Need some help with a better fax solution
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@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@bigbear said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dave247 said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
The last time I looked at the fact solution for my 700+ pages per day the cost was going to be in excess of $700 a month for a hosted solution.
This is why I kept it in the house onto a machine that I already owned saving to a network share but I could have just as easily sent it to an email group.
Monthly reoccurring fees are $30 for a pots line.
My machine has a printer driver that allows printing to fax. So there is no need to print something and walk to a machine.We do about 200 pages a month or so which is going to cost us about $30 per month and then it sounds like if we go over that, it's still quite cheap.
Yeah, most of those cloud-based solutions are pretty reasonable at 500 pages or less per month but my volume is so high it was completely unreasonable.
How would 2 cents a page compare? Pay as you go? That's what Twilio is charging.
That would cost me $14/day+ Three days and I’ve paid for my POTS line.
Wow that’s a lot of faxes
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@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@bigbear said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dave247 said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
The last time I looked at the fact solution for my 700+ pages per day the cost was going to be in excess of $700 a month for a hosted solution.
This is why I kept it in the house onto a machine that I already owned saving to a network share but I could have just as easily sent it to an email group.
Monthly reoccurring fees are $30 for a pots line.
My machine has a printer driver that allows printing to fax. So there is no need to print something and walk to a machine.We do about 200 pages a month or so which is going to cost us about $30 per month and then it sounds like if we go over that, it's still quite cheap.
Yeah, most of those cloud-based solutions are pretty reasonable at 500 pages or less per month but my volume is so high it was completely unreasonable.
How would 2 cents a page compare? Pay as you go? That's what Twilio is charging.
That would cost me $14/day+ Three days and I’ve paid for my POTS line.
Sorry looks like it's dropped to 1 cent per page.
But yeah that sounds like a lot of faxes. Is it medical?
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@bigbear said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@bigbear said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dave247 said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
The last time I looked at the fact solution for my 700+ pages per day the cost was going to be in excess of $700 a month for a hosted solution.
This is why I kept it in the house onto a machine that I already owned saving to a network share but I could have just as easily sent it to an email group.
Monthly reoccurring fees are $30 for a pots line.
My machine has a printer driver that allows printing to fax. So there is no need to print something and walk to a machine.We do about 200 pages a month or so which is going to cost us about $30 per month and then it sounds like if we go over that, it's still quite cheap.
Yeah, most of those cloud-based solutions are pretty reasonable at 500 pages or less per month but my volume is so high it was completely unreasonable.
How would 2 cents a page compare? Pay as you go? That's what Twilio is charging.
That would cost me $14/day+ Three days and I’ve paid for my POTS line.
Sorry looks like it's dropped to 1 cent per page.
But yeah that sounds like a lot of faxes. Is it medical?
Yep. We receive somewhere north of 600 pages a day and we probably send 500+ pages a month.
I’m house faxing on either a mopier or fax server is the only thing that makes sense for us.
Since we already have the mopiers and a network location to store them all we need is $30/pots line.
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@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@bigbear said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@bigbear said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dave247 said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
The last time I looked at the fact solution for my 700+ pages per day the cost was going to be in excess of $700 a month for a hosted solution.
This is why I kept it in the house onto a machine that I already owned saving to a network share but I could have just as easily sent it to an email group.
Monthly reoccurring fees are $30 for a pots line.
My machine has a printer driver that allows printing to fax. So there is no need to print something and walk to a machine.We do about 200 pages a month or so which is going to cost us about $30 per month and then it sounds like if we go over that, it's still quite cheap.
Yeah, most of those cloud-based solutions are pretty reasonable at 500 pages or less per month but my volume is so high it was completely unreasonable.
How would 2 cents a page compare? Pay as you go? That's what Twilio is charging.
That would cost me $14/day+ Three days and I’ve paid for my POTS line.
Sorry looks like it's dropped to 1 cent per page.
But yeah that sounds like a lot of faxes. Is it medical?
Yep. We receive somewhere north of 600 pages a day and we probably send 500+ pages a month.
I’m house faxing on either a mopier or fax server is the only thing that makes sense for us.
Since we already have the mopiers and a network location to store them all we need is $30/pots line.
Out of curiosity, how much does your faxing cost per minute with your POTS line?
