Monday, February 2, 2009

What are Fax Services and Programs?

By Brian Stratmore

The Internet has changed the way we live our lives and communicate with other people. With faxing it is no different; fax services, software and servers all help us send faxes in a matter of seconds to anywhere in the World!

What Is A Fax Service?

Many companies offer to send fax through their own fax servers, called a web fax service.

As a client you will be able to log in your web dashboard and manage all your faxing in the same way as emails, without having to install nothing, and with a very easy to use method.

Faxing services charge you an affordable monthly fee, generally to send and receive 300 faxes in a month. After that, they charge you on a per-fax basis.

What is Faxing Software?

Fax software requires you to install them, but you have more control of your communications. You can send faxes either through your connection, a fax modem or a fax server, these are all good ways to ensure your messages will be delivered rapidly.

Fax software offer many benefits like the ability to send to multiple recipients, tracking, reporting and more.

Nowadays fax programs have evolved in such a way that they form are a communications center! Yes, you can manage messaging, phone calls, and e-mails from a single application.

Which is The best Option to Choose?

This is something that will be dependent on your experience and the intended use. Small companies will find internet fax services more friendly, and then can move on to try advanced fax software.

Big companies will not find services so cost-effective due to large volumes of faxing, in these cases is better to use fax server software.

If your thing is faxing for personal reasons, you can use both as there are alternatives for the personal user on both. The price for personal faxing is very cheap and you won't have to deal with an old fax machine again! - 15634

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