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.

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!

Internet Fax solutions provided by Popfax integrate with any Cloud-based professional application

Popfax provides the Internet Fax tool integration with all existing e-Business and professional critical applications, allowing users to fax directly from SAP, E-Commerce, CRM, ERP, etc. To accommodate the daily faxing needs of corporations, Popfax offers 2 free APIs (SOAP and SMTP) and a virtual printer driver in the Windows environment for faxing from any business application, thus providing companies with a powerful Internet-enabled fax solution.

New business models are automating, unifying and digitizing methods of communication with customers, merchants and partners. In many respects, with 130 million fax devices connected worldwide, fax remains an important means of exchanging business documents. By being able to easily combine the simple power of fax technology by Popfax with SAP, or with other CRM, ERP and e-Commerce software platforms, every company can have instant access to unified document communications for their e-business strategy.

The online fax service Popfax.com provides technology agnostic solutions (SOAP, SMTP, print to fax driver) compatible with ALL existing professional applications: subscribe to the service and, in a matter of minutes, you can integrate the fax function into your software and fax purchase orders, invoices, account statements (and others) directly from an SAP system or CRM platform.

How to integrate the Internet Fax Service to a business critical application?

To accommodate the daily faxing needs of corporations, Popfax provides 2 free APIs SOAP and SMTP (e-mail) for a variety of business applications. Documents from your application are sent through Popfax servers to the fax destination numbers. The faxes incoming to your dedicated numbers are routed by Popfax to your company CRM, SAP or other e-commerce system.

Powerful Enterprise Fax Solution

With Popfax Internet Fax Service you can:

• Send faxes directly from SAP modules, CRM directories, e-commerce systems, ERP platforms, etc.
• Include  cover pages, signatures etc. in outbound faxes
• Personalize documents for each recipient
• Certify the fax content using the “Registered fax” patented system
• Receive faxes within your enterprise critical application to fax numbers provided by Popfax or that you have previously ported to Popfax
• Receive notifications on each fax delivery
• Perform faxmailing to multiple users

Does your e-business application need to send and receive faxes and manage your business fax workflow?

Popfax guarantees the quality and good compatibility of the SOAP and SMTP APIs: tens of thousands of active runtimes of the Pop Companion and the Popfax printer driver run smoothly every day. This is because we have long experience with SOAP and SMTP APIs integration. The Popfax support team is at your service during local business hours.

Advantages of e-faxing integration with a company SAP or CRM software:

• Unified communication with suppliers: you can instantly forward incoming orders to merchants and vendors, including those who are not e-Business or Internet enabled;
• Quicker and easier communication of sales department with customers: the sales personnel can respond faster to customers’ orders and send invoices by fax without inconveniences related to the use of standard fax-machines;
• Easier management of fax communication: all sent and received faxes (as well as notifications on fax delivery) can be attached to specific customers, merchants, banks or partners;
• Efficient fax mailing directly from your back-office tool, etc.

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.

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.