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@eddiejennings said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@bigbear said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@bigbear said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dave247 said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
The last time I looked at the fact solution for my 700+ pages per day the cost was going to be in excess of $700 a month for a hosted solution.
This is why I kept it in the house onto a machine that I already owned saving to a network share but I could have just as easily sent it to an email group.
Monthly reoccurring fees are $30 for a pots line.
My machine has a printer driver that allows printing to fax. So there is no need to print something and walk to a machine.We do about 200 pages a month or so which is going to cost us about $30 per month and then it sounds like if we go over that, it's still quite cheap.
Yeah, most of those cloud-based solutions are pretty reasonable at 500 pages or less per month but my volume is so high it was completely unreasonable.
How would 2 cents a page compare? Pay as you go? That's what Twilio is charging.
That would cost me $14/day+ Three days and I’ve paid for my POTS line.
Sorry looks like it's dropped to 1 cent per page.
But yeah that sounds like a lot of faxes. Is it medical?
Yep. We receive somewhere north of 600 pages a day and we probably send 500+ pages a month.
I’m house faxing on either a mopier or fax server is the only thing that makes sense for us.
Since we already have the mopiers and a network location to store them all we need is $30/pots line.
Out of curiosity, how much does your faxing cost per minute with your POTS line?
There is no per min cost. It’s $30 a month flat. Presumably I could keep it going 24/7 and still only pay $30/month
As it is, it’s running 6+ hour M-F.
We do actually have two pots lines to allow fast incoming faxes (ie two at once) and the occasional outgoing.
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@eddiejennings said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@bigbear said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@bigbear said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dave247 said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
The last time I looked at the fact solution for my 700+ pages per day the cost was going to be in excess of $700 a month for a hosted solution.
This is why I kept it in the house onto a machine that I already owned saving to a network share but I could have just as easily sent it to an email group.
Monthly reoccurring fees are $30 for a pots line.
My machine has a printer driver that allows printing to fax. So there is no need to print something and walk to a machine.We do about 200 pages a month or so which is going to cost us about $30 per month and then it sounds like if we go over that, it's still quite cheap.
Yeah, most of those cloud-based solutions are pretty reasonable at 500 pages or less per month but my volume is so high it was completely unreasonable.
How would 2 cents a page compare? Pay as you go? That's what Twilio is charging.
That would cost me $14/day+ Three days and I’ve paid for my POTS line.
Sorry looks like it's dropped to 1 cent per page.
But yeah that sounds like a lot of faxes. Is it medical?
Yep. We receive somewhere north of 600 pages a day and we probably send 500+ pages a month.
I’m house faxing on either a mopier or fax server is the only thing that makes sense for us.
Since we already have the mopiers and a network location to store them all we need is $30/pots line.
Out of curiosity, how much does your faxing cost per minute with your POTS line?
I also realize I could do some math for you 600 min x 22 days = 13,200 mins + 500 mins outgoing minimum. Just call it 14,000 mins.
So $30/14,000 = .214 cents a min
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@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@eddiejennings said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@bigbear said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@bigbear said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dave247 said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
The last time I looked at the fact solution for my 700+ pages per day the cost was going to be in excess of $700 a month for a hosted solution.
This is why I kept it in the house onto a machine that I already owned saving to a network share but I could have just as easily sent it to an email group.
Monthly reoccurring fees are $30 for a pots line.
My machine has a printer driver that allows printing to fax. So there is no need to print something and walk to a machine.We do about 200 pages a month or so which is going to cost us about $30 per month and then it sounds like if we go over that, it's still quite cheap.
Yeah, most of those cloud-based solutions are pretty reasonable at 500 pages or less per month but my volume is so high it was completely unreasonable.
How would 2 cents a page compare? Pay as you go? That's what Twilio is charging.
That would cost me $14/day+ Three days and I’ve paid for my POTS line.
Sorry looks like it's dropped to 1 cent per page.
But yeah that sounds like a lot of faxes. Is it medical?
Yep. We receive somewhere north of 600 pages a day and we probably send 500+ pages a month.
I’m house faxing on either a mopier or fax server is the only thing that makes sense for us.
Since we already have the mopiers and a network location to store them all we need is $30/pots line.
Out of curiosity, how much does your faxing cost per minute with your POTS line?
I also realize I could do some math for you 600 min x 22 days = 13,200 mins + 500 mins outgoing minimum. Just call it 14,000 mins.
