An "apples to apples" comparison of the top providers of online fax services.

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What is an online fax?

Faxing online has currently replaced traditional fax machines as the quickest, easiest and most convenient way to fax documents. An online fax service, like those listed in the chart above, gives you

1. A dedicated business fax number
2. Send, receive and manage your faxes from a simple online dashboard.

Think of online fax as an email service that can communicate with a traditional fax machine. When you receive a fax, it will be sent to your email address as an attachment. You can also log into your dashboard, view your digital fax there, and print or delete it at will. This saves on paper and ink needed to print your faxes.

Why use an online fax service?

Low Cost: Typically the monthly fee you pay an internet fax service is much less than the cost of a dedicated phone line and you have no long distance charges.

Efficient: Many services allow you to set up multiple "receive" emails, so your faxes are automatically delivered to whomever you choose.

Reliable: You will no longer have to deal with the limitation of your phone line or fax machines. This means no busy signals, no running out of paper, no paper jams, etc.

Eco-Friendly: Reducing consumption not only reduces costs, it's the responsible thing to do for the environment. Printing every junk fax or bad transmission creates trash and costs money.

Secure: Most email fax services support high level encryption technology. Furthermore, you can designate specific email addresses to receive faxes, which is significantly more secure than sending sensitive documents to a shared fax machine.

What to look for in an online fax service:

Market Standard: After reviewing plans with all the internet fax service providers on our list, we came up with what we consider to be "market standard." A standard online fax service offers the following features:

• 30-day free trial
• No startup fee.
• $9.95 per month
• 300 total pages (incoming and outgoing combined).
• $0.10 per minute for overage pages.
• No Hidden Fees
• 24/7 Customer Service
• Send/Receive capabilities.

We do not recommend selecting an online fax service based on brand name recognition. There are many reliable online fax services with good customer service that meet FaxCompare.com's "market standard" criteria. More well-known services may charge more for the same features that are available from lesser-known, less expensive email fax carriers. (Use the online fax comparison chart at the top of the page to compare current prices.)

Pages v. Minutes: Some providers quote rates in minutes and others in pages. Those that quote rates in minutes are assuming that it takes 1 minute or less to transmit 1 page. However, they all state that the actual time to transmit a page may vary.

Why use FaxCompare.com?

FaxCompare.com was created as a result of our own frustration in choosing an online faxing service. We have spent over 100 man hours, plus more in ongoing updates researching all the different online fax services and organizing the data so you can make a quick comparison of the different services, select a provider, and get back to business.

Over 100,000 people have used our website to compare online fax services, and we hope you'll find it useful too.

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