Guides and news about sending faxes and telecoms.
HR and payroll departments keep sending faxes wherever online portals don't cover everything: supplementary health insurers, income protection schemes, pension funds, temp agencies, occupational health services. Here is a map of these residual workflows and how to handle them without exposing health data or payslips.
In real estate, the fax never really went away: declarations of intent to sell filed at the town hall, exchanges with certain notarial practices, property managers and bank collections departments still ask for it. Here is the precise map of the uses that remain in 2026, what they are worth legally, and how to handle them from a browser or an email inbox.
The advertised price of a fax tells you almost nothing about what it really costs. Between line rental, consumables, staff time and failed pages, a paper fax often costs ten times more than sending online. Here is the full calculation, item by item.
A lost incoming fax can mean a medical file, a prescription or a tender bid vanishing without anyone noticing. This guide explains how to build a continuity plan for fax reception: redundant numbers, shared mailboxes, silence alerts and fallback scenarios tested twice a year.
A fax marked "sent" isn't necessarily a fax that was "received". We explain how to read a transmission report, which result codes to watch for, and how to archive your receipts so they hold up with a counterparty — or a judge.
Migrating to online fax takes a few hours; getting a six-person office to actually adopt the new tool takes considerably longer. Here is a four-week training plan, complete with written procedures, access rights and the typical mistakes of the first few days.