How to send online fax

Now, you can send online fax from your computer to any fax machine in the world. There is no need to use a fax machine. There is no need to print, sign and scan the document. Now, you can embed your digital signature in the document and directly send online fax right from your computer.

Hellofax is providing this online faxing service to us. The good part is that now we can have Hellofax service as an extension in your Google chrome browser. This has made the faxing service as user friendly as email.

 

You can install the extension from http://goo.gl/aZX32. Once installed, you can see an icon in your new browser tab. Click on this icon and Hellofax will open up for you. However, to log into this application, you need a google account. If you directly go to HelloFax site, you have other options to log in.

 

 

Hellofax doesn’t need any configuration. You can directly upload your document, enter destination fax number and send across the document through the online fax.

 

What else can we do with HelloFax?

 

In one hand, using Hellofax, you can send online fax and on the other hand, you can receive fax as well. For the basic membership, the first 5 faxes are free and thereafter, it costs 99 cents/fax. You can extend the free limit to 20 by a) Sharing the page on facebook b) Importing your contacts from gmail or yahoo c) tweeting about Hellofax. Additionally, you will get 5 free fax pages for every friend you refer.

 

 

With the paid service of Hellofax, you can opt for a fax number. So, anyone can send a fax to that number. This will ultimately be stored in your Hellofax inbound documents folder. You can take a print-out anytime you want. In the premium plan, costing $7.99 per month, you can fax 500 pages per month. In the ultimate plan, the limit is 2000 Fax pages per month for a charge of $69.99 per month. Both the paid services have 30 days of trial period. The fax number is really a good feature. Just think that sitting at any part of the world, you can take a local fax number in US and hence can have a virtual paperless office in US. By the way, the local numbers are only available for US, UK and Canada.

 

You can configure other online partners like Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, EverNote, SkyDrive. You can store all your important documents in any of these services and it will allow you to send your online fax from anywhere in the world without accessing your laptop or desktop.

 

You have the option to store your digital signature. So, you can attach the same under your fax before sending it to the recipients. There are different options for using your digital signature. a) You can upload an image file having your signature b) You can create your signature through mouse c) You can type in your signature or d) take a photo of your signature and send it to sign@hellosign.com with subject line bcc8baa8.

 

You can also request someone else’s signature on the document to be faxed. Here you can pin-point, where exactly the signature is required.

 

Over all, Hellofax is an excellent idea for paperless office. It is equally useful for our personal requirements.