The winner of Popfax Summer Contest

Popfax Summer Contest for customers took place in July-August 2012. The winner should provide the most memorable description or picture about "How Popfax helps them stay connected with their office this summer" that Popfax Marketing teams could reuse for our communication.

Popfax Summer Contest is over now and we are happy to announce that, after a few weeks of processing a wide variety of amazing pictures and descriptions about Popfax service, our marketing teams have chosen the winner.

Congratulations to to Jürgen Bühler, the winner of Popfax Summer Contest!

• Prize: the new Samsung Galaxy S III
• Winning entry: „Free like Seagulls! Thanks to Popfax service we are able to manage our affairs and interact with our customers, while enjoying the fresh sea air, on an island located 1000 km away from our office.”
• Winning picture:

As we appreciated another description, we also award James Callaghan who demonstrated a kind feedback.

• Prize: Popfax mug and lanyard
• Winning entry: „Popfax connects my home office and my mobile office - on the train, in an airport, in a clients office - faxes, text messages - come rain or shine - always there always working. Fantastic.”

We thank all participants who shared with us their experience about remote work during summer holidays using our unified messaging solutions. The scope of the contest was to highlight the advantages of cloud based features (fax email, SMS, voice mail, conference calls, etc.) that allow business professionals to stay in touch with their offices from any place of the world. The winning description is an example of target achievement: using Popfax services, professionals can manage efficiently their business communication from everywhere (even 1000 km away from the office), whilst enjoying their summer leisure trip.

New summer contest from Popfax: subscribe and take a chance to win!

Popfax.com, the global provider of professional unified messaging solutions is excited to announce the beginning of a new summer contest for its new and existing customers. The winner will receive the New Samsung Galaxy S III !

Are you out of your office this summer? Don’t worry, Popfax helps you to stay connected with your office and manage your communication remotely. How? By subscribing to the new Summer Promotion pack that includes a 40% discount and an all-in-one unified messaging solution with:

1. A local fax number for 2 years
2. 500 fax pages to send and unlimited reception
3. All productivity options included (fax to email, SMS, conference call, voice mail, …)
4. A chance to win the New Samsung Galaxy S III by taking part in the Popfax Summer Contest!

How to take part in the Popfax Summer Contest? It’s this easy:

1. Access the www.popfax.com page.
2. Subscribe to Summer Promo Offer (or at least to the 1 Year Send and Receive package) during the contest period, from July 20th, 2012 until August 20th, 2012.
3. Send us a picture or a short description about "How Popfax helps you stay connected with your office this summer" to contest@popfax.com, along with your subscription details.

The author of the most original answer will be selected by the Popfax marketing team and will be announced on September 3rd, 2012. The winner will be notified by email and the information will be published on all Popfax media communication channels.

“We want to help our customers to stay connected with their offices from wherever they are. So, we are happy to announce our new Summer Package with all unified messaging features included, along with our new Summer Contest that gives the participants an exciting opportunity to win the New Samsung Galaxy S III. We wish good luck to all participants, the prize is waiting for the winner.” declared Vladimir Popesco, founder and CEO of Popfax.

Still thinking about it? More information about the new Popfax Summer Contest is available here: Contest Terms & Conditions.

TooFAX merges with Popfax: a consolidation for the benefit of our clients

Novaleo decided to merge its TooFAX service with Popfax, one of its French competitors.

This Monday, June the 11th, Novaleo decided to merge its TooFAX service with Popfax, one of its French competitors. Through its consolidation with the European leader in hosted professional fax services (aka SaaS, "Software as a Service") TooFAX is offering an increaseingly secure future to its clients.

"In our very competitive market, it makes sense to us to offer our clients the long term perspective of a worldwide operator like POPFAX. Every one of our clients will benefit through this from the best aspects of both the TooFAX and Popfax offers, as well as the best price in the long term" said Patrice Gueudelot, Founder of Novaleo, the operator of TooFAX.

Indeed, the volumes that Popfax.com managed to reach through being a leading presence in 23 countries, provides the assurance of quality and robustness, as well as unbeatable prices for all its clients, including those coming from TooFAX.

