Fax To Email
Ditch The “Fax Machine”. Join The Fax To Email Revolution!

Onefax offers you a convenient and easy-to-use platform to send and receive emails through its Email to Fax, Print to Fax and Fax on Control Panel options. The service is available 24/7, and you can send and receive faxes whenever you wish, from any location, using a computer and an internet connection. Faxes are sent and received in your own email account, in as early as 2 minutes after signing up with the service. Via the online control panel, users have access to updating account information, viewing fax activities, billing information, and usage reports.

There is no special hardware or software needed for sending and receiving faxes, only a Fax printer driver which can be downloaded from the Onefax web interface, from the Downloads section. After installing the Print-to-Fax driver, you can send faxes directly from the program in which you compose the file. Otherwise, the Online Control Panel works like your personal fax machine, and you only need to login to your Onefax account to use it for your faxing needs.

Onefax offers two pricing plans. Onefax Local offers users a free local fax number and is available for $8.95 a month. Onefax Toll-Free includes a toll-free fax number and costs $12.95 per month. Both plans feature a free setup fee, free unlimited incoming and outgoing faxing, as well as international outbound faxing at different rates. The two plans also include auto resend (failed fax transmissions are sent again 5 times) and delivery confirmation via email. The service supports 22 popular document types which you can send from your Onefax Online Control Panel, such as Adobe PDF, TIFF, or PostScript.

Onefax provides users with the ability to send or forward a single fax to as many as 5,000 recipients via the Fax Broadcast option. With the free online reporting, you can view your fax usage by logging onto the Onefax web interface, while usage reports can be downloaded into Excel spreadsheets for cost analysis. With Onefax you can also manage all your contacts from one central location, by uploading or downloading contact lists in CSV format. The two pricing plans further include the option to add personalized cover pages and to archive faxes. However, the service does not allow users to attach more than one file to their outgoing faxes. Customer support is available via email, but the web interface of the service also provides extensive Help Topics and FAQ sections, as well as a Feedback section.

FaxFreedom from Freedom Voice Systems provides easy-to-use free software with every account and the added ability to send, receive, archive, forward, print and label faxes. Your outbound faxes are encrypted for maximum security, while your online account is password protected. Fax Freedom will alert you every time you receive a fax, via email, call-back or a message sent to your pager. You can either choose a local, toll free or vanity number, or keep your current 800 number to send faxes anywhere in the world. The service provides non prepaid and prepaid packages with many good basic features at very competitive prices.

FaxFreedom provides users a convenient and highly functional control panel, called WebLINK Personal Internet Control Panel. Using this control panel, members can send, receive and forward faxes, print, archive and label documents, customize fax settings, access send or receive reports, and perform different account maintenance activities. As this is a web based service, there are never busy signals for incoming faxes. FaxFreedom also offers unlimited fax storage capacity and caller ID capture on every incoming fax. Despite the excellent features provided by this service, it cannot schedule fax send times and it doesn’t have the ability to include multiple documents in one fax.

The service differs from other services in the respect that it doesn’t offer a certain number of pages faxed. Instead, FaxFreedom offers minutes, just like GreenFax. The basic price for 100 free minutes per month is $9.95. However, if you want a vanity number, you have to pay a one time fee of $30. For an 800 number the charge is $15, while for a local fax number it is $10 per month. Subscriptions are on a month to month basis and there is no contractual agreement.

For non prepaid plans, the customer has to pay first and last month’s rental, and first month only for prepaid plans. For instance, FaxFreedom without prepaid minutes costs $19.90 ($9.95*2) the first month and then $9.95 plus call charges every month after that. FaxFreedom 250 costs $23.70 each month. In addition, there is a one time activation fee on all non prepaid and prepaid plans. The customer can start with a non prepaid plan and upgrade to a prepaid one at a later time. The service also offers one month credit on the customers’ monthly rental for every new customer referred. Customer support is available via phone and email from 6am to 6pm PST or 9am to 9pm EST.

SmartFax is an online fax service which allows you to send and receive fax messages from anywhere within the continental United States. The service offers the ability to select a toll free number, a vanity number and a local fax number depending on which of the four packages offered you choose. After a 2-minute setup process, you can start using the faxing services right away. SmartFax also features online, real time reports, fax broadcast and fax archives. The e-mail to fax and fax to email services are easy to use thanks to an effective online control panel.

The lowest pricing plan is SmartFax Pro, which provides free unlimited inbound and 5 cents per page outbound faxing for $6.95/per month. With SmartFax Unlimited Local for $9.95 a month you receive unlimited inbound and outbound faxing. For both of these plans the customer can choose a preferred local number and check its availability online. SmartFax Toll Free and SmartFax Unlimited Toll Free include a random toll free fax number and a vanity toll free number for $9.95 per month and $12.95 per month, respectively. While SmartFax Toll Free includes free unlimited inbound and 5 cents/page outbound faxing, SmartFax Unlimited Toll Free features unlimited sent and received pages. There is no setup fee for any of the four pricing plans. International destinations and rates can be checked on the SmartFax web page.

If you already have a toll free number and you want to switch to SmartFax, you can download a transfer form onsite and fax it to the customer support. SmartFax also provides a broadcasting service which allows you to send hundreds of faxes simultaneously to multiple recipients. For the SmartFax Pro and SmartFax Toll Free pricing plans, fax broadcasting is available to a maximum of 5000 numbers, while for the other two plans only 200 numbers are included. SmartFax Pro and SmartFax Toll Free also include a $50 spending limit and cover page removal. For the SmartFax Pro plan, there is a 30-day free trial period.

SmartFax is completely integrated with Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express and Windows Messaging. The service also includes a fax editor which allows you to select, edit or annotate various pre-defined cover pages and use your electronic signature. SmartFax allows customers to send faxes online directly only in PDF format. For Microsoft application documents such as Word, SmartFax created a printer driver which can be downloaded from the online interface. Customer service is available via email, live chat with a SmartFax representative or by requesting a call back. There are also a FAQ section and several guides in PDF format available.