Cheap Fax Service Review – SaveOnFaxes.com

To save money on phone service I switched over to Voice Over IP a long time ago. I have done a few posts regarding this and in many cases I keep getting questions asking if you can fax over VoIP. In the quest to save money and switch from the standard phone companies to VoIP we forget that fax isn’t supported on any Voice Over IP service out there.

I am in this boat as well. I’ve tried faxing over Vonage, faxing over Broadvoice and also tried faxing over T-Mobile’s Hotspot at Home and have in some cases been able to get a fax or two to complete, but over all it is not consistent. I decided to try one of those online fax services where you send faxes via an email to an email address which in turn faxes it to the number you want it sent to. All the fax services I tried all seem to work well, but they are expensive. Send2Fax.com is $9 per month and eFax.com will run you around $14 per month. Both offer around 120 free faxes for the month. This is great if you have a high volume of faxes. But what if you only want around half that? Enter SaveOnFaxes.com!

SaveOnFaxes.com is setup more for the casual user. Their basic plan only costs $3.75 (billed anually at $44.95) and it gives you 50 free faxes a month. This comes out to about .$07 per fax for the year. Best part is that you get your own local or toll free fax number that you can give out to others. Other fax services charge you extra for a toll free number! All faxing is done through email (See demo below). You just send an email to faxnumber@my.saveonfaxes.com from the email account that you used to sing up and that email will turn into a fax that will be sent to that faxnumber. You can also include attachments in PDF or Microsoft Office format that will also be included in the fax. This is great if you have a scanner. All you need to do is scan the document and then send it as an attachment in an email and your fax is complete.

You receive any faxes right into your email as a PDF document. Since this is all done via email you can literally send and receive faxes from a cell phone if your phone has email and attachment capability. There is also an online portal where you can see the status / history of your inbound and outbound faxes as well as update your account information.

I have been testing their service for a few months and it suits my needs and budget. They definetly seem to be the cheapest Internet fax service out there. I can handle paying $45 a year for faxing since I can’t do it over my VoIP. There are some other sites that let you pay as you fax, but they don’t give you your own number. This is important to me since you never know when someone will need your fax number. Now you can really kill your landline since your faxing options are now covered!

Check out SaveOnFaxes.com for more details and happy faxing!

UPDATE:

I decided to put together a quick example of how this all works so you can see how easy it is. (Click on any images to see a larger easier to read version)

The process starts out by simply creating an email from the email account that you used when you signed up for SaveonFaxes.com:

Notice the makeup of the TO: field. The first item is the name, this will appear in the “To:” field on the fax cover sheet, the next item is the Company, this will appear in the “Company:” field on the cover sheet. (Those first two items are optional, but if you are doing a cover sheet it makes things look complete). Then the last item, which is most important is thefax number you are sending the fax to. Then the “@my.saveonfaxes.com” email domain name is used everytime you send a fax.

In the email subject add whatever you want the fax cover sheet Subject to have on it. And any text you put in the body of the email will appear in the body of the cover sheet. Notice that I also attached a word docment. Here is what the one page word document looks like before I sent it off:

Nothing too exciting, but if you need to fax documents, adding it as an attachment to the email makes it very easy. You can attach multiple documents to the email and they will all appear on seperate pages in the fax that is sent. The attachment types that SaveonFaxes.com supports are the following:

Ok, everything is ready on your email, so now you need to send it. Once you send the email you can log into the SaveonFaxes.com online portal to monitor the status if you wish.

The portal allows you to see what is going on as well as allows you to resend the same fax with a click of a button, so you don’t have to contstruct the email again.

Now remember I sent an email with an attachment, so my fax that was sent will be multiple pages. One for the cover sheet and then as many pages as the attachments need. Since the word doc I created was only one page this fax will have a total of two pages.

Here are the screen shots of what the received fax looks like:

Notice all of the fields that I put on the email have nicely transfered into the correct positions on the cover sheet. And that the contents of the word document on a sepeate page of the fax.

SaveonFaxes.com also provides other commands that you can put in the subject line of the email to do things like suppress the cover sheet, add billing codes, etc.

As you can see SaveonFaxes.com is relatively easy to use and is cost effective enough to allow you to have it as an option to your VoIP line. I have been using this service for a few months now and am extremely happy with the results.

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