Side-by-side Comparison of Web Service Methods

Fax Transmission Methods

	SendCharFax	Sendfax	SendfaxEx_2 (supersedes SendfaxEx)
Username required	•	•	•
Password required	•	•	•
Fax number required	•	•	•
Multiple fax numbers allowed			•
Send textual file (TXT, HTML, PS, etc)	•	•	•
Send base64-encoded binary file (DOC, XLS, PDF, etc)		•	•
Send multiple documents			•
Postpone faxes			•
Define CSID (overrides user setting default)			•
Set 'Subject' for reference			•
Set email confirmation reply address (override user setting default)			•
Set page size to A4, Letter, Legal, or B4 (overrides user setting default)			•
Set page orientation to Portrait or Landscape (overrides user setting default)			•
Set resolution to Standard or Fine (overrides user setting default)			•
Set rendering optimization to Greyscale or B&W (overrides user setting default)			•

Fax Status Retrieval Methods

	FaxStatus	FaxStatusEx	FaxStatusXML	FaxQuery*
Username Required	•	•	•	•
Password Required	•	•	•	•
Can limit number of returned transactions	•	•	•	•
Total count of user transactions	•	•	•	•
Count of records returned by query	•	•	•	•
Submission time	•	•	•	•
Postponed-to time	•	•	•	•
Completion time	•	•	•	•
Destination fax number	•	•	•	•
Received CSID	•	•	•	•
Total pages sent	•	•	•	•
Transmission result	•	•	•	•
Fax transmission duration	•	•	•	•
Fax subject (if submitted)	•	•	•	•
Number of pages originally submitted	•	•	•	•
If fax broadcast - parent ID		•	•	•
Submitting user's UserID		•		•
Email confirmation address		•	•	•
Fax cost (Units x CostPerUnit)		•	•	•
Page Size (A4, Letter, Legal, B4)		•	•	•
Page Orientation (Portrait, Landscape)		•	•	•
Resolution (Standard, Fine)		•	•	•
Rendering Optimization (Greyscale, B&W)		•	•	•
Information returned XML-encoded in text stream (no complex variables need be defined; requires XML parsing of result)			•

* FaxQuery is a forward-compatible query method which uses "verbs" to determine the set of transactions returned by the query. It is functionally equivalent to FaxStatusEx, but allows new query types to be added in the future with no change to the method syntax.