So $30/14,000 = .214 cents a min
Ha! Your telco probably uses your account as an example of How-Not-To-Sell-A-Contract during sales training
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@eddiejennings said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@eddiejennings said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@bigbear said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@bigbear said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dave247 said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
The last time I looked at the fact solution for my 700+ pages per day the cost was going to be in excess of $700 a month for a hosted solution.
This is why I kept it in the house onto a machine that I already owned saving to a network share but I could have just as easily sent it to an email group.
Monthly reoccurring fees are $30 for a pots line.
My machine has a printer driver that allows printing to fax. So there is no need to print something and walk to a machine.We do about 200 pages a month or so which is going to cost us about $30 per month and then it sounds like if we go over that, it's still quite cheap.
Yeah, most of those cloud-based solutions are pretty reasonable at 500 pages or less per month but my volume is so high it was completely unreasonable.
How would 2 cents a page compare? Pay as you go? That's what Twilio is charging.
That would cost me $14/day+ Three days and I’ve paid for my POTS line.
Sorry looks like it's dropped to 1 cent per page.
But yeah that sounds like a lot of faxes. Is it medical?
Yep. We receive somewhere north of 600 pages a day and we probably send 500+ pages a month.
I’m house faxing on either a mopier or fax server is the only thing that makes sense for us.
Since we already have the mopiers and a network location to store them all we need is $30/pots line.
Out of curiosity, how much does your faxing cost per minute with your POTS line?
I also realize I could do some math for you 600 min x 22 days = 13,200 mins + 500 mins outgoing minimum. Just call it 14,000 mins.
So $30/14,000 = .214 cents a min
Ha! Your telco probably uses your account as an example of How-Not-To-Sell-A-Contract during sales training
Think about when you used to do dial up internet.
My usage was as least this usually a lot more. -
@eddiejennings said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@eddiejennings said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@bigbear said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@bigbear said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dave247 said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
The last time I looked at the fact solution for my 700+ pages per day the cost was going to be in excess of $700 a month for a hosted solution.
This is why I kept it in the house onto a machine that I already owned saving to a network share but I could have just as easily sent it to an email group.
Monthly reoccurring fees are $30 for a pots line.
My machine has a printer driver that allows printing to fax. So there is no need to print something and walk to a machine.We do about 200 pages a month or so which is going to cost us about $30 per month and then it sounds like if we go over that, it's still quite cheap.
Yeah, most of those cloud-based solutions are pretty reasonable at 500 pages or less per month but my volume is so high it was completely unreasonable.
How would 2 cents a page compare? Pay as you go? That's what Twilio is charging.
That would cost me $14/day+ Three days and I’ve paid for my POTS line.
Sorry looks like it's dropped to 1 cent per page.
But yeah that sounds like a lot of faxes. Is it medical?
Yep. We receive somewhere north of 600 pages a day and we probably send 500+ pages a month.
I’m house faxing on either a mopier or fax server is the only thing that makes sense for us.
Since we already have the mopiers and a network location to store them all we need is $30/pots line.
Out of curiosity, how much does your faxing cost per minute with your POTS line?
I also realize I could do some math for you 600 min x 22 days = 13,200 mins + 500 mins outgoing minimum. Just call it 14,000 mins.
So $30/14,000 = .214 cents a min
Ha! Your telco probably uses your account as an example of How-Not-To-Sell-A-Contract during sales training
It's a little different when you own the copper in ground. VoIP is all about paying for port access at the interconnect and then brokering off those points at wholesale (6/6) minutes.
With a PRI/BRI it would've been metered.
.0021 is prime wholesale pricing for a CLEC. But that would be with T38. So the per page cost of 1 penny is a whole different apples to oranges thing.
So 700 pages a day is still $7 times 22 is $144 with Twilio per month. A lot better than $700. That vs 2 $30 lines plus tax, now only 200% more expensive. Lol
But you could do some things with the API to make sending and receiving a better workflow.
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@bigbear said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@eddiejennings said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
But you could do some things with the API to make sending and receiving a better workflow.such as?
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@dashrender said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@bigbear said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
@eddiejennings said in Need some help with a better fax solution:
But you could do some things with the API to make sending and receiving a better workflow.such as?
Lol IDK... Working from no info about your workflow, but assuming people are walking to a fax machine to send big faxes you could make a small app or process to suit your needs.
But if you're using a fax server, IDK
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