Free Fax Service to US and Canada

If you ever have to send faxes to North America, you might be interested in this service I discovered the other day.

faxZERO is an Internet faxing service that lets you send a fax free of charge to anywhere in the USA or Canada. Here's a screen grab of the homepage...



As you might gather from this, faxZERO is simple and straightforward to use. You simply select the file you want to fax on your computer (either a .doc or .pdf file), or you can enter your own message in the 'text to fax' box.

Then it's just a matter of entering the relevant details in the boxes at the top of the screen. The most important of these, of course, is the number you are sending your fax to. You don't have to enter a fax number for yourself if you don't have one.

Once you've provided all the necessary info, click on 'Send Free Fax Now' at the foot of the screen and your fax will be sent almost instantly. You'll be told whether or not the message was sent successfully.

So what's the catch? Well, if you use the free service, an ad will be printed on the cover page of your fax. Also, you are limited to two faxes a day, and each fax cannot be more than three pages. There is also a premium service without these restrictions (and no ads) costing $1.99 per fax, payable by Paypal.

I'm not being paid to promote faxZERO - I just think it's a very handy service. It will work from anywhere in the world, although unfortunately you can only use it to send faxes to the US and Canada. I used it last week to confirm an order at an Internet store in the US (they wouldn't accept an email), and I'm happy to say it worked like a charm.