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Ask HN: What are the current best options for faxing?

6 points by gnaritas ↗ HN
I'm looking to get rid of our in-house fax server and just use some service to fulfill our faxing needs but we send a lot of faxes, mostly bills to clients or reservations for rooms. Can anyone recommend reliable providers for a good price? Anything that beats eFax's 10 cents a page?

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vinced
phaxio.com 7cents a page. Full api.

Faxing is pretty expensive and we kept our in-house service as we receive well over 1000 pages per day. We're running Hylafax+ with iaxmodems (separate server) connected to our Asterisk based PBX. Soon the fax server and pbx will be running as virtual machines.

We've never been able to find a fax service that is reasonable for our volume.

gnaritas
That's not bad, thanks, I'll look into it. Our main issue is we've gone to a work from home model and there aren't any techs at the office to handle any potential issues with an in-house server and this has become a problem.
sga
Can't attest to anything about this company but I remember reading about it here on HN: http://www.hellofax.com
aonic
I love using HelloFax for signing and filling out documents. "Faxing" to email is free
tdfx
I've had a great experience with them so far. I'm on their smallest plan, $4.99 (50 pages sent/received months, I think?), and I get my own local number. Admittedly I don't send many faxes, but when I've needed to send or receive them the service has been great. The document editing tools are awesome, as well.
massarog
Go digital, stop faxing out things and you'll save a ton of money :)