The Winner of the Popfax Promo Sharing Contest has been announced!

The Popfax Winter Promotion is over. Customers who purchased the Promotional Offer could to share a short message about their subscription on Facebook, Twitter or G+, in order to be in with a chance of having their purchase refunded. All shares and entries have been collected, and a winner has been selected through a random 1/100 draw.

Congratulations to AAF International, the winner of Full Refund

Winning Share:

Popfax thanks its customers for their trust in Popfax services and for sharing the Winter Promotional Offer on social media sites.

All users of social networks are welcome to follow Popfax on Google+, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn and share their experience and opinions.

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Switching business to a Cloud Fax Service provided by Popfax - is it worth it?

Many members of a company often spend a lot of time dealing with fax communication issues and with fax equipment maintenance. If they could devote this time and attention instead to their core business, it would certainly help increase the company’s growth and profitability, and take the business to the next level. By adopting cloud-based B2B fax solutions businesses can automate fax communication right away. Moreover, they can choose flexible pay-as-you-go solutions which can be scaled up or down based on their changing requirements.

The basic benefits of using internet fax solutions for any business:

RELIABILITY
A cloud-based fax service is always on, always ready - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Hundreds of thousands of active fax runtimes run smoothly every day with Popfax.

PERFORMANCE
No more queuing at the fax machine, no busy signals, paper jam or lost faxes. An online fax service allows users to manage all incoming and outgoing faxes, customize messages, track all transmissions and easily increase company’s efficiency. A virtual fax number can accept multiple faxes at once, saving the sender time redialing when the fax machine is busy.

PRIVACY
No sensitive information left out on paper in the open. A cloud-based 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. With Registered Fax option, both the content integrity and the delivery to the recipient are guaranteed.

MOBILITY
Traditional faxes require the presence of a physical fax machine, whereas internet fax requires only an Internet-enabled computer or handheld device. The result is that people can send and receive faxes from wherever they are at their own convenience without looking for a post offices or paying fax fees at hotels.

SAVINGS
An online fax service reduces communication costs by up to 80%. No need of fax machine purchasing, repairs and maintenance. No more toner, paper and expensive phone bills. For about 0.05 EUR user can send faxes worldwide, and the fax reception is unlimited and free.

OWN FAX NUMBER
Most of Internet fax providers allows choosing a local fax number from the country of residence or from a different one, depending on business activity.
Or users can keep their actual fax number by porting it to a virtual fax service as Popfax.

USEFUL OPTIONS
Traditional fax machine is very limited to available options comparing to a cloud based fax service:
*Cover page
*Personalized fax sending
*Multiple fax sending
*Fax reception at multiple email addresses
*Fax storage
*Scan & Fax

EASY TO SETUP
No phone line installation or hardware purchasing required. Usually it takes only a few minutes to subscribe for an internet fax service. The only things required is a device (Laptop, PC, Tablet or Smartphone) and Internet connection.

Try for free!

There are only advantages to an internet fax service. Try our B2B fax solutions and experience the many benefits it can bring to your business.

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.

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.

Popfax offers its productivity features for free during the Easter Holidays

Popfax.com – the global provider of unified messaging solutions, is offering its productivity features for free (From 1st - 30th of April).

Recent market surveys show a growing trend of business professionals working remotely, by managing their businesses using cloud based services and mobile devices. Professionals can access and manage their essential documents and communication from any place in the world, while out of the office.

Business managers are adopting mobile devices and unified messaging services as an additional extension of existing communication tools. Mobility, flexibility and cost-efficiency are the core elements that lead to the substitution of traditional communication means by web based services like Internet fax, voice mail, call transfer, conference calls and others. Whether enterprise owners are on a business trip, meeting with partners, or simply on vacation, they can stay in touch with their office anytime and anywhere if an Internet connection is available.

On the occasion of the Easter holidays, business professionals will, most probably, be out of the office for some days. To help them stay in touch with their businesses during these days off, Popfax.com – the global provider of unified messaging solutions, is offering its productivity features for free (From 1st - 30th of April).

The Popfax productivity tools are collected in an “Option Pack” which allows customers to manage their business communication on the move, using the following unified messaging features:

1) Mail to fax – allows users to send faxes via email;
2) Voice mail – create a personalized welcome message and receive messages as audio files attached to an email;
3) Call transfer - forward business calls to a number at which the calls will be answered;
4) Conference calls – organize worldwide phone conferences from anywhere.

