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RingCentral Review: Internet Fax |
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| Low-cost yearly plan with 6-month discount, nice tools; a little finicky with emails | |
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[Editor's note: RingCentral is offering NextAdvisor visitors 20% off the first 6 months of service on either the monthly or already-discounted annual plan. No coupon code is necessary, just follow any of the links from NextAdvisor to RingCentral]
Setup Setting up an account with RingCentral is rather easy. You are given several options for toll-free numbers to choose from. Once that's done, you can download the RingCentral Call Controller, but it's not really necessary. The real work is done using a web-based interface, the stand-alone fax program, or your email client. User Interface The RingCentral Internet Fax program is RingCentral's strong point, and the true differentiator for this service. You can use the program to not only send your faxes, but sign and mark them up. Not everyone will need this, in fact those with the full paid version of Adobe Acrobat may find it somewhat redundant. The online interface is fine. It lets you send and receive faxes, as well as administer a block list. The inbox is a crowded affair, however, and gives you a bit too much info. RingCentral does much better with attachments than it does with faxes that are composed directly in emails. In our testing, Ring Central had some of the slowest transmission times, taking an average of 2 minutes 17 seconds to send (the fastest was Fax87, with 1 minute 1 second). It's receiving time was similar, taking an average of 2 minutes 13 seconds for us to see a fax in our inbox. Again, these times should not make much of a difference for most users. Pricing RingCentral is cheap, only $7.99 per month for 500 total inbound and outbound pages, if you sign up for a year. A 20% introductory discount brings the first six months down to $6.39. Like most internet fax providers, RingCentral assumes one page takes a minute to fax, so a particularly graphics-heavy page may end up taking more than one minute, and therefore be counted as more than one page. If you want to pay month-by-month, the cost goes up to $9.99, still pretty cheap. Additional faxes are only 5.9 cents, rather low compared to other Internet fax services. Conclusion If you need the fax tools, particularly the signature and markup capabilities, you'll be choosing RingCentral or efax. RingCentral is certainly the cheaper option, and a 30-day free trial will give you a chance to see if it's a good choice for you. |
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| Annual Plan Price: | $6.39/mo for 6 mos $7.99/mo thereafter |
| Free Trial: | 30-day free trial |
| Pages Included: | 500 combined receive and send per month |
| Additional Pages: | 5.9¢ per page |
| Send/Receive Times: | 2m 13s receive; 2m 17s send |
| Toll Free Number: | Free |
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