Staples Fax: What It Costs
Staples sends faxes on a self-service machine in the store's print center and does not publish a price online. Below, what its own page says, and the same send from your phone.
What Staples charges
A price here is a published figure for the place named, not a rate every location charges.
Staples publishes no fax price on its site. Its in-store printing page says "Copy, print, scan and fax all in one place. Just pay at the machine and go."
Receiving a fax there
Staples' page describes sending ("local, long-distance and international faxing along with a printed confirmation") and says nothing about receiving a fax for a customer, so plan on sending only unless your store tells you otherwise.
SourceCounter versus phone
The counter column is computed from the figures above; the phone column is what FaxTerra charges.
What FaxTerra charges, from its own price list. The counter sets its own.
Every FaxTerra account gets 10 free pages a month, and a page to a US fax number counts as one. A document of up to 10 pages sends free, with no credit card.
Free pages reset on the 1st. If a second document takes you past 10 pages, a FaxTerra Lite pack covers it, with no subscription.
How faxing at Staples works
Take the pages to the self-service machine in the print center. You feed them, type the number, pay at the machine, and take the printed confirmation. The page says the machine sends local, long-distance and international faxes.
What the machine cannot do
It cannot give you a number of your own, and the store's page does not describe receiving at all. To receive, you need a number of your own. A One-Time Fax Number is $14.99 once, live for 90 days with 50 pages and nothing to cancel; a Starter plan is $4.99 a month with a number included. Either way the fax lands in your inbox as a PDF and an email tells you it is there.
The same send from your phone
Every FaxTerra account sends 10 free pages a month, with no card on file. Photograph the pages or upload the PDF at faxterra.com/send, type the number, and an email confirms delivery. Past the free pages, credit packs start at $1.99 and never expire.
Questions
How much does it cost to fax at Staples?
Staples does not publish a fax price on its site; its page says to pay at the machine. On FaxTerra the first 10 pages each month cost nothing.
Can I receive a fax at Staples?
Staples' page describes sending with a printed confirmation and says nothing about receiving. A number of your own on FaxTerra receives into your inbox.
Does Staples fax internationally?
Yes. The in-store printing page lists local, long-distance and international faxing along with a printed confirmation.
Is it cheaper to fax from my phone?
The first 10 pages a month are free on FaxTerra, with no card and no trip. A cover sheet, if you want one, prints free from our fax cover sheet page.
Sources
More places: The UPS Store · FedEx Office · Office Depot and OfficeMax · The public library · A hotel business center · every place that faxes
FaxTerra is a fax service, not Staples. Where its counter quotes a different rate, the counter is right. Reviewed October 2026.
Going to the counter: print a free fax cover sheet to put on top.
Send it from where you are standing
Photograph the pages or upload the PDF, type the number, and it goes out in minutes; an email confirms delivery. 10 pages free every month.