The easiest way to fax: send an internet fax

When you’re looking for a quick and easy way to perform fax functions, you can choose to send an internet fax. It’s simple, fast and more reliable than traditional faxing.

How so? It makes use of the internet and VoIP service providers that allow internet telephony to be used by small and expanding businesses. As long as you have a good computer and a reliable internet connection, you can create your own phone system that fits the needs of your company.

You can send an internet fax in two ways:

1. Free internet faxing - You might be surprised, but free faxing is quite easy to perform. You don’t need a computer programmer, a sophisticated rig or a complex process to do so, since service providers really offer to let you send an internet fax for free. You need your document to be in digital file format and ready to be uploaded onto the service provider’s website. Finding a free fax service on the internet is quite easy. All you have to do is run a quick search and a host of free fax web pages are there for you to use.
   
    Before you can send your free fax, though, you need to take note of the following restrictions these web pages impose:
   
   • You can only send one or two faxes per day.
   • You aren’t given a fax number so receiving faxes is not possible through these web pages.
   • You can only send files in TIFF and PDF format. Uploading documents of different file formats may result in an unsuccessful fax or denial of the upload altogether.
   • You can only upload a limited number of attachments in small file increments.
   • You can’t send faxes to other countries.
   • You won’t get any notification that your fax was received properly by the recipient.
2. Premium fax service
   When you pay for your faxing, you immediately get a fax number that functions just like a dedicated fax line. People can ring this number and hear a fax tone over the line, signaling that you are ready to receive their fax. They can send their fax the traditional way, but your way of receiving is much different. The faxed document is sent to your email or an inbox provided to you by the VoIP firm.
   
   Advantages of paying for your faxing could be:
   
   • You’re given a large volume of faxes that can be sent and received each month.
   • You can send an internet fax in a wider selection of file formats such as DOC, DOCX, XLS, TXT, HTML, and JPEG as your attachments. You aren’t limited to TIFF and PDF anymore.
   • You can send faxes to other countries as long as you have the complete fax number of your recipient, country and area code included.
   • You can send more and larger files.
   • You can view, edit and choose which faxes to print from your email. This saves you from maintaining ink and paper for a fax machine.
   If you’re interested in sending an internet fax, the best way to begin is to use a free fax service.