Before you can Send Fax or Send Faxletter or Send Fax Notification, you need to configure Faxletter.

In this article, the steps to configure faxletter is explained. Followed by the steps to create Faxletter groups, to subscribe fax numbers into groups are detailed. These are done in Admin Faxletter page and Admin Faxletter Subscription page.


To configure Faxletter:

1. Turn on Faxletter feature

First of all, you need to login in as Admin, and go to Administration Features page, turn on the Faxletters feature.

    

2. Register with Interfax.net

You need to register with a Fax Gateway provider. Our CMS is using interfax.net company, www.interfax.net which is very reliable and provide reporting tools in their website to track all the Fax sent out by you from your site.

Once you have registered with the Interfax.net, Interfax will provide you userID and password. You will then need to buy Fax credits online from Interfax.
     

3. Configure Fax Gateway Provider information

You need to input the provided userID and password into the CMS's Administration General Page. Important Note: In the Sender Fax No, enter your fax number which will be appeared in the fax receipt by recipient.

     

If you can read up to this stage, means that you have successfully configured the Faxletters.

Now, you need to create Faxletter groups and subscribe the fax numbers into the Groups.

Here are the steps to Admin Faxletter:

1. Go to Admin Faxletters page.

Login as admin or user who has the permission to admin Faxletters. Click Faxletters folder to expand the list. Click Admin Faxletters hyperlink to open Admin Faxletters page.

                         

2. Create Faxletter Group

It is a good practice to store your customers' or contacts' fax numbers into several Faxletter groups, which can be categorized by geographic location like states, or consumers category like end users, middleman, etc. By doing so, you can reduce the traffic when sending bulk Fax with the Faxletter.

In the Name textbox, enter the Group name.

In the Description textbox, enter the description of group.

Click Save button.

Note: The newly added Faxletter group will be added in the list of existing Faxletter groups.

          


3. Subscribe Fax Nos to Group

Look for the Group you wish to add subscription, click its subscriptions hyperlink. This will jump to Admin Faxletter Subscription page.

In the Fax No textbox, enter the fax number of the subscriber.

In the Company textbox, enter the company/name of the subscriber, if any.

Click the Save button to subscribe.

Note: The newly added subscription will be added to the list of existing subscriptions.