One fax, one payment, nothing left running

This is worth understanding, because it is not a pricing fashion — it follows from what most of those services sell. A fax service that can receive faxes has to rent you a number. A number is a DID leased from a carrier, and it costs its holder money every month whether or not a single page arrives on it. Once there is a recurring cost, there has to be a recurring charge, and the outbound sending gets bundled into the plan alongside it.

Sending one fax has no recurring cost at all. The cost is a telephone call that happens once and then is over. A monthly fee attached to that is a business-model decision, not a cost being recovered — which is why a service built to send one fax can charge once and mean it.

The trade is real and worth stating plainly: you cannot receive faxes here, and there is no number that belongs to you. If you need one of those, a plan is the right product and this is not it.

• —No account, no password, no profile
• —No stored payment method
• —No credits, wallet balance or prepaid page bundle
• —No free trial with a renewal date
• —No fax number rented to you
• —No marketing email — the only messages you get are about your fax

The one thing we ask for is an email address, and it is there so the status and the transmission record have somewhere to go. There is no cancellation flow on this site because there is nothing that would use one.

Price

$4.99, charged once

Pages

Up to 30 in one transmission

Files

As many as you like, within that page count

Destinations

Any US fax number

Retries

Automatic, if the line is busy or does not answer

Cover page

Optional, generated, no extra charge

Transmission record

Included, with document hashes

Document deletion

24 hours after transmission

A document over 30 pages goes as two transmissions at $4.99 each. We would rather say that than invent an overage schedule that makes the first number a half-truth.

Pressing send places an authorization on your card — a hold, not a charge. It becomes a charge only once the receiving fax system has acknowledged every page we sent. If the transmission cannot be completed, the authorization is released and no charge is ever made.

There is no refund in that path because there is nothing to refund. You are not waiting on money to come back, because it never left. The hold disappears from your statement on your bank’s schedule, which is usually a few days.

A completed charge appears as FAXMYDOC* FAX SEND. When a fax fails sets out the reasons a transmission ends and which of them are retried first.

Come back and do it again. There is nothing to log into and nothing that remembers you, which is the point — and it is also the honest cost of this model. If you send faxes every week, a plan will eventually be cheaper than paying $4.99 each time, and you should get one.

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