These days everybody seems to be doing everything online. Of course, the most popular among the online tools is electronic mail, or e-mail. In recent years, text chat in real-time has become possible. Not long after, voice chat, then video conferencing functions have been added to the mix. Radio streaming is currently available, as well as video streaming, which makes communicating much more multi-faceted.

Online faxing is no different from actual manual faxing, except for the difference in medium. People have moved from the manual method of sending a fax through analog phone lines, to using the Internet to send a document. Even if you do your faxing online, the concept of sending a fax has not deviated from the original manual method. You will still need to have a sender, a receiver and a document or file to fax.

Faxing on the Internet utilizes the same principle as e-mail: You will need to purchase a fax server to host and regulate the sending and receiving of documents. Obviously you will need an Internet connection as well as a static IP. Just like with e-mail, you can create multiple accounts and allow multiple users within the company to use the online fax capability with just one fax server.

With Internet faxing, you no longer have to pay costly long-distance bills. You don?t even need to print out a document to be able to fax it overseas.

A fax server allows you to send a fax directly from your computer. If you need to resend the message for whatever reason, the fax server stores a copy of previously sent faxes for you to access, so you don?t have to redo your fax. The person intended to receive the fax will be able to retrieve your fax through his own fax server.