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Web-Based Faxing: Ringcentral Internet Fax Service Review
The naysayers have been predicting the demise of faxing technology for at least a
decade, but as it turns out, they were a little premature. Unlike email, faxes can transfer from
sender to recipient with no third parties to intervene along the way, and this makes faxing the
ideal transmission method for sensitive documents. Web-based security concerns seem only to grow
with time, so it’s a good bet that faxing is not going anywhere.
Of course, things get a little more complicated with the introduction of online faxing, which
does bring a third party into the process. With most online faxing services, it’s simple: When
sending, you upload a document to the fax company’s server, and that company forwards it through a
phone line to the recipient. With companies that offer two-way faxing, they’ll receive your faxes
for you and store them online for you to view, download, and print.
So it goes without saying that if you’re going to send and receive faxes through a third-party
company, that company needs to be trustworthy, and you need to be able to depend on them not to
drop the ball during your high-stakes business interactions.
Ringcentral Internet Fax Service
Review
The California-based Ringcentral has been getting a fair amount of buzz in the business
community. They offer a full suite of office communications services for mobile business people,
but their internet fax service is one of their centerpieces. It does allow two-way faxing; you can
upload documents to the server for Ringcentral to forward to your recipients, and you can also
receive faxes, which are stored on Ringcentral’s secure server for up to a month. The company
provides its members with a dedicated phone/fax number that can have any U.S. area code.
Ringcentral’s services exemplify what can happen when very smart people apply their
technological know-how to creating business solutions that enhance efficiency. Ten or 15 years ago,
identical services to what Ringcentral offers would have cost thousands per year. With Ringcentral,
you can get them for around $50 a month. If all you need is the faxing capabilities, it’s
$7.99.
How Ringcentral works
We’ve established that the price is pretty good, but no Ringcentral review would be complete
without delving into how exactly it’s supposed to work. One might assume that this sort of thing is
liable to get complicated, but one of the great virtues of Ringcentral is that they provide
versatile functionality while keeping things simple. Sending faxes is easy: You can send them
through email, through Microsoft applications, or by uploading documents to Ringcentral’s simple
web interface.
On the receiving side, things are just as simple. You can set it up so that your faxes go
directly to your email address, and you can receive text messages every time there’s a fax in your
inbox. Once you receive a fax, it’s stored on the server for only a month, but this is no big deal
since you can always just download faxes to your hard drive and store them permanently.
Our final verdict: If you need a service like this, there’s no reason to use any other company.
Ringcentral offers all the features you could possibly need, and they make it very easy to
customize their services to fit your unique style of doing business. It’s perfect for independent
business people, small business owners, or anyone who either doesn’t want a fax machine or is
frequently out of the office for long stretches of time.
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