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

[gnaritas]

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?

[sga]

Can't attest to anything about this company but I remember reading about it here on HN: http://www.hellofax.com

[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.

[aonic]

I love using HelloFax for signing and filling out documents. "Faxing" to email is free

[gnaritas]

Their largest plan is 2000 faxes a month, I do that in a few days.

[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.

[massarog]

Go digital, stop faxing out things and you'll save a ton of money :)