STFax v3.7: $ 49.95

STFax Professional is a commercial fax, voice and mini-BBS program for the Amiga. Advanced facsimile features, voice control for voice modems - you can use your Amiga as a digital answer machine, voicemail system, use your modem as a telephone - create a fax on demand service (ideal for small businesses - use fax on demand to remotely download facsimile information about your products!) or even run a mini-BBS.

Key Feature List (v3.7 released 24/12/98)

• Fax Support For Virtually All Fax Modems
  STFax supports all fax classes: 1, 2 and 2.0. You can use virtually any fax compatible modem from the cheapest 14.4 to the most expensive 56K. STFax allows you to automatically print incoming faxes to your printer when received.

• Independent Operation Mode Support
  STFax Professional supports the Independent Operational Mode as found within the PACE 'Solo', 3-Com Message Plus (and Pro ), and Kortex Adaptix modems.

  Independent Operation Mode allows you to use the modem as a digital answer and fax machine without the need for your Amiga to be switched on! The modem will answer with a greeting, the caller can leave a message as per a normal answer machine and, if they are sending a fax, the modem will switch into fax mode and receive the fax.

  The voice and fax messages are then stored on the modem and, the next time you run your Amiga and STFax Professional, these messages are automatically downloaded to your software. Then you are able to play/view/print/delete the messages.

  STFax Professional supports the advanced Independent Operation Mode features found only within the PACE 'Solo' modem. For instance you can remotely retrieve you messages, you can use the 'follow me' option to call you on your mobile and play important messagesand so on.

• Simple or Powerful Voice System
  You can setup STFax to answer your phone in the same way as a normal answerphone. The caller dials your number, hears "sorry, we are currently unavailable, please leave a message after the tone" and records their message.

  You can expand on this system by introducing multiple voice boxes for each member of the family, or office worker. For example:

  "You run a business consisting of three people: Jim, Mike and Claire. Each office member would have a voice box. A call comes into the office and the caller hears "Press 1 for sales, press 2 for support or press 3 to record a message" , "Press 1 for Mike, press 2 for Jim press 3 for Claire" , "Hi this is Jim, it is Friday the 23rd and I will be out of the office this morning. Leave a message after the tone and I will get back to you or press 1 now to be diverted to an operator.

  The caller then leaves a message for Jim. Jim returns to the office, examines his personal voice messages and returns the calls."

• Tree Structure Advanced Voice Scripting
  Create a heirachical tree based voice scripting system with unlimited branches. Allows you to create a professional voice system which directs a user to an operator, pre-recorded announcements, fax-on-demand service, voice mailboxes and more.

• Fax-on-Demand
  Assign numbers to pre-created fax documents. Allows your callers to demand a fax by entering the reference number, enabling you to provide product or support literature/information 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year.

• Quick Dialer
  Use your modem as a telephone replacement.

• Speakerphone Support
  A user can use their modem speakerphone as a telephone replacement (depends on modem). Hands free communication with the ability for conferencing.

• Local Script Testing
  Once you have created your advanced voice script, test the script locally via your speakerphone, speakers or earphones. No need to keep dialing your modem to test the script.

• Phonebook
  Store important phone and fax numbers. Easily access these numbers when using the dialer, sending a fax, broadcasting faxes.

• Shared Serial Access
  Allows you to launch other comms packages without having to exit STFax. Go online with your Internet software and leave STFax running in the background.

• Remote Retrieval
  Remotely dial and log into STFax and forward faxes, listen to recorded voice messages etc. As each mailbox is password protected, each user can individually remotely access their voice messages.

• Auto-Print
  Set STFax to automatically print incoming faxes.

• User-Defined Voicebox
  Users can setup their own voiceboxes, with password and other settings. An incoming caller can be directed to this box, where there message will be left.

• Personalised Greetings
  By using Caller ID (modem needs to support Caller ID), a user can "assign" personalised greetings to particular caller. An example:
  

  "Mike half-heartedly asked his girlfried to dinner that evening but wanted to confirm it by telephone. He phones her, she's not at home, but her sister tells him she will call you when she returns.

  Damn, he's got to go out and meet someone and can't wait for the call. Mike records her a personal greeting, "Lisa, I had to rush out. Can we meet at Giovanni's around 7.30pm this evening? Leave me a message if there is a problem, if not I'll meet you at the restaurant".

  Lisa arrives home, hears the message but realises she won't be able to make it for 7.30pm, so calls Mike and returns the message "Hi Mike, can't make 7.30pm, but I'll meet you there before 8pm".

  Obviously Mike is not at home, but he can get to hear this message. He calls from a phonebox after his meeting, remotely accessing his voicebox, hears the message and makes his way to the restaurant for 7.45pm."

  In this example, Lisa is the only person who hears the personalised greeting. If someone else called before or after Lisa, they would have heard a standard greeting such as "Sorry I am currently unavailable, leave me a message and I'll get back to you", or something similar.

• External Program Control
  Launch a script when an incoming call is detected which can control the action of programs outside STFax. Example:

  "You are a freelance writer who likes to work with music playing in the background at a high volume, but does not want to miss possible important calls from publishers or magazines. You can set STFax to automatically pause (providing the software supports arexx) the music player when an incoming call is detected, allow you to make the phone call, and then will automatically continue the music when you hangup the conversation."

• Call Screening
  By using Caller ID you can set a Blacklist of numbers which you want to ignore, or be auto-answered. Tired of salesmen? Sick of constant nagging from the mother-in-law? Moaning customers? Put their phone number in the blacklist! You can get STFax to perform "actions" when it detects this number - simply ignore the call (pretend you are busy or out), play a message "sorry, I am unavailable feel free to leave a message" or warn you that the caller is calling.

  By using Caller Priority you can also set priorities to callers, using their Caller ID. Busy but don't want to miss an important number? Maybe you are a freelance journalist needing to meet an important deadline, but daren't ignore all calls in case the editor phones! Well, assign a priority to the editor's phone number and when he calls, and only him, STFax would heavily warn you of this incoming call. All other calls would be routed to "I am not available at the moment, leave a message and I will get back to you soon".

  Number "WITHHELD" and "UNAVAILABLE" calls can also be blacklisted or you can have STFax perform actions on these numbers. Very few people call friends and deliberately withhold their phone number, but a lot of sales people making cold calls use "WITHHELD", so you aren't aware of who is making/made the call.

• Call Monitor
  Allows you to monitor calls being recorded on your digital answerphone, allowing you to intercept the caller if it is important, or to deter unwanted calls.

• Direct Scan to Fax (ScanQuix) Support
  By using ScanQuix (and a relevant scanner) you are now able to directly scan into STFax. Want to fax a document but don't have a normal fax machine? Easy. Get out your scanner, launch ScanQuix and STFax and scan directly to STFax's 'create fax' window. You are now ready to fax your documents!

14,400 bps fax (voice optional) modem (Rockwell, USR, Zyxel etc)
WB v3+    
2MB hard drive space
2MB memory
68020 processor