By eFax Corporate Guest Blog

Have you ever thought about turning your clients’ existing MFDs into fax machines? Adding value as their MSP while saving costs, real estate, onsite maintenance visits without the phone line’s cost, or fax server card, or needing a dusty old fax machine sitting beside it? You can help your customers remove their desktop fax machines and create a more cost-effective fax solution by leveraging the cloud and your customers’ multifunction devices (MFDs).

As an eFax Corporate Partner, you can help your customers enjoy a smooth, money-saving transition to a cloud fax solution that offers tremendous business benefits, including:

But what if my customer still needs paper-based faxing?

When we say that eFax Corporate lets a business remove all in-house fax hardware and instead fax electronically, we should also point out that your customers can move their fax infrastructure to the cloud and still send and receive faxes by paper when necessary. That’s because the online fax solution from eFax Corporate integrates seamlessly with virtually any MFD.

In other words, you can provide your customers an online faxing solution that delivers three benefits at once: eliminating their costly in-house fax infrastructure, improving productivity and fax processes by leveraging the cloud (eFax Corporate lets you fax by email, even from a smartphone), and maintaining a means of paper-based faxing without introducing any new hardware.

By creating a hybrid cloud and MFD fax solution, you can help your customers get rid of their desktop fax machines (and/or fax servers) and simply move the paper-based faxing component (if they still want it) to their existing MFDs. This will reduce energy costs, save desktop space and remove several pieces of office hardware that would otherwise demand ongoing supplies and maintenance.

Because a networked MFD can access the Internet via your customers’ corporate networks, they can also give up their dedicated fax-machine phone line—and instead leverage the Internet when they fax using their MFDs.

Indeed, we find that when new eFax Corporate customers cancel the dedicated PSTN phone line they were using for their fax machines, that savings alone is often more than enough to fully offset the cost of eFax Corporate.

Essentially, integrating their MFDs into a comprehensive, cloud fax service will let your customers:

And they get all of these benefits while still allowing employees to easily and in a single step send a paper-based fax.

This means your customers can create a seamless, enterprise-wide cloud fax infrastructure that lets employees fax by email, Web interface, through their personal productivity tools or from any Internet-connected device (yes, even a smartphone)—and integrate that same solution into their MFDs so they can also send and receive paper faxes when necessary.

As an MSP, you can also tailor the eFax Corporate/Integrated MFD solution to each customer’s unique needs—from a small office with a single desktop MFD, all the way up to a complex network of MFDs distributed throughout a global enterprise.

The eFax Corporate integrated Cloud Faxing and MFD solution is another reason eFax remains the industry’s most trusted online fax service—and another reason to become an eFax Corporate Partner and add our suite of enterprise-caliber faxing solutions to your offering.

Find out more about this unique solution for your customers by viewing our Integrating MFDs with Cloud Fax Services webinar.

And please visit our eFax Corporate Partner page.

Peter Ely is Leader, Enterprise Partner Programs at eFax. Guest blogs such as this one are published monthly and are part of MSPmentor’s annual platinum sponsorship.