Venali

Business fax services

Testimonials (entered by the provider):

Gareth Humphreys:
I have used/knowledge of most internet fax providers, this is by far the best, way ahead of the others, they have intergration in Office 2003, they have the largest capacity, they have a junk fax filter, to stop unwanted fax, an online |Account Management centre, so you cand see your CDR's right away, as well as add and remove users.

Vanessa Sterling:
Venali, miles ahead of the others.

I signed up and got all my inbound numbers..all 23,000 of them globally all up and running in one day..How great is that!!

I never had a project run so smoothly from our comms dept here at the bank...

Thank you,
Vanessa

Mark Price:
I have used Venali Internet to fax for 8 months now, not one problem, even with setting up new address's, i do it myself, in seconds instead of the usual 48 hours.

David Mes:
Customer support, this company has the best, very friendly helpfull and on the ball, they follow up evertime, in no time.

Stephen Eggington:
I contacted Venali after i read the article from Vanessa Sterling about setting up 23000 internet fax accounts in one day, i decided to give this comany a go and set up 190 accounts, this was all done in 30 mins, every single one of them worked right away, no problems what so ever, you can do it too email .
I run a call sntre in the UK, if anyone wants to contact me to ask more, your more than welcome.

Grinner:
As above, it really is that easy and that good, am a small business user, but this service has saved me thousands and never had a problem, customer service is great!

Venali is an IP based fax solutions provider. We have a secure global IP Fax Network with four fully redundant data centres and offices in the UK, USA, Continental Europe and Asia.

Because we are an IP based Fax Service Provider, our secure solution works with your existing IT Infrastructure.

This means:
No Hardware, No Software, No Fax Machines, No Fax Servers, No Fax Cards, No Fax Boards, No Fax Lines required which equates to massive cost savings. Not to mention the savings resulting from saved time (no more wasting time by the fax machine feeding a fax through or queuing). Our fax solution provides cost savings of up to 98% over other fax offerings.

You are only charged for the successful delivery of the faxes (per destination/per minute based on second increments)

Our service includes free:
Retries
Cut/undelivered faxes
Message Delivery Reports/Confirmations
Access to a web based Account Management Centre where one can view all sent/received faxes, request instantaneous CDR's (Call Detail Records) as well as register additional users for sending

Veanli also provides Desktop, SAP, Production and ERP system solutions.

For Desktop:

We have both outbound and inbound fax solutions from any email client.

To send simply:
"Open" a new email
Writes the fax message in the body of the email or attach the document to be faxed (any file type, any number of attachments)
Address the email "FAXNUMBER@venali.net"
"Click" send

Its that simple.

Extra Free Features include;
Junk/ Spam Fax Filter
OCR functionality
Multi-Optional Cover Sheets

Venali is a partner of Microsoft, our desktop solution is also fully integrated into MS Office 2003, providing additional functionality.

Production

The same format functions for our Email via SMTP Production Messaging Solution. We also offer XML via HTTPS Production Messaging as well as offering a Fax Solution for SAP which is 100% hardware/software free.

If you would like me to arrange a free Venali desktop fax trial account for you, in order to examine the quality of our Network, please let me know. I am happy to answer any further questions you may have.

sales.de@venali.com

I signed up for the 30-day free trial with the toll free number. Activation was easy and I received my first fax before I even got back from my testing FAX machine! So far so good.

I dont think you can beat $12.95/mo for a toll free number. (40 pages)

As a matter of fact, you CAN beat this!

InterFAX (link to discussions here, link to website) offers inbound service on toll-free numbers for $12.95 which includes 200 pages!

2 thumbs up to venali. I've been using efax, ugh, and a couple of other faxing services but this one was the most professional by far. It's fully integrated into office 2003, pity i don't use it, but still works fine otherwise too. You also get local numbers to try out for 30 days which efax doesn't provide. Moreover if there's a problem with the email you can always go to the site and check out the faxes through the fax storage facility, which is cool as i lost many faxes this way to efax, who btw are more intersted in spamming than serving.

Thanks for those kind words. We are glad that the reviews are positive and that you are enjoying our service.

Also remember, if you go to our website and register for a free trial account or sign up, you can always contact me for questions/ assistance.

I am happy to answer any questions you have and help out.

You can reply to this message here or contact and make the email to the attention of Vanessa.

Kind regards,
Vanessa

Add a link on your website to pricing...I couldn't find it anywhere! ughhh.

Thanks.

We use both J2 and Venali - Venali for inbound faxes (as we had reliability problems with our fax number for J2 being engaged / not accepting faxes at random times).

We've just had our first dropped fax from Venali (busy signal?) after using them for over 12 months (we use a local London fax number) - but we still wouldn't go back to J2 for recieving faxes just yet unless we had more complaints from customers.

However - we still use our J2 fax number for outgoing faxes / voice-to-email messaging, as we have found the proprietry software from J2 - their "J2 Messenger" to make authoring / sending of faxes far better and easier than simply faxing by email.

In the end, Venali has provided excelent reliability for recieving faxes, but not so good on software to support specialized sending of faxes (we wish they had an equivalient to the J2 messenger software, if they did, we would cancel our J2 account and do all faxing via Venali)

Used Venali for 2 broadcast faxes. Apart from a load of bureaucratese when getting an account (photocopies of virtually everything, which is totally stupid) I've been really pleased with their service and prices. The web management is easy to use and comprehensive, but the reports don't give the company name you called, just the number: bad!

I was going to sign up for efax, but decided to do an on-line search first.

WHEW! Dodged a bullet there. There must be a terrabyte of complaints out there about efax. And boy-howdy do they advertise (google and pop-ups).

