About Online Fax Services:

Online fax services provide people with the ability to receive faxes in their email or through the web. When you sign up for a service you will be given your own fax number that is either local or toll free; depending on your preference and the service you choose. You can use this number to send and receive faxes just as if you had a second phone line connected to a fax machine. When a person sends a fax to this number, you will receive the faxed document (or an alert of the fax transmission) in an email. Most services also store the faxes for a period of time in an online interface that you can access with your personal login information. These services also allow you to send faxes from the online interface or even give you the ability to send faxes directly through email. An online fax service is the most cost effective and convenient way to manage your faxing needs.

Advantages of an Online Fax Service or "Internet Fax Service":

• Very inexpensive: Most services are less than $10/ month, and online fax services do not require the expense of a fixed landline.
• Mobile: Because faxes are received through email, you will be able to receive the fax anywhere you can read your email.
• More secure: You don’t have to worry about a fax coming in and the wrong person picking it up off the machine.

Special Features Offered by Some Online Fax Companies

• Mobile Apps
• International Faxing
• E-Signature
• Bundled Services

A Message from the Creators of FindAFax

We've created this site because we are passionate about finding great technology tools that ordinary people can use to save money and be more efficient. The variety of online fax services can seem overwhelming, but using them is often fairly simple. Our goal with FindAFax is to communicate clearly about these services so you can take advantage of these useful tools and feel confident that you've selected the one that best fits your needs.

Impartial and Trustworthy

In order to be certain that we are truly objective and unbiased, before writing reviews, we judge each plan using the same set of standards. This process creates the Pros and Cons that we include on the Overview page for every plan. The chart below contains the criteria that we use:

PROS	CONS
5% or more prepayment (annual) discount	Plan includes hidden fees
Cost of plan works out to 2¢ or less per page	Plan has startup fee(s)
30 day or longer free trial	Cost of plan works out to 5¢ or more per page
40 or more states with local numbers available	Separate outgoing & incoming page allocations
More than 6 months of free fax storage	No free trial period of time
Offers a preview of the fax before sending	25 or less states with local numbers available
Incoming & outgoing overage pages cost 5¢ or less	Less than one month free fax storage
Customer support is available by phone 24/7	Software download or extra hardware required
Sign documents/faxes in the service’s interface	Can’t send faxes by email
Primary customer support based in the U.S.	No email delivery confirmation
Provider has iPhone, Android, and Blackberry apps	Incoming or outgoing overages are 10¢ or more
	Customer support is not available by phone
	Plan limits the number of faxes in/out per day
	Only one or two email addresses can send faxes
	Service has had outage(s) in the past 6 months
	Plan offers no outgoing pages
	Plan offers no incoming pages
	The service does not offer mobile apps