Online faxing is ideal for individuals or small businesses that only need to send faxes now and again as it can be carried out over the Internet on your computer or mobile device.  This will save you the costs of buying and maintaining any additional equipment and supplies.  Online faxing is very quick and easy and all you will need to do is set up an account with one of the online fax providers such as Popfax.com or Myfax.com.  You can then choose one of the plans available.  Most of the plans will have fax limitations, so you will be restricted to a certain amount of sent and received faxes each month, but most plans also offer introductory rates of around 5 free sent and received faxes per month, which is ideal for low level fax users and you may end up not having to actually pay for your online faxing at all under these offers.

Online faxing is very similar to email and once you have scanned the document to be faxed into the computer you can send it straight to the destination fax number through your online faxing account.  The account provider will then convert this file into digital information that can be sent over the standard telephone network, which means it can then be received by traditional fax machines, or the files will be sent directly to another online fax number.  You can also receive faxes from traditional fax machines and the account provider will convert the information from the telephone network into a digital file that you would receive like an email in your inbox.  Once of the many benefits of online faxing is that when you receive a fax in your inbox you can choose whether you want to print it off or not, which will save you a lot of paper and you can also save the file on your computer, which is ideal if you do not have a lot of office space for storing files or want to password protect the file to maintain its confidentiality.