"With this operation, we have committed ourselves to offering each TooFAX client a service at least as good as before, by keeping all of its features and by adding all the advantages of the Popfax.com offer. All this for a better price. It is very important that all of our clients know and understand that they are the big winners in this merger" confirmed Vladimir Popesco, Founder and CEO of POPFAX.

Keep your faxes organized with Popfax built-in OCR solution

Searching your fax archives by keywords as well as selecting, copying and pasting from a received fax into another document is now possible for Popfax customers. Discover the improved OCR feature provided by Popfax - the global provider of professional fax email service.

How to send faxes from a web interface with Popfax.com

A video tutorial on how to send faxes from a web interface using Popfax.com service - the global provider of professional Internet fax service.

Popfax launches a new version of its mobile website

Popfax.com - the global provider of professional online fax service, is happy to announce its freshly redesigned mobile website. With the Popfax mobile website, mobile devices are de facto, fully featured, miniature fax machines. The mobile web site is compatible with all mobile operating systems such as iOS, Android, Blackberry, etc. and includes the full range of Internet fax features provided by Popfax.

Additionally, users can download Popcompanion mobile - a free application for Android, iPhone and BlackBerry developed by Popfax.com. It allows users to send and receive faxes, to send SMS’s, to receive voice messages, to manage contacts and folders through www.popfax.com API. It is another window to a Popfax.com online account. It runs in several languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, etc.

Conference Calls for business professionals, by Popfax.com

Cloud based services have changed the way business professionals interact. Professionals can operate with their partners from abroad, being able to initiate a virtual conference in just few clicks on the web. Whether it’s for a business meeting, financial reporting or a sales presentation, there is no need to organize in-house meetings and gather all business partners together in the same meeting room. The Conference Call tool is an alternative to traveling and commuting, and it allows professionals to participate in conferences from any place in the world, whether in or out of their office.

Popfax.com - the global provider of unified messaging solutions – has enriched its productivity features by launching a Conference Call service for its clients. The option was designed to facilitate business communication by connecting multiple professionals to a hosted service, in a single conference. The process flow is really simple: a host creates a conference call, invites its participants and attends the conference by calling a dial-in number.

The main advantages of the conference call feature by Popfax, compared with other conference call services are as follows:

-    High Res Telephony Voice quality: our service runs on a plain high quality digital standard telephony network. Provided that all participants have good incoming call quality, you can experience a great conference call in which every participant can be clearly heard!
-    Worldwide reachability by offering local numbers, callable from many countries: the same conference can be accessed from several countries without any extra cost.
-    Cost effectiveness: the conference organizer can chose between three types of pricing:
•    The organizer assumes 100% of the cost by offering free phone entry numbers to participants.
•    The organizer offers a locally callable conference to the participants who will call a geographical number in their country or area.
•    Calling Party Pays: the organizer bears no cost at all, by inviting participants to call in via some premium rate numbers that finance the service.
-    Security: the conference call organizer receives an email notification stating the start time of the conference and the unique code for accessing the conference. Subsequently, this private information can be forwarded to all attendees.
-    Reporting: a detailed report is sent to the host’s email, indicating the main statistics of the conference call.

Popfax.com the leading European provider of professional Internet fax service, provides its customers with a cost-effective and very high quality Conference Call Service. “The highly professional sound and global reachability are the competitive advantages that help us make our customers’ meetings a success” says Vladimir Popesco, the CEO of Popfax.

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.

Only 5 days left to benefit from Popfax Winter Promotion!

Available until January 15th, 2012

How to benefit from this offer? Just go to Popfax.com website. Click on promotional banner „Popfax Winter Promotion -40%”. Proceed towards payment.

What is included?

A local fax number for 2 YEARS with free reception
All productivity feature included (mail to fax, SMS, voice mail, call transfer...)
500 UNITS to send faxes, SMSs, perform call transfers

40% Discount

End of Summer Contest!

The Popfax Summer Contest is now over! Thank you for participating and being a part of it! We’ll announce the Winner and owner of the Samsung Galaxy Tab on 10th of September, on our Popfax page on Facebook.

