PamFax Update: Lower Rates, Volume Plans and Improved Perfomance
Send faxes via PamFax for €0.14 (a 17% reduction) or, if on a PamFax Professional or PrePaid Pack plan, as low as €0.09.
Since last summer Skype Journal has been reporting on the evolution of PamFax, which allows Skype users to send faxes anywhere worldwide from your laptop in as few as five mouse clicks. Source documents can be locally scanned hard copy or electronic documents in any of 100 file formats, including Office and PDF documents. PamFax can also act as a Windows printer. This weekend last summer's Skype Mashup Contest winner has added several new features:
- An interface for both Facebook and Salesforce.com. The Facebook interface provides your PamFax history and has a link to launch PamFax to send another fax. If you have activated a "still-in-beta" version of the Skype Toolbar for Firefox, the PamFax "Click-to-Fax" icon becomes activated. If you're a Facebook member, you can add the Facebook interface here.
In Salesforce.com, the integration goes much further: You not only have the fax history embedded in Salesforce, but you also have the ability to start a fax from any Contact, Account, User or Lead! So no more copy&paste to send a fax to one of your contacts, as PamFax starts with name and fax number prefilled and you only have to select what you want to fax and then send the fax.
- Improved startup and performance speeds. PamConsult has invested heavily in infrastructure that accelerates the startup time (probably the major feedback complaint) and also makes the entire faxing process much more responsive. To take advantage of this feature you will need to upgrade to PamFax 1.0.0.34 client, either manually from the PamFax Home page or, after next weekend once Skype has released a new version of the Skype Extras Gallery, an automatic upgrade when you launch PamFax.
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The most significant announcement this weekend is a price reduction for Pay-As-You-Go users and Premium Packs for frequent or high volume users. Highlights:
- Pay-As-You-Go: has been reduced from €0.17 to €0.14 (~US$0.221) for Zone 1 faxes with reductions to other destination zones as well.
- PamFax Professional Plan: €2.95 (~US$4.70) per month provides a 35% discount of standard page pricing, starting at €0.09 for Zone 1.
- Prepaid Packs: buy a pack and get a "per fax" discount. Starts at 10% for a €30 Pack to 40% for a €1000 Pack.
Having grown from 25,000 registered users back in April to over 52,000 users today, primarily in the U.S., U.K., Australia, Italy, Germany, Russia and France, PamFax is definitely filling a user need, especially for both the road warrior who needs to send a fax from any Internet connection and situations where hard copy needs to be exchanged instantly in a trackable manner. About 40% of users are paying via Skype credits while others are paying via PayPal or Amazon Payments.
Previous PamFax Posts:
- PamFax Receives Skype Certification, Grows Usage
- PamFax to the Rescue
- Mashup Champion PamFax Becomes a Full Fax Sending Solution
- PamFax: Sending Faxes via Skype
1US$ conversions based on current rates (€1.00 = US$1.585) and are subject to currency market changes.
Tags: PamFax, PamConsult, Skype, PayPal, Amazon Payment, Fax Service, Fax
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Regardless from the greatness of this software-plugin.... I would suggest the gentlemen of Skypejournal.com to take a look at the pricing tables of other internal fax-software solutions. www.efax.com for example. I have tried to use the pamela fax plugin. It simply did not work properly (the billing part) on top of that, it is very expensive. Take a look again at other solution, before you state that this is an affordable solution. It's not, i am sorry to say so. It's not competitive, there is no global support, it's cute but irrelevant as compared to other existing fax solutions. Maybe a big fax-company could buy up Pamela, but surely it's only a matter of time before skype starts providing fax-solutions themselves... or have the stopped "eating their own children" ?
Posted by: jan geirnaert | July 20, 2008 06:02 PM