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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    eFax Corporate

    Score6.9 out of 10
    N/AeFax is an encrypted cloud-based fax service that allows users to send, receive, and edit faxes online, from email, or from a mobile application. It provides users with a unique fax number attached to their email address, thereby avoiding the need to use a fax machine or print incoming faxes.N/A

    Sangoma Asterisk

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AAsterisk is an open source toolkit for building communications applications, now owned and supported by Sangoma (acquired with Digium in 2018). Most Asterisk-based systems and solutions require additional components (e.g. IP-phones, VoIP gateways or telephony interface cards, and other hardware), and expertise.N/A
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    Community Pulse
    eFax CorporateSangoma Asterisk
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    Consensus Cloud Solutions
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    91%
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    Happy with the feature set
    92%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    88%
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    Implementation went as expected
    89%
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    User Ratings
    eFax CorporateSangoma Asterisk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (17 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
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    Support Rating
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    eFax CorporateSangoma Asterisk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Consensus Cloud Solutions
    For the daily faxing needs, eFax gets the job done. We get notified when the fax has been received or sent successfully, but it takes so long at times. I'm not sure if it's eFax's encryption system that is delaying the Rx/Tx time, but it needs to be improved immediately.
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    Sangoma
    Digium Asterisk is well suited for a city government as a communications solution for internal and external use. Other options like PBX are more expensive and hard to escalate. VoIP makes it easier to use the communications infrastructure instead that already exists rather than having to wire every phone when the solution is a digital or analog phone. In my city, government offices are not in the same place, which makes it harder to communicate everything together.
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    Pros
    Consensus Cloud Solutions
    • The fax always goes through, there are no issues with reliability.
    • It offers a variety of features such as taking photos and saving files.
    • It can receive faxes too.
    • It can save faxes for a long time and allows you to save contacts.
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    Sangoma
    • Easy communication and configuration with many soft phone and hard phone models
    • A great community that helps the software have more and more functionality
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    Cons
    Consensus Cloud Solutions
    • The user interface could use some work, as it's a little dated looking, and it's not so simple to receive faxes, at times.
    • Administrator functions. If the user's account is locked for any reason, the administrator cannot unlock their account. It causes a lot of inconveniences.
    • Unable to see the bill. For whatever reason, eFax does not allow viewing the bill from the online portal.
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    Sangoma
    • Transferring to a Voicemail is particularly hard to do, and calls tend to drop when transferring.
    • I would like a different interface; the current one feels clumsy
    • Over the weekend, it logs you out, and you have to remember your password or reset it to gain access.
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    Usability
    Consensus Cloud Solutions
    For our logistics side of the business, we use eFax to receive orders. We are using it to transmit a variety of documents as well. It comes in handy if you really need to accept faxes.
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    Sangoma
    User friendly. Very little training to use it
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    Support Rating
    Consensus Cloud Solutions
    eFax support is great. They are quick to assist you with any issue regarding eFax. I haven't had to wait long on support services or answers. During an outage seems to be when the queue times get long but on a normal day, they are quick to answer and fast on a solution.
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    Sangoma
    I have asked in the not so recent past about having my phone updated with my saved Digium "favorites" list but it doesn't seem that this is possible
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    Consensus Cloud Solutions
    eFax is for serious business professionals and it comes with so many tools, including a free App and a desktop app, which makes it extremely easy for you and your employees to send and receive faxes. You can take a photo of a document and fax it over to someone in another state in a few minutes!
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    Sangoma
    Recently I've been using Vonage Business, and while it is far more expensive and a lot less configurable than Digium, the mobility is essential for my new role. Digium is ideal for a business with both a very technical staff and a user base that is not remote. Digium was selected due to price and ability to create custom applications.
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    Return on Investment
    Consensus Cloud Solutions
    • We were able to reduce costs by using eFax and make our faxing company-wide simpler!
    • We were able to remove a landline for faxing.
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    Sangoma
    • being zero cost, we saved at least 3 million on what a legacy pbx would have cost
    • the savings and speed means lower cost on our service making us more competitive
    • stability
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