How to send and receive faxes with iPhone using the Popfax mobile site or mobile fax application

In the first quarter of 2013, over 10% of the world’s web traffic originated from iPhones. Millions of people who are using iPhone have been very satisfied with all the things that they can do with their phone, including sending and receiving documents by fax.

If you have to send a fax right away, there are two easy ways to do it with an iPhone: 

•      Internet Fax Mobile Website

·         Your iPhone must have an internet connection.

·         You have to sign up for an internet fax service. You can subscribe to the internet fax provided by Popfax right from your iPhone.

·         Access m.popfax.com via your iPhone browser without any downloads or installations required.

·         Choose the Send & Receive Fax subscription with a dedicated fax number provided or try sending and receiving faxes online for free.

·         Login to your account at m.popfax.com from your iPhone.

·         Take picture of the document that should be sent by fax.

·         Save the scanned document on your iPhone with one of proposed extensions (*pdf, *doc, *jpg, *gif, etc.).

·         Enter the destination fax number(s).

·         Send the fax.

·         After sending your fax you receive a report informing you if your transmission was successful or, in case of any problems, the type of transmission error. You can see the status and the copy of your transmissions at any time in the “Outbox” of your Popfax.com account. A transmission journal is available for review under the “History” tab of your account.

•   Internet Fax Application for iPhone

·         Install Popcompanion Fax App from iTunes (your iPhone must have an internet connection).

·         Create a Popfax account or sign in to your existing account.

·         Choose the Send & Receive Fax subscription with a dedicated fax number provided, or try sending and receiving faxes online for free.

·         Scan the pages of the document one after the other with your iPhone camera.

·         The integrated image processor in Popcompanion adjusts the photo and converts it into a faxable black & white document.

·         As soon as you have taken a picture, you can rotate it 90 degrees, adjust the page size by dragging the document margins and approve it for sending.

·         Send the resulting assembled document to your fax correspondent.

·         You will receive a notification of delivery. You can see the status and the copy of your fax transmissions at any time in the “Outbox” of your Popfax account.

If you have to receive a fax urgently, follow these steps to receive faxes with an iPhone:

·         Access the mobile fax website m.popfax.com or install Popcompanion mobile fax application from iTunes.

·         Subscribe to Send & Receive Fax package with a dedicated fax number provided by Popfax.

·         Give the dedicated fax number that you received from Popfax to the fax sender. Ask them to send the fax as they normally would.

·         Find your fax in your Popfax account. It can be accessed at m.popfax.com, in the Popcompanion application, or in the email box linked to your Popfax account.

Video tutorial How to send and receive faxes with iPhone

The mobile fax technology used by Popfax.com is much faster than traditional paper fax machines. It saves time and increases the productivity of unified document communications. Once created, a Popfax account can be accessed from various Internet-enabled devices – PC, notebook, tablet, smartphone – giving absolute freedom to choose what device to fax from.
The clear and simple tariff plans are both for those who want to send and receive faxes with their own fax number and for those who only need to send faxes. Fax sending cost is 0.05 EUR/page.

You have a great opportunity to test the all-inclusive Popfax service with a fax number provided for free, and with no credit card details requested. The subscription to the Free Fax Trial in several clicks allows you to send up to 4 fax pages and to receive an unlimited number of faxes.  

If you extend the Free Trial you will keep the fax number provided for the test.

A global presence, with localized identically tailored packages, at an optimal price point and a low internal cost structure, make it possible for Popfax.com to provide a better service than other e-fax services for at least a half, and sometimes up to a quarter of the price. “Virtual fax numbers” are provided in 23 countries, services are available in 20 languages, professional support is delivered in 7 languages, and customers can use the “call me back” option to connect with the customer care department.
The Internet fax solutions provided by Popfax integrate with any Cloud-based or mobile-enabled enterprise application, thus providing companies with a powerful fax tool for instant access to unified document communications.
 

For various business needs, Popfax offers profitable discount-based Partner program and Affiliate program.

