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Re: Show HN: Send a fax to 50 countries, no signup, account or subscription required

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We currently don’t offer subscriptions, as were just starting out. Out of curiosity what’s your use case? There are lots of subscription fax services out there (efax and hellofax are 2 popular ones)

Faxing medical documents.

We unfortunately aren't big enough (yet!) to provide HIPAA-compliance: the cost is quite high for the volumes we're sending right now. Send us an email at team@faxrocket.com: happy to talk about other options.

Re: Show HN: Send a fax to 50 countries, no signup, account or subscription required

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Where is the list of 50 countries? The link doesn't seem to work for me.

The list, as requested: https://www.faxrocket.com/faq.html#!/displaycountries (not sure if HN will include the hash, but the FAQ page has that information).

Re: Show HN: Send a fax to 50 countries, no signup, account or subscription required

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J2?

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jayson-demers/is-google-compl... > J2 Global operates numerous, nearly identical websites such as eFax.com, RapidFax.com, MyFax.com, MetroFax.com, SmartFax.com and Fax.com that all offer the same internet fax services. As a result, J2 effectively controls over 90% of the internet fax market. > ... the methodology of litigation that J2 employs has allowed for them to sue any competitors…

As a note because it's not clear from searches, the "Integrated Global Concepts" in that article owned Maxemail.com, which was taken over by J2 in late 2016.

Re: Show HN: Send a fax to 50 countries, no signup, account or subscription required

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How does your company manage to use Stripe and Paypal for microtransactions with their fees? Do you get a special discount? 25 cents - minus fees means there's barely any left.

I'm not sure about the answer to your question about different fees for microtransactions, but with their pricing, you would never get charged 25 cents. The minimum charge is $1.

The first four pages are $1, which I'm assuming is partly to cover that issue of their charge getting eaten up by payment fees.

Re: Show HN: Send a fax to 50 countries, no signup, account or subscription required

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post #45

How does your company manage to use Stripe and Paypal for microtransactions with their fees? Do you get a special discount? 25 cents - minus fees means there's barely any left.

I'm not sure about the answer to your question about different fees for microtransactions, but with their pricing, you would never get charged 25 cents. The minimum charge is $1. The first four pages are $1, which I'm assuming is partly to cover that issue of their charge getting eaten up by payment fees.

This is correct.

The top payment processors all have a fixed component to their fees - we just absorb it into our pricing structure.

Re: Show HN: Send a fax to 50 countries, no signup, account or subscription required

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post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure about the answer to your question about different fees for microtransactions, but with their pricing, you would never get charged 25 cents. The minimum charge is $1. The first four pages are $1, which I'm assuming is partly to cover that issue of their charge getting eaten up by payment fees.

This is correct. The top payment processors all have a fixed component to their fees - we just absorb it into our pricing structure.

The transaction fee for $1 is still a lot. For example, in Stripe's case it would be 2.9% + 30¢ so about 33 cents. I guess if that's an acceptable margin, it's no big deal, but I was just curious if your company got discounted fees.

Re: Show HN: Send a fax to 50 countries, no signup, account or subscription required

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post #38
post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We currently don’t offer subscriptions, as were just starting out. Out of curiosity what’s your use case? There are lots of subscription fax services out there (efax and hellofax are 2 popular ones)

Faxing medical documents.

SRFax lists healthcare solutions on its site, and Faxage says "All of our fax service plans come with HIPAA compliance standard - No need for a 'special' plan or to pay extra for HIPAA related security features" and you can contact them for a BAA.

Other than that you can do things in-house with Hylafax and either hardware (e.g. Mainpine boards, expensive but they Just Work) or software solutions. My experience with software solutions (IAXModem with Hylafax and Asterisk) has been that speeds and reliability are sometimes poor, at least compared to good hardware solutions or physical fax machines supporting 33.6k.

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