FaxZero Review: Limited, But Still Free Fax Sending
In testing out my Ooma, I used the free fax website FaxZero.com to send a fax over to myself. I thought I’d share a quick review.
- The free service has certain restrictions. You must have it converted to Word/PDF format, up to 2 faxes a day, and a maximum of 3 pages (6 pages total a day).
- There is an ad on the provided cover page, but thankfully it is just a simple FaxZero ad and not some random company. Here is a scan of what it looks like.
- You must provide a working e-mail address, as you need to click on a confirmation links sent via e-mail to send your fax. Some users report increased spam, so be careful which e-mail you use.
- The fax is not sent immediately. It says it might take anywhere from 5-30 minutes depending on how busy they are. It took about 5 minutes for me for my fax to ring.
- The fax did come through successfully, and the quality was acceptable.
- You do get a confirmation e-mail with the subject “Your fax to XXX has been sent successfully”.
Overall, I have no complaints about FaxZero since it was a free service that performed as promised. However, I did find a better free fax alternative recently at Box.net, which I hope sticks around for a while. See my Box.net Free Fax review.
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December 11th, 2009 at 6:52 am
This is what I used when I needed to do a random fax a couple of months ago. Worked out for me too.
December 11th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Thanks for posting the scan of the cover page, I’ve been using this service for a while now and have been wondering what the cover page looked like.
December 30th, 2009 at 11:18 am
GotFreeFax.com also allows user to send free fax online to the US and Canada. User can either upload a PDF/Word file or enter text to fax. Plus, it does NOT add Ads to user’s fax and is suitable for faxing formal documents.
February 11th, 2010 at 12:18 pm
does anyone knows if I can send a fax to PR also? or is just to the continental US, thanks.
May 28th, 2010 at 12:29 pm
yes, you can fax to PR.
June 13th, 2010 at 1:01 am
I can I fax the U.S. from Thaialnd?
September 17th, 2010 at 2:14 pm
I sent a fax but never received any confirmation, email or otherwise. I have no idea whether my fax was sent.
February 21st, 2011 at 10:14 am
@ Ron, it was likely that the confirmation went to your spam folder. That is, if you entered a valid email address before sending the fax.
I just used it and was successful…definitely beats going all the way to Office Max just to fax one page!
April 25th, 2011 at 9:11 pm
I just used the premium FaxZero service for $2 and only half my fax was received.
Contacted them and they said it wasn’t a problem with their side so no refund or free second attempt.
Very disappointing.
July 5th, 2011 at 1:14 pm
Very lame! I tried to use it for an international fax, and got charged the full amount even though the fax failed. They said it failed because the number was invalid, but it wasn’t. Don’t use it for international faxes, they don’t seem to know how to handle those!
October 7th, 2011 at 2:21 am
Terrible Fax service ever,
I’ve used Faxzero to send two files to my school office, both documents were received black and white and totally messed up. They sent me a letter back with the faxed pages, and now I’m going to mail them instead of using faxing.