But overall, based on its global coverage, reliability and multiple international addresses to choose from, Fax.Plus seems like the best online fax service.Īlso, if you want to know my thoughts use eFax to receive and GotFreeFaxes for sending. RingCentral could be a great bargain if you are into more cloud services.
For those sending less than 10 pages, then nothing beats the free package offered by Fax.Plus, which unlike other free services, allows you to receive faxes for free as well (as long as the cumulative sent/received faxes don’t exceed 10 pages). For example, if you are not based within the US or Canada, then SR Fax and Nextiva will not register you unless you use a good VPN service and get a US number which might result in additional costs. To conclude, there is no single ‘best’ online fax service it all depends on your particular needs. Paid via credit card, eFax gives two paid plans and one limited free plan which doesn’t allow outbound faxes.ĮFax’s mobile app is available on iPhones and Androids It is packed with some features that others don’t offer like eSignatures, sharing up to 1GB heavy files and a lifetime cloud storage space.
For professional use, HIPAA compliance was a deciding factor, because even if you don’t work in the health care industry, an HIPAA-compliant service has privacy and security safeguards in place to protect customer data.EFax has a 30-day free trial but a bit too expensive for our taste. Features that give users control over their data, like letting you set how long a fax is stored and the ability to delete old faxes, provide added peace of mind. So we examined the privacy and security policies for all the services we tested, and we asked the companies how they secured their customers’ faxes during transmission and when stored. A strong security policy: In many cases, the kind of documents people need to fax contain sensitive information, such as phone numbers and even social security numbers.The most robust fax services offer support for Microsoft Office files, different types of image files, plain text files, and more. We preferred those that could fax more formats, so you don’t have to convert files before sending them.