No-Subscription Faxing

Here's a question: how often do you send a fax? If you're like most people, the answer is "almost never." Maybe once or twice a year. Maybe once in your entire life. So why would you pay a monthly subscription for it?

The Occasional Use Problem

Faxing is overwhelmingly an occasional-use service. Nobody wakes up excited to send faxes. You send one because a doctor's office, a government agency, a bank, or a legal office requires it. It's a chore, not a lifestyle.

Yet almost every online fax service is built around monthly subscriptions:

If you send two faxes a year and pay $9.99/month for a subscription service, you're paying $119.88 for two faxes — that's nearly $60 per fax. Even if you remember to cancel after the first month, you're still paying $10 for something that should cost a fraction of that.

Who Actually Needs to Fax?

Despite predictions of its death, faxing persists because certain industries require it:

• Healthcare: Medical records, referrals, prescriptions, insurance forms
• Legal: Court filings, signed agreements, notarized documents
• Government: Tax forms, permit applications, license renewals
• Real estate: Contracts, disclosures, inspection reports
• Finance: Loan applications, account verifications, compliance documents

In almost every case, the person sending the fax is doing it because they have to, not because they want to. They're already dealing with a stressful situation — a medical issue, a legal matter, a government deadline. Adding a subscription on top of that is just insult to injury.

The Fairness Argument

Pay-per-use pricing is fundamentally fairer than subscriptions for occasional-use services. Here's why:

• You pay for what you get. Send one fax, pay for one fax. The cost reflects the actual service delivered.
• No penalty for infrequent use. Subscription models charge the same whether you use the service once or a hundred times. That's great if you use it a lot, but terrible if you don't.
• No "forgetting to cancel." There's nothing to cancel. The transaction is complete when the fax is sent.
• No pressure to use more. Subscriptions create a psychological urge to "get your money's worth." Pay-per-use eliminates that entirely.

The Simplicity Argument

Beyond fairness, pay-per-use faxing is just simpler. Consider the workflow:

With a subscription service:

1. Find a fax service
2. Create an account (email, password, verification)
3. Choose a subscription plan
4. Enter payment information
5. Upload your document
6. Send the fax
7. Set a reminder to cancel
8. Actually remember to cancel
9. Navigate the cancellation flow (often deliberately confusing)

With SimpleFax:

1. Upload your document
2. Enter the fax number
3. Pay $3.99
4. Done

Nine steps versus four. An account to manage versus nothing. A cancellation to remember versus nothing. The simplicity isn't just convenient — it's respectful of your time.

$3.99 and Done

SimpleFax charges $3.99 per fax, up to 25 pages. That's it. No subscription, no account, no tracking. Your files are deleted after sending. If the fax fails, you get a full refund.

It's the fax service that respects the fact that you have better things to do than manage another subscription.