Friday, 28 September 2012

VoIP Business Fax Features Bestow Substantial Cost Savings

By Edson T. Balbalosa


Small businesses can get access to cost effective business fax solutions using voice over IP (VoIP) technology, instead of having to rely on expensive and bothersome fax machines. Hosted VoIP virtual PBX (private branch exchange) service providers offer business fax solutions with various handy features, with their business phone services. Sometimes called as fax over IP (FoIP), this feature offers many benefits when compared to traditional paper based fax machines.

Business fax solutions that offer FoIP technology provide a significant amount of savings over bulky fax machines. When you are a small business, investing in a pricey and complex fax machine can be out of your budget and going down to use the faxes at your local office supply store can be a drain on time and money. It is now possible for small business to easily afford online fax solutions via FoIP technology, which does not need any specific training or equipment and can make faxing much simpler.

Conventional fax machines are not only expensive to purchase, but are also costly to maintain with the need of periodic ink and toner replacements and other upkeep. It also takes a a lot of time to train employees and further time will be used up as everyone waits in line to use the machine. By using online fax solutions you can eradicate the costs associated with these machines, paper, printing and postage, which is a big plus for companies committed to going green.

This technology provides user-friendly software that allows faxes to be sent and be received in the form of email right to your desktop and entirely eliminates the tiresome, error prone, repetitive process involved in using fax machines. With the software provided by your service provider, you can do many convenient operations such as archiving, tracking, managing all faxes and easily send single or multiple faxes right from your email. The virtual PBX system is also programmable with your preferred functions and can be set to ensure delivery of inbound faxes to the right person or department. The auto-dialer can save a lot of precious time and can be programmed to send the fax at any specific time of your choosing. You can be saved from paper jams, system errors and busy signals and easily send faxes with the click of your mouse.

Fax solutions can be purchased in various packages from your virtual PBX providers depending on the specific usage requirements for your business for a low monthly fee. It is possible to choose either toll free numbers or local numbers to be employed as your regular fax number.




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