After a few hours research, the maxemail service looks like the best bet of all of them. $15 a year is fine with me. Who needs more?

I am not sure what this hubub about long distance is all about. 1-800 numbers belong with the dinosaurs. Who today does not have unlimited long distance service? If not, shame on you for paying by the minute.

ONE PROBLEM with searching for opinions on-line is that a lot of folks "shill" these opinion pages by posting testimonials (like on epinions, which is the worst) lauding how great something is. When you see 100's of negative opinions, and then one canned scripted cut-and-paste job that lauds the service with 5 stars, you tend to figure it is a shill job. And it is.

Venali - you are doing yourself a disservice by posting your own laudatory comments here. It smacks of trying too hard at best, and shilling at the worst.

You might have a good service, maybe not. But shut up and let OTHER people tell the story, for better or worse.

I immediately crossed your company off my short list when I saw your postings (and attempts to post adverts in other threads!).

Just my two cents. Your postings are backfiring, at least on me.

This whole concept of faxes on the internet is great. It will be a great transition for me for a few years. I expect to dump my fax capability completely before 2010. Any client who can't send an e-mail can get bent. Even the government is going virtual.

Tried to sign up for free trial tonight and discovered that the area code list for Wisconsin is at least 4 years out of date. Cedarburg WI listed as 414--has been part of 262 since Dec 1999!!

A lot of these posts have great things to say about the Venali service and it looks like one of their sales reps have also posted.

I need a fax service for my business and am definitely considering Venali. However, I had some reservations about their "secure IP network." I had read a review for Internet phones that described the susceptability of VoIP to future attacks from hackers.

What makes their VoIP transmissions secure?

thanks
JS

Gareth Humphreys and Vanessa Stirling - oddly enough ex-employees of Venali - why did they get the sack I wonder

Hi
I have some doubts about the network being owned and operated by Venali, they appear to have set up a very substantial network in a very short time. Anyone know who really owns it? Mebbe their partnership with Alcatel has something to do with it?
Geoff

Geoff

Venali is, in fact, Visionlab. They have a wealth of experience - some might say 'notoriety' due to the latter's being accused of fax spamming.

Press Release: US Patent Office Grants Venali's Request to Reexamine j2 Patent on Grounds of Invalidity

MIAMI, FL. (May 18, 2005) - The United States Patent Office has granted Venali’s request for reexamination of J2 Global’s (JCOM) Patent 6597688.

“All claims of the patent will be reexamined” according to the order by the U.S. Patent Office granting the reexamination. “It is agreed that the consideration of all these references [cited by Venali in its request for reexamination] raises a substantial new question of patentability as to Claims 1-27 of [j2’s ‘688 patent].”

“We are very pleased that the U.S. Patent office agreed to our first request to reexamine a patent held by J2 Global” said Amin El-Gazzar, CEO of Venali. “While this was the first reexamination request Venali filed, we recently filed a request to reexamine a second J2 Global patent based upon new evidence which we found that shows the invalidity of the patent. Based on the newly uncovered evidence, we are extremely confident that the U.S. Patent Office will grant that request as well.”

The reexamination requests are the result of evidence uncovered during an on-going extensive investigation into the validity of the entirety of the J2 Global patent portfolio which had first been initiated by Venali in response to a suit filed by J2 Global in 2004. While Venali maintains that its processes and technologies do not infringe upon J2 Global’s patents; Venali is aiming to strengthen competition on merit in the rapidly growing Internet Fax market place by working actively on invalidating questionable J2 Global’s patents, even if they are not part of Venali’s litigation with J2.

HI SQLer,

So, does Venali own its own networks? Are you saying Venali is a subsidiary of Visionlab? Who is Visionlab?

looks like the shop will be shut within a short future. I signed up and never received a confirmation email. Then, on the next day, I wrote to support and never heard from them either.

Besides, they are not fully integrated with MS office 2003, because faxes sent to a contact do not get displayed in the contact history, which makes it necessary to make manual records.

Venali is run by Joshua Yafa, the same lowlife who has visionlab. They are underhanded scum who scam people with phony faxes. Don't use the company they will use unlitmately abuse your business name and you may end up in deep legal difficulty.

Do you have more information to base your comment on?

Feb 6, 2006 Press Release: Venali, Inc. Announces Federal Court Halts Patent Litigation By j2 Global Communications, Inc.

Venali, Inc. today announced that it recently obtained a victory in the United States Patent Office against the questionable patent rights obtained by j2 Global Communications, Inc. In response to requests by Venali, the United States Patent and Trademark Office found substantial questions of patentability concerning the inventions claimed by j2 and decided to reexamine its prior decision to issue two of the j2 patents. Based on the uncertain future of these j2 patents and possibly others, the United States District Court for the Central District of California found that j2's patent litigation against Venali should not go forward pending a decision on whether the patents should have ever been issued. The court questioned openly whether j2's other lawsuits alleging infringement of the same patents should be allowed to continue.

j2 responded to the adverse ruling by issuing an outdated press release regarding a lawsuit it filed against Venali almost 6 months ago, which Venali described as completely frivolous. Venali's CEO, Pasquale Giordano, noted that the lawsuit, which alleges violations of U.S. telecommunication law, "is rife with false allegations and appears to be copied from a junk-fax Internet web site." He noted that, "Even the most basic allegations are inaccurate, including the identity of Venali's CEO and facts concerning its corporate structure." Venali believes this suit is yet another abuse of the legal system by j2 to stifle competition. Mr. Giordano pointed out that contrary to assertions made by j2's General Counsel, Venali is a leader in the fight against junk faxes and has developed a proprietary junk fax filter to aid this effort.

Venali will vigorously defend this lawsuit and continue to fight against j2's anticompetitive practices.