2. RingCentral provides Fax service and feature along with it's other
services like SMS, Call etc. RingCentral provides Send Fax API which is
based on a HTTP POST request with multipart/form-data body through
which un-rendered fax data is passed to the network. Resend FAX can
be done by the API if sending failed.
The FAX url is
/restapi/v1.0/account/accountId/extension/extensionId/fax
3.
4. Following are the input parameters of the API:
• Username: It is the user phone number and extension
• Password: It is the user password
• Recipient: Number of recipient is mandatory, recipient name is optional.
• Coverpage: Name of a cover page. Should correspond to one of the cover
pages installed on rendering server. Only one coverpage parameter in
request should exists.
• Coverpagetext: Cover page text, entered by the fax sender and printed on
the cover page. Maximum length is 1024 symbols. If not specified or its
value is empty then default .
• Resolution: It is the resolution in which fax will be sent to recipients. 'High'
for black and white image scanned at 200 dpi, 'Low' for black and white
image scanned at 100 dpi .
• Attachment: Original document file name must be passed in the filename
field of the body-part header.
5. The FAX feature is available on both the desktop and mobile versions of
the application.
There are actually 5 ways to send FAX:
• Sending fax online
• Sending fax by email
• Sending a fax using RingCentral for Desktop.
• Send a fax from Microsoft® 5 applications
• Send a fax using the RingCentral mobile app
6. We can also directly use RingCentral for sending FAX to a particular
number.
RingCentral FAX are flexible, secured with FAX log available.
The time when you are sending a fax message through the Fax API, you
can check the status of this transmission. To disable the coverpage
feature of API, set the CoverIndex to 0