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!

Free OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for received faxes with Popfax

Popcompanion mobile - a new Android application to send and receive faxes

Popfax.com has developed a new Android application called Popcompanion mobile that turns your mobile phone into a miniature fax machine. It allows you to instantly send and receive faxes on the go. Your business communications now fit in your pocket!

The new application works in conjunction with a Popfax online account and allows customers to:

• Send and receive faxes or SMSs
• View, download and forward faxes to email, or to another fax number
• Receive and listen to voice messages
• Personalize faxes with a cover page
• Manage personal contacts and folders

The application is available for free and can be downloaded from our web site or Android marketplace. Start using it right away. Enjoy!

2010 end of the year promotion is live! Hurry up, great discounts available now!

2 years of subscription including 500 fax pages and Option Pack with voice mail for FREE!
(Save more than 40 %) Only during this Holiday Season!

Unified messaging (Fax, SMS, Voice Mail) by Popfax.com

Popfax.com extends the scope of services offered to its customers with a voice mail now associated with the Popfax number. From now on, the number can selectively answer to voice or fax calls. This first voice service comes as a move towards unified messaging that has been initiated when including SMS services.

In our high tech world, phone calls and faxes, along with other means of communication, are at the core of business operations. It happens, though, that voice calls can be intrusive at some times or that one can’t always be available to answer important business calls.

Therefore, Popfax.com has come up with a new “voice mail” feature for customers interested in reliable and innovative Unified Messaging Services, enriching its original Internet Fax service. The voice messaging service is a voice recorder associated with a Popfax account. It detects the type of call received, playing a personalized welcome message to voice calls, and then acts like an answering machine. Messages are then forwarded by email or stored in the Popfax account on the Web.

Why does the Popfax.com voice mail option increase productivity? Just because it makes Popfax.com customers 100% reachable at any time:

1. not only by fax but also by voice calls;
2. without being disturbed by intrusive phone calls during meetings ;
3. and without having to spend anything, the option is fully included in Popfax.com offer at no extra cost!

Vladimir Popesco, the founder and CEO of Popfax says: “Our team has the ambition to create new solutions and to improve the quality of communication for our customers beyond Internet fax services. We believe that unsolicited or unexpected voice calls have started to become very intrusive to many businessmen. Our clients now have a new filtering option at no extra cost. We keep being focused on our strategy of providing low cost, fully featured and always richer services.”

How secure is your fax sending?

For a corporation that might have a lot of employees traditional faxing presents a number of security challenges:

• If left unattended, the sensitive information contained in the fax can be intercepted by a third party.
• Fax machines often save copies of received faxes internally, making it possible for anyone who has access to the fax machine to print out additional copies of the fax content.

• Fax machines generally print out the transmitted messages on paper, which could be placed in an insecure location, if not destroyed.

An answer to this fax security challenge is safe Internet faxing, namely the registered fax feature patented by Popfax.com. Even though any Internet fax service is much more secure than traditional faxing, due to online storage of faxes on secure servers and online fax transmission via highly secured HTTPS websites, the registered fax feature includes a legal document that guarantees both the fax delivery and its integrity. The special features of this service are as follows:

– The sending is performed online, using a secured connection and an account provided by the Internet fax provider.
– The fax document is digitally signed using non-reversible cryptography elements and the signature is then printed on the last page of the document for facsimile transmission.
– The recipient receives the fax document with the unique password and digital signature to access the file and to validate its authenticity. Consequently, no one except the receiver will have access to this fax.
– The sender receives an email notification and a transmission report, confirming the fax delivery. In this way, the delivery and the fax authenticity is guaranteed, the fax content cannot be modified, viewed or accessed by a third party.
– The sender and the receiver can check the authenticity of the registered fax at any time in a secured web interface, as the fax is stored for a long period. Moreover, this document can be used as legal evidence in case of dispute between the parties.

Whether you deal with sensitive financial data, patient health information, judicial papers or other privileged information, secure internet fax solutions offer an assurance that the contents of your fax transmissions are safeguarded.

