Check Fax Delivery with AI

Check whether a fax you sent was delivered, and get its fax confirmation report, from Claude or ChatGPT using the Fax.Plus MCP connector. Ask in plain words and get the status back.

Before you start

• Use an active Fax.Plus Basic plan or higher and an existing authorized Fax.Plus MCP connection.
• Use a compatible client with remote MCP support. These steps use Claude web; interface labels may differ in ChatGPT and other clients.
• MCP is unavailable for accounts with Advanced Security Controls, including HIPAA and PHIPA configurations.
• Confirm that the connection uses the account that sent the fax.

For connection help, see the Fax.Plus MCP setup hub and the client connection guide.

How to check whether a fax was delivered

1. Open a new chat. Use your connected assistant with Fax.Plus available.
2. Ask about your recent faxes. Enter “Show my last 5 sent faxes and their status.”
3. Review the lookup. If your client asks for approval, check that it is a fax lookup. The tool catalog calls it list-faxes (List fax records). Faxes still waiting to go out are in the outbox, list-outbox-faxes (List outgoing/queued faxes).
4. Open one fax. Ask “Did the newest one go through?” The assistant reads that fax's record (get-fax).
5. Get the report. Ask “Get the fax confirmation report for it.” The report comes back as a PDF (get-fax-report).

The check is read-only. It does not resend, change or delete anything.

Example prompts

Copy a prompt into your connected assistant. Each one works on the faxes already in your account.

Understand the result

A sent fax shows a status such as success, or a failure with a short reason, for example an unallocated number. A fax still in the outbox has not been delivered yet; it shows as preparing or sending, and moves to your sent faxes when the send finishes, so check again in a minute.

The fax confirmation report is a one-page PDF with the date and time, sender, recipient, page count and result. It records that the fax was transmitted to that number. It does not show that a particular person read it.

If a fax failed, the record says so and you can ask the assistant to resend it. If the lookup returns no entries, no faxes match the request. If the tool is unavailable or reports a failure, the check did not run; that does not mean the fax was not delivered.

Related setup and next steps

Explore the MCP setup hub and the official Faxes tool catalog. Next: read a received fax.