Online-fax basics by John Sung Kim
Sending faxes over the internet really just means that while traditional faxes send text as images, the combination of an internet fax service such as RingCentral’s with Adobe PDF Software means that those faxes can be read as text. For law offices and other businesses where compliance and record-keeping are essential, this provides a way to not only save money on faxes but store documents and contracts as digital files.
Internet Fax Functionality
With internet-based fax, the data sent is over the internet – so faxed documents and images can be stored permanently and automatically in an email inbox or folder. What I particularly like about RingCentral’s Online Fax Service is that they’re also a virtual phone system provider. I can see a record of all the faxes ever sent or received. That alone is a big deal for any small law firm or sales team that relies on getting faxed contracts.
And if notoriously unreliable fax machines and transmissions are at best 95% successful, while internet faxing is 99.9% reliable, online faxing should eliminate the phrase, “Did you get that fax?”
Adobe Acrobat Functionality
Did I mention that online faxing saves paper and is better for the environment?
(*I should disclose here that RingCentral hired me to write for them, but we do use RingCentral in our offices as our primary PBX).