Popfax mobile fax website has been updated!

Popfax has announced the update of fully featured mobile fax website, which allows to perform any faxing operation with a smartphone, from subscribing to online fax services, getting local fax numbers, to sending/receiving faxes and adding fax credits and options on the move. 

Everything that can be mobile, becomes mobile! The world of communication is progressively moving over to mobile devices, and fax technology therefore, is following the trend, allowing to scan and send important documents by fax with an iPhone or Android-based device on the go.

With upgraded fully-featured mobile fax from Popfax all smartphone users can:

• subscribe to the internet fax service provided by Popfax right from an internet-enabled mobile device, by choosing the all-inclusive Send & Receive offer with a dedicated fax number offered or ported to Popfax, or by taking the Send Only pack with no fax number attached.


• try the Popfax service for free  from a smart phone.


• use any payment method available on Popfax.com to extend packages, options, sending credits from the mobile site. Mobile payments at m.popfax.com are highly secured and offer users a high level of confidence.

The Popfax mobile fax with a user-friendly interface in several languages (English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian, Romanian) is easy-to-use and includes a simplified design and all available productivity fax tools:

• Faxing documents of various extensions (*pdf, *doc, *jpg, *gif, etc.), previously saved on the mobile device and/or captured with the phone camera;
• Storing and managing sent/received faxes, SMS’s, voice mails;
• Customizing cover-pages for outbound faxes;
• Providing OCR in all received faxes;
• Grouping of all contacts.

The Internet Fax Mobile Site is instantly accessible to users via a browser across a wide range of devices and does not require any downloads or installations.

Freedom from phone-line connected fax machines and freedom to perform any faxing operation from a smartphone are both very good reasons to change for the wireless mobile fax provided by Popfax. Gain mobility NOW!

Scan and fax application for smartphones

In the first months of 2013, over 15% of world web traffic originated from smartphones. For app-addicted smartphone users, Popfax has developed the Popcompanion mobile fax app for iPhone and Android-based devices, which allows for the easy scanning and faxing of any document (single-page or multipage) with a smart phone/tablet.

Popcompanion application is worth adding to your app library: use it to scan & fax documents, notes and receipts with your smartphone camera.

Download the scan and fax application from iTunes, Google Play or Blackberry Marketplace NOW!

Fax is mobile with 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.

Popfax launches a new mobile application for BlackBerry

Popfax.com, the leading European provider of professional Internet fax services has launched the Mobile PopCompanion for BlackBerry. This is a unified messaging application that allows end-users to send and receive faxes, SMSs and voice messages from their smartphones, even when they are on the move. The application is designed to extend the use of Popfax Internet fax services to BlackBerry devices, popular smartphones among Popfax’s professional customers.

The application is free and can be downloaded from the Popfax website or from Blackberry App World. It includes all Popfax features, allowing end-users to:

• Manage their communication on the move – send faxes or SMSs to Popfax contacts, phone contacts or new contacts. Customize faxes with a cover page, receive notifications of fax delivery.
• Benefit from instant access to their faxes from anywhere – preview, copy and forward faxes to an email address or another fax number. Only an Internet connection is required; everything else is managed by the PopCompanion application.
• Organize personal contacts and faxes – manage personal contacts, set up groups of contacts, organize faxes in folders.
• Benefit from voice features – listen to or download received voice messages, set up the Popfax account as an answering machine.

“Blackberry was the first mobile operating system that optimized email use from a mobile device. We are achieving the same optimization with faxing and unified messaging by Popfax, following our strategy of expanding online fax services to mobile devices. PopCompanion for BlackBerry is the second application that we have launched, after the one for Android. Our next release will be an iPhone application. By having an application on all the top professional mobile platforms, we will now serve most of our customers’ devices,” declared Vladimir Popesco, the General Manager of Popfax.com.

Professionals can now efficiently manage their business workflow with the Mobile PopCompanion, a pocket fax machine.