Fax To Email

If you receive faxes but perhaps cannot justify the running costs or want to save money on your current setup, then Fax To Email could be for you. Crosby offers a fax service that can receive faxes and send them as an email to you. When you receive the email, the fax it attached in either a .TIFF format or .PDF format based on your choice, and faxes can be opened, viewed and printed just like any other documents. Best of all, you choose which faxes you want to print. Fax to email saves you time and money, and here’s why:

  • Have your faxes stored electronically
  • Receive faxes from your office by email whilst you are on the road
  • Forward your faxes from your email, your mobile devices or other to work colleagues for clients
  • Cheaper to use your regular printer than buying fax rolls or paper/ink
  • No electricity usage, saving and reducing your energy usage/carbon footprint
  • Crosby’s service can store your faxes for up to 6 years online and are searchable and downloadable at any time
  • Ability to fax people straight from your desktop
  • Optionally, store faxes to be later retrieved by calling in from another fax anywhere in the world (like a hotel for example)

Crosby offers 3 forms of fax to email. Depending on your requirements, please see below:

  • Crosby offers a free service that gives you a fax number without any charges at all. See www.freefaxtoemail.net
  • Crosby offer its Crosby Fax as a paid for professional service with many advanced features. See www.crosbyfax.co.uk
  • Crosby offer a bespoke fax solution. Tell us your requirements and we will build a system to suit

Why still use fax?

Many people might say fax is dying and just use email and, in fact, in some areas, that is correct. However, there are still regular uses for fax and it still comes in handy for certain types of applications, either to work alongside email or as a backup technology in case broadband/internet connections fail.

One of Crosby’s clients is a large pizza chain within the UK and has a lot of stores dotted around the country with computer systems linking to their website, so when customers order on-line, it communicates with each shop and the pizza is made and delivered. This is great, but with all of the shops being connected by broadband, if the broadband failed and each shop lost its internet connection, then what?

Crosby’s client has a fax solution that works alongside its website as a backup and should a store go off-line, it automatically begins to fax to each store each order. Crosby’s system tracks each fax receipt and links it up with the order to ensure it’s delivered correctly. The result is a solution that gives redundancy for the client