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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How to port your actual fax number to an online fax service

Popfax assigns you a local fax number for receiving faxes in over 500  cities across more than 23 countries, and allows you to send faxes  worldwide. There is no difference between the digital fax number  provided by Popfax.com and a traditional fax number. If you already have  a fax number you can port it to Popfax.com

Already have a fax number? - Transfer it to the online fax service!

If  you already have a fax number you can port it to Popfax.com – thus you  will continue to receive faxes on your usual fax number.
You can both keep your fax number that you are accustomed to and benefit from all the advantages of a professional online fax service provided by Popfax.
If you intend to port your fax number, contact Popfax customer service via email support@popfax.com and subscribe to our Portability offer for only 140 EUR, that includes: 

• 2 Years of Send & Receive Subscription with free and unlimited fax reception
• Option pack activated for the whole duration
• 100 fax pages to send
• Free fax number portability

Thanks to Fax Number Portability you can transfer your fax number to the Popfax Service without interrupting fax communication and without the need to inform your customers of your new number.
The fax number portability is currently available in France, Spain, and the USA.
If it is not possible to port the existing number, you can get a new  fax number provided by Popfax and redirect faxes to your new Popfax  number, fully enjoying the Popfax service. Or, you can simply disconnect  your old fax number.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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”.