Did you know
that you can use Google as a platform to send and receive digital faxes? Thanks
to email fax services, we can now link our Gmail addresses to virtual fax
number, making faxing not only faster but also more cost efficient. The best thing about Google fax is that you
can get started for free!
When people
think about free online fax, they often think of restricted services that let
you send a couple of pages of fax per day.
These services work fine if you just want to send the occasional fax,
but for those of us who work with fax documents constantly it just isn’t
enough. Well friends, those pages are
not the only way to fax online free of costs, there’s a better way: taking advantage
of free trials.
Google fax
services such as RingCentral, eFax, MyFax and others offer you the chance of
trying them out for free for 30 days.
Here’s how you can get started in just a few minutes.
- Have your Gmail account ready. It is recommended that you create an entirely new account destined to the transmission of faxes. Gmail addresses are free to create, just be sure to keep a mobile phone at hand to confirm your identity.
- Create a free trial account with a fax service. If you don’t know where to start, here’s a good guide with the best Google fax free trials on the Web. You can try as many companies as you like, which is a great way to compare them side by side and determine which one provides the most benefits to your company.
- At the moment of signing up, add
your Gmail address to your fax account and choose what type of virtual fax
number you’d like to opt for: local or toll-free. The choice is entirely up to you and what you
need from the service.
That’s it! After
you finish signing up with a service, your account will be set up and you will
be able to send and receive faxes with Gmail.
This is a very easy process; as a matter of fact sending Google fax is
just as easy as sending a common email, but the actual document is attached to
the message. You can attach a wide variety of file types, including PDFs,
images, and text documents.
Now that
you can send Gmail fax, you can also access your account anywhere using your
smartphone. The top fax companies in the
field have developed mobile apps, that lets you access all incoming faxes
stored in your Gmail account. And with just a few taps and the camera of your
phone, you can also compose and send faxes!
