies internationally depending on destination countries.
Support is great here and my account issues get resolved fast most of the time within 8 hours via its online ticketing system.
On the whole, this is a simple no frills internet faxing service offered by some good honest guys. As technology improves, I hope the company will push out mobile faxing via smart phones or mobile notebooks that utilize wireless networks. I would expect more technical upgrades done by the company to accommodate these advances.