How To Send AND Receive Faxes ...For FREE From Your Computer!

First, Why Online Faxing Services Aren't Perfect

The catch: None of them permits free faxing both ways.

Either you can send for free or you can receive for free, but not both.

Good news!... Lee Seats at Freebies.about.com has done his homework and found the best options for sending AND receiving faxes... for FREE!

Best FREE Online Faxing Services

"All you need to do is use two free services, one to send your faxes and another to receive faxes."

--Lee Seats

To RECEIVE incoming faxes without a fax machine... use eFax. I've used it for years. It's simple and very quick.

When you sign-up for eFax (for FREE), you get your own "fax number". The area code for your fax number will most likely not be the area code for where you live, but it doesn't really matter since most businesses & individuals don't think twice about sending a fax long-distance.

Then, whenever someone sends you a fax, it arrives in your inbox as an e-mail attachment!

The best thing about eFax:

• It's completely FREE
  
• There's no limit to the number of incoming faxes you can receive
  
• It shows up in your e-mail, which you already check regularly anyway
  
• There's no need for a separate phone line just for faxing
  
• There are no "busy signals"
  
• You can now organize all your faxes online
  
• It works instantly, seconds after you sign-up
  

(If you would like a local or toll-free fax number and/or the ability to send and receive faxes all in one place, you could sign-up for eFax Plus. You can try a FREE 30-day trial of eFax Plus.)

Lee actually prefers to use FaxDigits (also FREE) for receiving faxes. When you use FaxDigits, faxes that others send you appear as a .pdf file in your email inbox. Like with eFax, there is no limit on the number of FREE faxes you can receive.

To SEND outgoing faxes without a fax machine... use FaxZero.

"FaxZero allows you to send a limited number of short faxes for free. At this writing you can send two faxes per day of up to three pages each. It may not be high volume, but it can come in handy when you need to get few pages faxed out. The free faxes have an advertisement on the cover page. There is no registration required and you can send faxes for free to anywhere in the US and Canada."

--Lee Seats

I actually haven't tried FaxZero yet, but I look forward to trying it the next time I have to send a fax.

NOTE: One nice thing about these FREE online faxing services is that it doesn't take long to sign up and start sending or receiving faxes. We're talking a matter of minutes... so the next time you have to send or receive a fax, have no fear. Just sign up & go, without a lot of headache!

[Thanks again, Lee!]