If you are planning to say good-bye to your conventional fax machine and instead move over to something more cost-effective, easy to use and always on, you might want to checkout GreenFax.
While i have written about many free fax services, the fact of the matter is, these services are not that great when it comes to mission critical faxing. For mission critical faxing, you need to have a pro account and in this article, i will walk you through some of the cool features offered by GreenFax.
1.) With GreenFax you can both send as well as receive faxes. The fax is directly sent to your inbox. If your computer or mobile device can open a PDF / TIFF, you can read the fax from that particular device. (You have the option to receive your inbound faxes in either PDF format or TIFF format)
2.) GreenFax offers a pretty neat send-only service for faxes to US and Canada. The send-only option is basically a pay-as-you-go service, you get charged 7 cents for the first page of any fax and 5 cents for additional pages. The site also offers international faxing, which can come in handy in time of need.
3.) You can even send your inbound faxes to multiple email accounts. GreenFax allows you to add up to five email addresses to your account.
4.) GreenFax offers a cancel-anytime policy which applies to all of their service plans. You can cancel any time and GreenFax will promptly refund any unused portion of your payment.
5.) When it comes to sending Fax, GreenFax will retry to send the fax 3 times (at 5-10 minute intervals) in the case of a busy signal at the receiving end. If all 3 attempts result in busy signals, the job will fail and the sender will receive a failure notice.
6.) GreenFax also offers a email-to-fax feature which allows users to send fax directly using the email.
7.) GreenFax supports outbound faxing of documents and files in the following formats: Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word (doc), HTML, Microsoft Excel (xls), Rich Text Format (rtf), Text (txt), GIF Image (gif), JPEG Image (jpeg, jpg), Tagged Image File Format (tiff, tif).
8.) With GreenFax, you do not get a busy signal. What this means is, that you can receive multiple faxes simultaneously. You also get Local numbers which are available for 150+ area codes (US only).
You can checkout the various plans offered by GreenFax by clicking here.
In my opinion, moving to a paperless faxing mechanism is the best option for our future. As per a report, it is estimated that conventional fax machines consume more than 200 billion pages of paper each year in the US alone. If just 5% of this faxing were done paperlessly, this would save over 1 million trees per year.
Unfortunately, GreenFax doesn’t provide any trials.
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