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Wouldn't it be nice to be able to have an internet fax option where you would pay per fax and not have to pay a month-to-month fee? It is an option, but perhaps not the best one at this time. Most online fax services have not met the customer's needs on this one. This is odd since this technologies has been around for a while now, and there is really a large part of the population which would really benefit from a competitively priced pay per fax plan.

Most services offer month-to-month plans for $10.00 or significantly less. For that price you usually get at least 500 combined faxes so up to 700 or more. That means that each document you send works out to price 2 cents or much less. That is actually a great price per fax. That principal problem is if you don't use all your allotted faxes. Let's say that you get 500 for $10.00 a month, but you only use 100 of them. Now the price of each fax goes up to.10 each. Still not bad, but what about that part of the population that only sends 10 or so per month. Now the cost of each one is up to $1.00. That's getting pretty pricey.

This is where a pay per fax plan would come in handy...if they could keep the price of sending the faxes down. The problem is, most services with these kinds of plans haven't carried out a very good job at keeping the expenses down. For example, one popular service charges.75 each. That is still just a little better than $1.00 a fax if I send ten a month. But if I ever have a month that I send more than 13, then I'll be spending much more than if I'd just bought the $10.00 month-to-month plan. And remember, $10.00 is just an average. Some plans are down around $7 or $8 per month.

You'll find a few other pay per fax plans out there that have cheaper per fax costs, but then they may have a small monthly fee (maybe $3 or $4) in addition to the price per fax, or they may not give you a fax number.

There may be a pay per fax plan out there that will work for you depending on your faxing needs and how several faxes you send per month. But it is surprising how little the online fax services have done to cater to this niche of the online faxing population.

References:

OnlineFaxService.com - Internet Fax Service Comparisons online faxing comparison website