 We recently reviewed MyFax Internet fax service. Not surprising it was a good experience. MyFax has been in business for a while and also offers corporate fax services under the name Protus IP. Read on to see the full MyFax review including screen shots of the user back end. Updated 1-27-08
Sign-up - Visit MyFax 
Who is MyFAX
MyFAX is owned by ProtusIP, a Canadian company that has been around for at least 4 years. They offe both small business and large business Internet Fax services. They are a fast growing and very stable company with excellent customer service.
Sign-up is relatively easy for MyFax. They accept the following credit cards
- Visa
- Master Card
- American Express
You can choose from Local and Toll free numbers at no extra charge.
You don't choose your password during setup. MyFax will send you a welcome email with
Your fax number, User ID and a link to "click here to set your password " You must do this or you will not be able to log in. This email also shows their support information
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and their phone number un the US and UK.
The welcome mail also has a link to a 3 minute tutorial.
Visit MyFax
Log in to MyFax
MyFax askes for you Login ID. This can be one of two things
Your MyFax USER ID you got in the email or
The email you signed up with MyFax with.
Number CoverageMyFAX has very good local number coverage with most of the US covered. Note however in these days of constantly splitting area codes local numbers are not longer that important.
MyFAX offers FREE Toll Free numbers which can be a big advantage by eliminating the fear of call cost to folks sending you faxes. (please note: if you receive international faxes you MUST get a local number as Toll Free numbers do not work internationally EXCEPT for Canada.
Setup & Administration
The setup is very nicely done. It lets you set up the following items
- Up to 5 email id's that can receive the incoming faxes
- Up to 5 email id's that can send faxes from
- The default country code you will use to send faxes
- The number of days you would like to send faxes for (up to 365)
- Whether you want your faxes or JUST notifications delivered to your email (in case you only want to manage and view your faxes online at myfaxcentral
You an chage these settings at any time via the preferences on the MyFaxCentral home page.
You can also set up your default fax sizes including legal size and A4 (European)
You can manage your Fax Header settings also.
User administration is straight forward and allows you to set up different users and choose the format you want to receive faxes in PDF or TIFF NOTE! These users will cost additional monthly fees.
MyFAX Online Faxing Interface
MyFAX has just about the Best online faxing interfaces of any of hte Internet faxing services. It is very simple to use. It looks pretty much like most email clients in the market with quite a few bells and whistles to boot. Although the online faxing interface is packed with power MyFAX nicely hides the advanced feature so they don't get in the way of day to day faxing. This interface is great when you're on someone else's machine and need to get a fax or if you simply don't want to search through your emails for your faxes.
MyFAX Pricing
$10 a month for 200 received faxes and 100 sent faxes
MyFax Service Screenshots coming soon!
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