Turn your iPhone into an instant fax machine with Popfax

Following its strategy of expanding online fax services to mobile devices, Popfax.com- the global provider of internet fax services announces the launch of its free faxing application for iPhone.  Popfax now serves most of its customers’ mobile devices.

 

The new application called PopCompanion increases users’ mobility and productivity by providing them the possibility of sending and receiving faxes and managing their Popfax account directly from their iPhone, anywhere and anytime. Simply put, it turns the smart phone into a pocket fax machine, which is very easy to use: no more paper and toner expenses, no more annoying fax machines, just your mobile with professional faxing solutions.

The PopCompanion is much more than a simple application for faxing from a smart phone – it is a complete unified messaging tool with a wide range of features:

- Sending of simple text faxes, browsing the file from a local folder, or sending faxes with a cover page.

- Receiving of an unlimited number of faxes for free.

- Sending SMS’s worldwide.

- Receiving voicemails and personalizing the welcome message.

- Managing the Popfax.com account details and settings.

- Managing the contacts and using both phone and Popfax contacts to send fax messages.

The new PopCompanion for iPhone is available in the Apple App Store. Anyone can try the application by subscribing to the Popfax.com Free Trial offer of 3 days with no obligation to buy.

After you make sure that Popfax mobile app is suitable for your business faxing needs, you can take the next step of choosing one of the plans available at really affordable prices.

About Popfax.com

Popfax.com is a leading global provider of Internet fax services. It allows end-users to send and receive faxes using a web interface, an e-mail client, a desktop client or a printer driver which can be installed on a computer desktop. Integrated to front or back office applications, it allows the carrying out of transactional tasks via fax.

The service is edited by the French incorporated company POPFAX founded by Vladimir Popesco, and has been commercialized since 2006, based on a “software as a service” business model. It is both a solution for individual professionals (SMEs and SoHos) and for corporate customers who use this outsourced solution to meet their faxing needs. It can replace fax server equipment, be used as a mobile fax fleet, or fit into a transactional application.

Corporate internet fax solutions

Traditional faxing in a large corporation represents a heterogeneous ensemble of telephone lines, fax machines, multifunctional devices, expensive and complex fax servers and the replacement of paper stock and ink cartridges. All this results in intricate systems which are hard to maintain and environmentally unfriendly attitudes that results in unjustified office expense.

A virtual fax solution in a mobile and unified electronic messaging system, like fax to mail, mail to fax, mobile-desktop-web applications helps avoid printing most of your faxes. It would save tons of paper and ink cartridges, remove the need for fax equipment recycling, are wasting annually, conducting to for business owners.

Popfax.com – the leading European provider of Internet fax services, announces its new Corporate offer that provides a complete set of fax solutions that can be tailored to the communication needs of professionals.

The solutions for Corporate customers consists of several aspects of customization and provisioning that Popfax is aiming to face in order to satisfy its clients:

• Professional services – new Internet fax packages specially designed to fulfill specific companies’ communication needs. These packages are tailored offers for corporations interested in secure faxing, high-volume reception, personalized fax sending and number portability.
• Global account – a centralized management system, allowing administration and tracking of all fax users within a company.
• Custom development – the Internet fax service can be tailored and personalized for any communication needs of a company. The Popfax engineering team provides custom IT development on demand, thus expanding Internet fax use to new applications.
• Premium support – corporate fax solution includes, by default, strong contractual commitments for quality of service, a dedicated project manager and premium hardware and software solutions.

For more information on Popfax corporate offers, please consult the corporate fax solutions page.

“It took years of efforts and improvements to build and offer our professional Internet fax solutions as they are today. Based on our experience providing custom fax solutions to large corporations, we have laid down a methodology and a set of tools in order to speed-up the process of providing our fax solutions to enterprises” says Vladimir Popesco the General Manager of Popfax.com.

New Summer Contest for Popfax Customers!

Popfax.com, the leading internet fax service provider, announces the beginning of a summer contest for its customers! The winner will receive a Samsung Galaxy Tab device and a Popfax mug.

The contest begins on July 18, 2011 and is open only to individuals who are legal residents of countries where Popfax provides fax numbers: France, USA, UK, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Netherland, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Georgia, Hungary, Croatia, Poland, Romania, Moldova, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and are 18 years of age or older.

In order to join the contest, participants have to:

• Access the http://www.popfax.com page.
• Subscribe or extend their existing Popfax.com account for a Send & Receive package (1 year Send & receive or PROMO pack) during the contest period, from July 18, 2011 until September 2, 2011.
• Send an email to contest@popfax.com with their subscription details plus a picture of a strange or funny or unusual situation in relation with Popfax.

When the contest ends on September 2nd, our marketing teams will perform a ranking of the pictures from the customers who have sent a message with the subscription details. The winner will be notified by email and the information will be published on the Popfax Facebook page!

“We are very happy to announce our summer contest along with our new promotional offer. As many business professionals are away from their office this summer, we offer them the chance to win a Samsung Galaxy tab, which will allow them to stay in touch with their businesses: anytime, everywhere. All existing and new customers are welcome to join the contest, the prize is waiting for them!” said Vladimir Popesco, founder and CEO of Popfax.

More information about the Popfax Summer Contest is available on http://www.facebook.com/pages/Popfax/148396398519818 , “Events tab”.

Popfax.com allows you to stay in touch with your business even when out of the office

Most business people pack their communication tools to bring with them when they are away from the office, whether on vacation or a business trip, ensuring they won’t miss any important information, messages or replies from an investor or partner.
Your professional exchanges still rely on faxes for sending and receiving contracts, orders and other official documents. Therefore you need to have your fax come with you too.

As you are not able to fit the office fax machine in your luggage, it is time to switch to an Internet fax service!
Along with the advantages of sending and receiving faxes via the Internet, with Popfax.com you can leave without neglecting your business. Here are some ideas you can use for staying in contact with your clients, employers and partners using the Popfax.com service:

1. Before leaving home, make sure you have activated the option of redirection of your received faxes and voicemails to your email. Alternatively, you can access your inbox and view, save or forward the received unified messages at any time, from everywhere.

2. You can also activate the “Call transfer” option, recently launched by Popfax, and setup a call transfer to your mobile or landline in the place where you are staying. Thus you will be sure that you will not miss any important calls.

3. And lastly: add the Popcompanion mobile application (free) to your smartphone and benefit from a fully featured virtual fax machine on the go. An alternative can be to bookmark the mobile version of the Popfax website - http://m.popfax.com/ to manage your unified messages from anywhere in the world.

Now that you are fully ready to keep in touch with your business essentials whilst you are away, just go and relax!