Send Free Faxes from Your Computer [ARTICLE]

If you realize you made a mistake in throwing out your fax machine, there may be an easy and free solution to your problem. It is now possible to send a fax over the Internet, without using your phone line, for no charge at all. For years, paid sites like eFax.com have charged their members an exorbitant amount to send simple faxes online. However, now you can use a couple of online websites that provide a free service to upload your file from your computer and send a fax to a dedicated phone line.

Free Faxes

Got Free Fax and Fax Zero are two websites that offer a simple, free solution to send your PDF or Word document from your computer straight to a phone line fax machine. Using the power of the Internet, you can easily upload a save file and have it transmitted online to a phone line fax machine, at no cost to you, (Fax Zero places an advertisement on the free cover page). These sites allow up to five free faxes maximum each day, and up to three pages maximum for each free fax.

Almost Free

For just a few dollars, these sites offer larger amounts of faxes (up to a maximum 30 pages), all without any attached advertisements. Paid faxes have priority delivery over free fax services, and both companies accept secure payments through PayPal. There are no monthly fees, you are only billed by the page, and they offer full technical support. Free and paid faxes can be sent to any location in the United States and Canada. International faxes are also available for an additional cost.

Document Formats

Because you will be uploading files from your computer, document formats are restricted to PDF (.pdf), Rich Tax (.rtf), Microsoft Word 97-2003 (.doc), Word 2007 (.docx) and Open Document Text (.odt). Because of the sensitive nature of some fax data, these providers provide high-level security, by only transmitting information over encrypted connections. Should you have the need to fax a signed document, simply print the document, sign it, scan it back into your computer, save the file and then upload it to the online fax company.

It is no longer necessary to have a secondary fax-dedicated phone line, or keep your existing fax machine. By using the services of Got Free Fax and Fax Zero, your company can now send a quick free, or almost free, fax down the street, or across the world.