RingCentral.com
Stop complaining about clunky old fax machines, they are just a thing of the past, now with RingCentral you can send and receive faxes online securely with a very low price as you want.
RingCentral offers one of the lowest priced web based fax options, and it has the lowest over the page limit fees available than the other online fax services we reviewed. There is no surprise that we all expect a low fax bill no matter how much our business fluctuates.
Set the Fax300 plan as an example, RingCentral’s lowest priced option which supports up to 300 faxes per month total, shared pages, send or receive. This low price package only costs $7.99 per month and it includes all of the same features as their higher priced packages, only the over page fee is a penny or two more. Does that sound cool?
With RingCentral, you can send faxes via their online website, through a handy desktop tool or from Outlook and other applications. It can automatically pull fax numbers from your Outlook or Outlook Express contact lists and you can send all kinds of attachments from Word files to image files. What a fantastic service!
Standout Features
- Offers the lowest over limit per page fees
- Can send from Microsoft Windows applications, including Outlook
- Has the ability to send over 50 different file types as attachments
- Supports local and toll-free numbers and can receive from any fax machine on the planet
- You can send and receive faxes through this service using a Mac computer
- Includes an easy to use and convenient desktop call controller that can manage faxes as well as many of RingCentrals other services
RingCentral.com really has many great features and can do everything. With this service, you can send and receive faxes through their desktop interface or through their online service. we particularly like its interface and desktop tool, and we are thrilled to see how quickly we set it up to work with our Outlook account.
Through the handy desktop tool you can view your incoming faxes, access your account, synchronize contacts, send faxes and more if you subscribe to RingCentral’s call services. As far as attachments go, this service supports over 50 different file types including all Word 2007 types, xml and html types, image files including PSDs and even csv files and mcw for Macs.
Its only shortcoming is that it only stores messages for 30 days online, which in minor. However, you can save the messages as long as you want on your desktop, so this really doesn’t matter too much.
This service supports toll-free and local numbers or you can add a vanity number for a small fee. It can receive faxes from any fax machine or fax service in the worldt.
When it comes to security, all messages are sent over a secure connection and faxes are stored in a password protected account. They also offer great spam fax protection and filters, you can block or allow specific numbers or area codes, you can also set a variety of other blocks such as “Block fax messages without Caller ID.”
Ease of Use:
RingCentral.com was surprising simple to use, the online interface is clean, straightforward and surprisingly uncomplicated.
When we sent our first fax with a cover page, we had the desktop interface installed and the service synced with our Outlook quickly and literally within minutes, the speed is really very fast. While you use RingCentral, you just should be able to sign up, install the interface (or not, it is not required) and have your first fax sent out within minutes. Certainly, if you still don't know how to use it, you can consult with the help pages to use this service. Moreover, we found it is easy to set our preferences, such as our notifications and allow/block preferences.
Customer Service:RingCentral.com offers all of the support services as the except 24/7 support. Otherwise, they post FAQS, an entire user manual, a searchable knowledgebase, training videos and much more online. You can also contact RingCentral by email or telephone, toll for totally free. The 24/7 support is very friendly and nice.
As mentioned above, this service has the lowest over page fee offered, as low as 3.9 cents per page for their Fax2500 plan. What you should keep in mind though is that the over page fee is assuming a one minute or less transfer time. Additionally, RingCentral offers three different page limit packages, from 300 to 2500 pages and they also do not charge a set up fee.
Summary:RingCentral offers the lowest over page fees and some of the best priced packages. They are also extremely convenient to use with online or desktop account access as well as email and cell phone notifications. We really cannot think of anything this service lacks when compared to the competition.
We actually enjoyed reviewing RingCentral service. We first compared it to other online fax services a few years back, it is really could see the value of this type of service right a way. We were pleased to see a service like RingCentral embracing the possibilities of online communications, it really is a very wonderful Internet fax software and very worthy to have a try!