Send a Fax for $1 in the US or Canada (No Subscription)

Sending and receiving are two different jobs

Fax never died; owning a fax machine did. And the machine used to do two jobs at once: send your paperwork out and catch what came back. Online, those jobs split into two clean tools, each pay-per-use:

• Sending: FaxForADollar.com, $1 for up to 10 pages to any US or Canadian fax number.
• Receiving: GetAFax.com, $5 for your own US fax number for 24 hours, delivered to your email with a plain-English summary.

Both are from the same company, Alpha Leonis Production Studio LLC, and both share the same philosophy: pay once for the fax in front of you, never for a plan.

Why $1 pay-per-fax beats a sending subscription

Sending faxes is even more occasional than receiving them. A signed form to the IRS in April, an insurance form in September, maybe a records release once a year. Monthly fax plans charge $10 to $18 every month for that, which is $120 to $216 a year of mostly silence, plus an account to babysit.

At $1 per fax, the math doesn't need a calculator: send a fax every single month and you've spent $12 in a year, less than one month of a typical plan. Send three a year, like most people, and it's $3. Free fax apps fill the gap with accounts, ads, page caps, and cover sheets you don't control. The $1 route has none of that: no signup, nothing renewing, nothing to cancel.

How to send a fax for $1, step by step

1. Open FaxForADollar.com in any browser, phone or computer.
2. Upload your document. PDF, Word document, or an image, including a phone photo of a signed form, which gets converted and faxed like any page.
3. Enter the destination fax number. Any US or Canadian fax line: the IRS, a court clerk, a doctor's office, an insurer, a title company.
4. Pay $1 for up to 10 pages. The price is shown before you pay. Longer documents cost proportionally more, always shown upfront.
5. Get your confirmation by email once the fax transmits. That delivery record is the whole reason offices still trust fax.

The classic send-then-receive situations

Most fax errands are actually round trips, which is why the two sites exist side by side:

• IRS paperwork: you fax a signed form in ($1), and the agent says they'll fax the confirmation or transcript back. Get your receiving number at GetAFax.com while you're still on the call.
• Legal documents: sign and fax the agreement back to the law office, then receive the countersigned copy at your own number with the deadlines pulled out.
• Medical records: fax the signed release form to the clinic, then receive the records at your number with a quality check confirming every page arrived.
• Insurance claims: fax photos and signed forms to the adjuster, receive the settlement letter back, decoded on arrival.

Each direction is its own small purchase, and the whole round trip still costs less than one month of any subscription.

What to know before you hit send

• Double-check the destination number. A fax dials exactly what you type. Confirm the office's fax number from their paperwork or website before sending anything sensitive.
• Photos work, but make them readable. Shoot signed forms straight-on, in good light, with the whole page in frame. Fax is black-and-white at heart, so contrast matters.
• Page counts are upfront. Up to 10 pages rides on the $1; bigger documents show their price before you pay, never after.
• International destination? US and Canada are FaxForADollar territory. For everywhere else, OverseasFax.com sends to 90+ countries, covered in our international sending guide.

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