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eFax Enterprise API

Programmable Fax API for Enterprise

eFax Corporate’s robust, standards-based RESTful Fax API is designed specifically for highly-regulated industries that demand strong encryption as well as high-volume faxing, empowering businesses to integrate advanced fax capabilities and enhance data interoperability.

Accomplish More With the eFax Enterprise API

Accelerate digital transformation, improve data interoperability, and streamline communications with the eFax Enterprise API.

Our standards-based API is a highly scalable, standards-based, RESTful application programming interface (API) that exposes the functionality of the eFax Corporate® platform to key trusted partners who will use it to integrate fax capability into their own applications.

Designed for easy integration with mission-critical applications in high-volume production fax environments, especially for highly regulated industries where compliance and security come first.

There are two APIs available: the Fax Services API and the Admin API.

The Fax Services API provides calls for supporting fax transmissions, downloading fax images and metadata, using webhooks for secure inbound and outbound fax notifications, deleting faxes, and using search parameters to retrieve lists of sent and received faxes. The Admin API supports administration functions for eFax Corporate accounts, including account provisioning and maintenance, number management, and managing authorizations for using the Fax Services API.

Flexible

Facilitate faxing capabilities. It’s like having your own production-class fax server in-house — but without the equipment, hassle or expense.

Responsive

Stay updated with real-time fax notifications. Better faxing reliability.

Stable

99.9% uptime. No fax servers needed. Fax directly from your CRM, ERP, or EHR.

Secure

Ensure confidentiality with every fax. TLS 1.2 encryption for fax transmissions and AES 256-bit encryption for fax storage.

How the eFax API Works

Integrating an API doesn’t have to be hard — and with eFax, it’s not. The eFax Enterprise API lets you keep things simple yet effective — all while saving you time and money.

It Integrates Fax Processes

API integration is notoriously difficult — but not with the eFax API. It seamlessly integrates into your workflows, no matter your industry or existing software. Whether your company uses ERP, CRM or electronic health record (EHR) systems, the eFax API can easily integrate into your current framework.

With such a smooth integration, you can quickly set up a powerful electronic faxing system without the labor and expenses of a traditional in-house faxing solution. And if you have any integration questions or concerns, you can get support from our team of experts.

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It Improves Efficiency

Traditional faxing takes time. Not only can the machines take time, but they can jam, break and run out of paper. Plus, you have to actually go to the fax machine to do it, which is usually at the office. That means you can’t send or receive faxes while traveling or working from home, which can slow or stall workflows.

However, with the eFax API, you can get a company-wide faxing solution that works wherever you are. You can send and receive faxes at home, at work or on the go, resulting in much more efficient processes. The eFax API also includes an XML wrapper that quickly scans barcodes with sender data, streamlining the entire file-sharing process.

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It Cuts Down Costs

With the increase in cybercrime, sharing files online can be risky unless you incorporate advanced security options. And the eFax API does. It uses TLS 1.2 encryption for all fax transmissions, plus 256-bit encryption for file storage. Not only does this keep your files safe, but it ensures your company remains compliant with regulations like HIPAA and GLBA.

You can also customize security features for both inbound and outbound faxes. For example, the eFax API lets you set up a unique URL for each fax number where it automatically posts fax results. You can also establish a unique transmission ID to track faxes.

It Offers Top-Notch Protection

With the increase in cybercrime, sharing files online can be risky unless you incorporate advanced security options. And the eFax API does. It uses TLS 1.2 encryption for all fax transmissions, plus 256-bit encryption for file storage. Not only does this keep your files safe, but it ensures your company remains compliant with regulations like HIPAA and GLBA.

You can also customize security features for both inbound and outbound faxes. For example, the eFax API lets you set up a unique URL for each fax number where it automatically posts fax results. You can also establish a unique transmission ID to track faxes.

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Cloud Fax Integration Made Simple

The eFax Enterprise Fax API enables high-volume faxing directly from customer applications, providing a unified faxing and billing environment that simplifies fax administration processes.

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    Access cloud faxing directly from within electronic healthcare applications

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    Secure API Portal for private access to account settings, technical documentation and specifications as well as a Sandbox for testing

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    Supports OAuth 2.0 token-based authentication

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    Includes both Faxing and Provisioning capabilities

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Technical Documentation

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Related FAQs

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eFax is a great option for sending important documents online. Every eFax product uses TLS protocol and two-way encryption, and there are two more options that regulated industries can use for that extra layer of protection when sending online faxes: eFax Protect and eFax Corporate. eFax Protect is HIPAA-compliant and provides BAA for further compliance. eFax Corporate is HITRUST certified and scales for enterprise businesses.

You can think of an API, or Application Programming Interface, as a bridge connecting two different pieces of software. It’s a communication protocol, a set of rules that allows one piece of software to work easily with another.

Even if you didn’t know what the term meant before reading that paragraph, you’ve been using APIs for years. It is an API, for example, that allows you to cut a block of text from a Microsoft® Word® document or a plain text file and paste it into a new Gmail message.

Yes. The added convenience and enhanced employee productivity of a fax API would be valuable to your business only if that API were at least as secure as the other means of transmitting faxes. The security concerns of sending company data unsecured — particularly proprietary or regulated data — would outweigh the benefits of being able to fax by email directly from your workflow applications.