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.

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.

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.

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.

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”.