This MyFax review offers information on MyFax.com and the MyFax Personal and Small Business fax service. Are you looking for an online fax service? Read this article and find out if MyFax has the Internet fax services you are looking for.
What Is MyFax?
MyFax provides online faxing services for individuals, small businesses, and corporations. Personal and small business services are grouped together. This Software as a Service (SaaS) is provided by Protus, founded in 1997, which offers other services including a virtual phone service my1voice, and a email marketing service called Campaigner. Smartphone apps, including an iPhone App and a BlackBerry App, are available.
In 2010, MyFax received awards from WebCPA, Lifehacker, American Banker, Information Week SMB, PCWorld, ALA (Association of Legal Administrators), and the Chicago Tribune, among others, and has been an award-winning company since 2004.
As with many other online businesses, MyFax has both an Affiliate Program and a Partner Program.
MyFax Personal and Small Business Fax Service
Features of the Personal and Small Business service include:
- send and receive faxes by email without downloading any software
- fax directly from Microsoft Office or Outlook, as well as from your iPhone or BlackBerry
- use up to 5 different email addresses to fax
- get a free toll-free or local fax number
- receive 24/7 customer support via live chat or phone
- have an archive of your first year of sent and received faxes maintained for a year
- have the ability to customize cover pages
- send free faxes to 41 countries, including Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, in South America; Canada in North America; China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Thailand in Asia; Australia and New Zealand in the South Pacific; and Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom in Europe.
- have an allowance of 100 sent pages and 200 received pages each month
The features described above are those of the $10/month program. For $20/month, one can send 200 pages and receive 200 pages. For $40, one cans send 400 pages and receive 400 pages per month. There is no contract required, and you can cancel the service any time.
MyFax Corporate Fax Service
The corporate version of the MyFax service offers the following features:
- an online account management system called MyFaxCentral for adding and deleting users, modifying accounts, and customizing account settings
- real-time reports that can be organized by user or department and reflect fax history, usage, and billing
- quick rollout and limited training required to use
- guaranteed 99.5% uptime
- a variety of secure access options, including VPNs, SSL, and encrypted access
- data centers that are fully redundant
- advanced security
- fax sending from Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Lotus Notes
- integration with existing systems using SMTP or XML
Corporate pricing is not listed on the site, but “quick quotes” are available via a Quick Quote application that requires specifying the company name, location, phone number, number of employees, and company revenues.
Try Before You Buy
MyFax offers a free thirty-day trial that includes all features of the paid version. The features are those of the $10/month service.