eXtremeFax Review
Pros:
- Save 43% when you pay for a year in advance
- Excellent value
- 30-day free trial period
- Offers local fax numbers in 49 states
- Online fax storage for an unlimited period (up to 200 messages)
- Unlimited email addresses can send faxes and 30 email addresses can receive faxes
- Low overage rates
- 24/7 phone customer support
Cons:
- At the time of our most recent review, there were no notable cons.
Conclusion:
eXtremeFax is an excellent online fax service for the price. eXtremeFax has local fax numbers in 49 states. eXtremeFax offers (800) numbers for a $15 one-time charge and (866), (877), and (888) numbers for free. Sending and receiving faxes with eXtremeFax is easy, and faxes are of high quality. eXtremeFax's customer support team is knowledgeable. eXtremeFax has a 30-day free trial.
*Note: eXtremeFax uses the same fax technology as RingCentral and has better pricing and lower overage page rates. If you've signed up for a free trial before with either eXtremeFax or RingCentral, you can't receive a free trial with the other service.
Fax Number Options
eXtremeFax offers local numbers in 49 states. When choosing your local number, you may select by both area code and city. They also offer (800) toll-free numbers are available for a $15 charge, but (866), (877), and (888) numbers may be obtained for no extra fee. In addition, eXtremeFax will port a number for free.
Sending and Receiving Faxes
eXtremeFax displays both high quality text and high quality image faxes. You can attach an unlimited number of documents to be faxed at once as long as each document is less than 5MB. eXtremeFax will allow you to send your fax to an unlimited number of recipients. You aren't able to preview your fax before you send it. eXtremeFax lets you schedule delivery of your faxes for a later time. 200 faxes may be stored online for an unlimited period of time compared to 30 days of online fax storage, which is typical of many services we've reviewed. eXtremeFax will allow you to create a blocked/allowed phone call list so that your account isn’t charged for blocked faxes. eXtremeFax is Mac-compatible. You can send a fax from an unlimited number of email addresses with eXtremeFax, and you can receive faxes on 30 email addresses.
Pricing
eXtremeFax charges $6.99 per month to send or receive up to 600 combined pages. This comes out to less than two cents per page, which far exceeds the rates offered by many of its competitors. You can also pay $47.88 per year for an annual savings of 43%. This comes out to $3.99 per month. eXtremeFax charges five cents per page on sent or received pages above your monthly allotment. This overage charge is cheaper than the typical overage rates of 10 cents per page. eXtremeFax offers a free trial period of 30 days.
Customer Support
eXtremeFax offers phone, email, and FAQs for customer support. Phone support is available 24/7. During testing, we experienced no wait times when connecting to a phone representative, and we found the customer support reps to be knowledgeable.
| eXtremeFax's Features | |
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Reviewed Plan |
eXtremeFax 600 |
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Monthly Fee |
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Annual Prepayment Discount |
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Start Up Fee |
$0.00 |
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"Receive" Pages Included |
600 Total |
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"Send" Pages Included |
Combined |
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Hidden Fees |
No |
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Free Trial Period |
30 Days |
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Overage Pages |
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Online Fax Storage |
Unlimited |
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Send & Receive Faxes by Email |
Yes |
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Phone Customer Support |
24/7 |
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Number of States Available |
49 and D.C. |
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800 Number |
Yes |
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866, 877 or 888 Number |
Yes |
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Number of Documents Allowed |
Unlimited |
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Number of Recipients Allowed |
Unlimited |
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Preview a Fax |
No |
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Schedule a Delivery |
Yes |
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Auto Resend |
No |