Popfax.com introduces its new interactive web interface

Popfax.com presents its new design with an increased number of faxing options and an optimized graphical interface. Now end-users can benefit from simpler and more enjoyable online faxing.

Popfax.com is taking a "breath of fresh air" by redesigning its web interface for those who want to send and receive faxes more efficiently. Thus, Popfax is changing not only the appearance of the service, but also making the whole process of interaction between the user and the system easier and more user-friendly:

1. It introduces the definition of placement – Users knows exactly where they are and what steps to take, in order to accomplish their goals.
2. The Offer page lists the advantages of Internet fax compared with traditional fax machines.
3. The Subscription process was simplified being completed in 4 steps with minimal information required.
4. Unique area for partners, affiliates and corporate solutions.
5. A personal area which includes all fax tools and options for managing your business communication needs.
6. The web interface is available in more than 20 languages, thus making it a truly global service, available for everyone, everywhere.

With the introduction of this new web design from Popfax.com, users can manipulate their fax communication needs more easily. That’s why it is well worth trying.

Mobile fax by Popfax.com

Popfax.com presents a new web solution for sending and receiving faxes using mobile devices and PDAs.

Did you ever imagine that someday a traditional fax machine would fit into a small mobile phone? This has become a reality thanks to Popfax.com by POPESCO. With the new PDA web site from Popfax, mobile devices are de facto, fully featured, miniature fax machines! Having access to mobile fax services in the pocket is an essential for people who are always on the move. Mobility, flexibility and accessibility are the main keywords for online faxing through the new PDA web interface launched by Popfax. It allows end-users to send and receive faxes instantly. All you need is a mobile phone or PDA and Internet connection - no additional software required! The new mobile web site is compatible with all iPhones, Blackberries, and other PDAs or Smartphones, and includes the full range of Internet fax features. The mobile fax service is easy to use and includes simplified design and all available productivity fax tools. You no longer have to waste your time with old generation fax equipment, sending and receiving is complete in a few simple steps. Just imagine how convenient it would be to take a picture of a document from your PDA, and fax it instantly.

The main features that the Popfax mobile web site adds to your Smartphone, turning it into the perfect business and personal communication tool are listed below:

- Sending and receiving faxes and SMSs from mobiles everywhere (at flat rates even when roaming)
- Personalization of faxes with a cover page
- Managing personal contacts
- Free trial page to send faxes

Vladimir Popesco, founder of POPESCO, the company which runs Popfax.com, says: “with the addition of this new interface to the Popfax.com service it is our ambition to bring Internet faxing to all mobile devices and make it more accessible and cost effective, thus increasing customer productivity even when on the move.”
In addition, its new web service for mobiles is supplied in 19 languages and customer support is available in 7 languages. Over 50,000 Professional customers worldwide trust Popfax.com services.

Popfax.com launches new Internet fax features for 2010

Popfax.com, the leading global provider of Internet fax services, is happy to announce a set of tools and features than shall increase Popfax customers’ productivity:

1. Cover page – a feature to personalize user’s faxes with their company logo and address. The feature is available for all users and the rate per page is the same as for regular fax pages.

2. Fax mail merge – an option to fax customized documents to hundreds of destinations. Customer’s documents can include as many merge-fields of information as they want, allowing them to create individually personalized faxes, and to automate repetitive document production tasks.

3. OCR fax indexing – all incoming Internet faxes are now provided as indexable PDF files. This means that customers can search for any content in their fax files using any document management system.

4. Registered fax – a feature that consists in sending an electronic document by fax where both the content is certified and the delivery to the recipient is guaranteed. It serves the purpose of creating legal evidence that unalterable information has been shared between the sender and the receiver of the registered fax.

5. Popcompanion - a desktop application that runs minimized and in the background to receive and send faxes through Popfax.com API. It is another window to the customer’s Popfax.com account and it is designed to run on Linux, OSX and Windows.

6. Popfax – printer driver – the driver that prints documents edited from within any desktop application to any fax worldwide, and that is now compatible with Windows 7.