Why use an online fax service? -- Oct 19 2009, 10:30 AM

Lower Cost: Typically the monthly fee you pay an online fax service is less than the cost of a dedicated phone line, and you have no long distance charges. In addition, you don't have to own a fax machine, which also means you don't have to buy paper or toner. Even if you decide to print your faxes, you can still delete junk faxes or other documents you do not need to keep, which will reduce consumption of materials.

More efficient use of time: Many carriers allow you to set up multiple receive emails, so your faxes are automatically delivered to whomever you choose. Because you are receiving faxes via email, you will also receive them on email enabled PDA's. You can then review faxes and take action.

More reliable: You will no longer have to deal with the limitation of your phone line or fax machines. This means no busy signals, no running out of paper, no paper jams, etc.

Environmentally Responsible: Reducing consumption not only reduces costs, it's the responsible thing to do for the environment. Printing every junk fax or bad transmission creates trash and costs money.

Security: Most online fax services support high level encryption technology. Furthermore, you can designate which email addresses faxes are sent to, which is significantly more secure than having sensitive documents sit in a shared fax machine.