Getting Started: eFax
Online Fax allows you to send faxes from your eFax Resource number via online interface in a browser.
- Login to your eFax control panel by visiting http://cp.serverdata.net/voice
- Use your Web Fax number as a login and its PIN as a password
- Navigate to Send a Fax tab;
Upload the document(s) you would like to fax out by either clicking the Browse button and selecting it or by dragging it from the file explorer onto this button. If you need to send multiple documents, click +Add a File button
Note: Send a Fax button allows you to upload as many as five documents or 50 pages from your computer to send as a fax message to the destination(s) of your choice.
If multiple files are uploaded, they will be combined into one fax message.
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Type in the number and/or the email you are going to send the fax to. A fax can be sent to multiple emails/numbers, separate recipient’s emails/numbers with a semicolon when filling this field
- Click Send.
Note: Webfax will attempt sending 3 times, separated with an interval of 5 minutes. If after the 3rd try, the fax is not successfully sent, it will be marked as delivery attempt unsuccessful.
Online Fax Limitations
Fax calls are very sensitive to connectivity issues and large faxes require a long and flawless connection to be established between the sender and the recipient. It is recommended to keep faxes short so they can be sent out quickly. Apart from that, Online Fax has the following limitations:
- Up to 5 documents can be sent as a fax message at one time;
- A fax can be up to 50 pages long, meaning that even if you are sending multiple documents they should sum up to 50 pages maximum;
- A fax can be sent up to 100 emails and/or numbers;
- Supported attachments are the following: .abw, .art, .arw, .avs, .bmp, .cin, .crw, .csv, .dcx, .doc, .docx, .eps, .fax, .gif, .gs, .html, .jpeg, .jpg, .key, .lwp, .numbers, .odg, .odp, .ods, .odt, .otp, .ots, .ott, .pages, .pcd, .pcx, .pdf, .png, .pps, .ppsx, .ppt, .pptx, .psd, .rtf, .sdc, .svg, .tex, .txt, .vsd, .wpd, .wps, .xls, .xlsx, .xlt.