Editor's review
Send and Receive Faxes directly through your PC. Manage your faxes and voice messaging from one location.
Pros: The application lets you manage fax communications as well as voice messages in one package. A small office, home office kind of business can manage their communications efficiently. More importantly it can turn you SOHO into a sophisticated call handling operation with the ease of an answering machine. FaxTalk Messenger Pro`s advanced fax capabilities eliminates the need for a stand-alone fax machine and provides you with a central place to store and manage your fax communications. With a interface that looks almost the same as the Outlook interface the package is easy to use and lot of Outlook users will find it very easy to learn.
It is possible to send faxes over Internet to e-mail addresses, produce professional looking faxes from applications within the Windows environment in a networked workgroup. Direct mailing campaigns can be set up via broadcast faxes to fax numbers and email addresses. Creating a powerful voice messaging system also is quite simple. Notification and forwarding of received items by email, fax, pager and telephone can be set up. In a office communication set up you can block unwanted junk faxes and stop automated telemarketing calls. Call logging and recording of conversations can help tracking expenses and reviewing important conversations. In a call center like setting the recording facility could add to training features required by users in such settings. Phonebook and contact management that has access to the Outlook contacts rounds off the features for the application. You are able to import existing WinFax PRO faxes and phonebooks. Messages received are logged prominently in the interface area.
Cons: Nothing adverse noticed here.
Overall: The application is quite rich in features and really easy to use. This application deserves a rating of 4 stars.
2. Version 8 repeatedly crashes the system upon boot when running "as a service”;
3. Phony-baloney advertising/sales inducement tactics (e.g. website’s comparison chart between ancient version 6.0 and current version 8.0, but skipping more recent versions, 7.0 and 7.5, of FaxTalk Messenger Pro); and
4. Slow processing of refunds.