Why WebFax Makes Sense

With over 100 million fax machines worldwide and 1.35 billion people having access to a fax machine, faxing documents remain a core component of all offices. Faxing is currently growing at 6.2% compound annual rate and over 400 billion minutes of faxing occur annually. With some fax accounts accounting for early 40% of total telephone expenses, why not just pay for the fax and not the phone line.

Also, how about time & effort … could this be your faxing process:

 - Walk to fax machine > 1 minute

 - Average wait > 1 minute

 - Set up transmission > 30 seconds

 - Send fax (4 page average) > 4 minutes

 - Walk back >1 minute

 - Total User Time > 7.5 minutes

WebFax eliminates many steps, thereby saving time and money. Sending a fax via WebFax:

 - Send Fax from computer > 1 minute

 - Total User Time > 1 minute

Get rid of your fax machine. Try WebFax

…focused on the needs of small businesses…

“RingCentral is focused on the needs of small businesses and mobile professionals — a market that’s been underserved by traditional carriers and hardware manufacturers,” said Vlad Shmunis, CEO of RingCentral. “With DigitalLine we’ve created the industry’s first on-demand solution that seamlessly integrates VoIP with conventional voice and fax communications. Our DigitalLine VoIP option further empowers RingCentral users to improve their professional image while staying in touch with their customers and in control of their communications.”

DigitalLine™ VoIP service

RingCentral DigitalLine VoIP service upgrades your RingCentral virtual phone system into a complete business communication solution, allowing you to place and receive calls using your broadband Internet connection. DigitalLine offers three economical plans to suit your calling needs. Whether you call a lot or just occasionally, DigitalLine will save you money over a traditional phone service.

RingCentral DigitalLine seamlessly integrates with your RingCentral virtual phone system, and enhances it with additional time-saving features. You can assign DigitalLine to any extension in your account and use answering rules to route calls to your DigitalLine phones according to day, time and Caller ID. The unified Call Log keeps track of all incoming and outgoing calls. You can answer and place DigitalLine calls from:

* RingCentral’s Call Controller with SoftPhone, which lets you answer and place calls directly from your PC, in addition to conferencing and recording calls.
* Your existing analog telephone with an ATA adapter
* A digital IP phone that connects directly to your network connection
* Any SIP-compatible device
RingCentral’s DigitalLine allows you to be even more productive and responsive to your customers while saving money.

Select your optional DigitalLine plan during the RingCentral Online registration process.
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RingCentral Completes $12 Million Funding Round, Hires New CFO

RingCentral’s services are designed to give small businesses and mobile professionals the power to intelligently and affordably manage their e-mail, phone and fax communications. To date, RingCentral has signed up 40,000 customers and that number grows by thousands each month.

“Using RingCentral, even the smallest businesses get more functionality than most large business phone systems, at a small fraction of the cost,” said Doug Leone partner at Sequoia Capital, in a statement. “With 40,000 paying customers, it’s clear this company has a winning service.”

David Weiden, partner at Khosla Ventures, described RingCentral’s approach as the next wave of SaaS.

Further strengthening its standing in the marketplace, RingCentral recently hired a new chief financial officer, Dinesh Lathi. Lathi has more than 15 years experience in the financial and operating business. Before RingCentral, Lathi served as vice president at eBay , on that company’s finance and trust & safety teams. He holds a bachelor of science degree from MIT and an MBA from Harvard.

Internet Fax

I just happened upon the Internet Fax channel sponsored by RingCentral and thought it worth passing on if for no other reason than fax seems to keep on chugging along and has if anything been revitalized by the internet. It seems the market also received a great deal of adrenaline during the housing boom as massive stores of faxes were sent from buyers to sellers to mortgage companies, etc.

As a reminder, a channel on TMCnet is a microcommunity of interest designed to educate on a certain topic. We have built over 100 of these and I continue to be amazed at the traffic levels they generate.

If you have an interest in IP fax, be sure to check the site out when you get a chance.