Additionally, Popfax customers can download and use, for free, the mobile application “Popcompanion mobile”, compatible with iOS, Android and Blackberry mobile operating systems.

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

Voicemail contest for Popfax Customers

Popfax.com, the global provider of professional Internet fax services, is pleased to announce a new contest for its customers. Five Amazon.com gift cards (€100 each) are waiting for the participants who send us the best audio spots about the Popfax service: an audio advertising, a thanking or greeting.

The contest begins on November 21^st, 2011 and is only open to customers 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, Hungary, Croatia, Poland, Romania, Moldova, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and who have reached the age of majority at the time of entry.

Five winning voicemails (one in each of the following languages: French, English, Italian, Spanish and German) that promote Popfax will be selected by the Popfax.com marketing team and announced on January 9^th, 2012. The selection will be made based on the voicemail that promotes the Popfax service in the most remarkable and enjoyable way. The winners will be notified by email and revealed on Popfax’s different social media accounts (including the Popfax Facebook page). The voicemails might be reused in Popfax communication.

“This voicemail contest invites our customers to use more of the features embedded in our unified messaging solution. Indeed, although we are well-known for our professional fax solutions, our service includes many productivity features like Internet fax, SMS, fax email, call transfer and voicemail... We are using this contest as an opportunity to promote the voicemail option to all our current and future customers, some of whom might have not yet discovered it. This feature allows end-users to set up their Popfax account as an answering machine and receive voice messages on the move, either by e-mail or by calling back their number like a traditional answering machine.” said Vladimir Popesco the CEO and founder of Popfax.com.

In order to take part in the contest, customers have to:

1. Access their Popfax.com account, go to Account Management -> Voice parameters and enable the Voicemail option.
2. Activate “Email notification” and “Permanent redirection of voice messages to your email box”, then click on “Modify”.
3. Call their Popfax.com fax number and leave the voicemail related to Popfax that they think will be the “best” audio spot. As a result, they will receive the recorded voicemail in their email.
4. Register the recorded voicemail in the contest.

More information on the contest’s rules and requirements can be found on the Popfax Facebook page.

Winning picture of Popfax summer contest

Congratulations to Vasco Oliveira – the WINNER of the Summer Contest 2011 and new owner of a Samsung Galaxy Tab & Popfax mug!

He was the photographer of the winning picture, showing his summer office, with Popfax connecting him and his business.

Our marketing team appreciated how, with a noticeable touch of humor, Vasco’s picture demonstrated the ubiquity and mobility of Popfax unified messaging solutions, allowing professionals to stay connected with their businesses, whether on the move or on vacation.

“The idea of having a creative contest was hovering in our minds for a long time. The summer holiday period was just the right time to start it. We wanted to demonstrate the efficiency of Popfax unified messaging solutions for professionals out of the office. It was a pleasant experience for all of us, and hopefully for our customers, to be involved in this merry event.” says Vladimir Popesco, the General Manager of Popfax.com.

The Contest was held between July 18th, 2011 and September 2nd, 2011 and was open to all clients with a Popfax number. The winning picture was chosen by the Popfax marketing team, who performed a ranking of all pictures sent in for the contest. The winning picture has also been posted on the Popfax Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Popfax/148396398519818.

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.

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!

Popfax extends its coverage in USA

Popfax.com the leading European provider of Internet fax services has extended coverage on the American continent, providing local fax numbers in more than 200 cities across the biggest metropolitan areas. This expansion is a part of the company strategy in providing cost-effective, fully featured and worlwide available fax services.

As USA is the leading technological market with the biggest Internet usage rate in North America, in the first quarter of 2011, Popfax intends to cover additional top 100 cities, including: Philadelphia, Jacksonville, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Miami, Jersey City, Orlando, Arlington, Augusta-Richmond and others.
The next step in increasing its presence on the American continent will be the implementation of automated portability process: the users will be able to order the portability online and keep their fax numbers, while subscribing to Popfax service.
“Even in difficult economic times, Popfax continues to extend its coverage, to develop new features as voice mail and to launch new versions of the productivity software tools as Popcompanion and Printer driver, thus strengthening its role as a leading global internet fax provider” said Vladimir Popesco, the General Manager at Popfax.com.


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, based on a “software as a service” business model, since 2006. 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 either replace fax server equipment, be used as a mobile fax fleet, or fit into a transactional application.

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.”