Organize Your Fax Inbox with AI

Keep your fax inbox tidy from Claude or ChatGPT with the Fax.Plus MCP connector: find unread faxes, mark them read, add a note such as a case number, tag several at once, or remove a record.

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 received the faxes.

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

How to organize your fax inbox

1. Open a new chat. Use your connected assistant with Fax.Plus available.
2. Find what needs attention. Enter “Show my unread received faxes.” The tool catalog calls this list-faxes (list fax records). This is read-only.
3. Mark or note one fax. Ask the assistant to mark a fax as read or add a comment. It shows the change and asks for your OK (update-fax: update fax metadata, is_read and comment).
4. Change several at once. Ask for the same change on a few faxes. The assistant lists them and asks for your OK (bulk-update-faxes: bulk update fax metadata).
5. Remove a record. Name the fax. The assistant confirms which one before it deletes (delete-fax, marked destructive in the tool catalog).

Finding faxes changes nothing. Marking, commenting and deleting change the fax record, not the fax pages.

Before you confirm

These are write actions on your real inbox. A comment or a read mark is easy to change back, but deleting a fax record is destructive and the record may not come back, and records like these often serve as proof of what arrived. Check which faxes the assistant names, and keep the Fax.Plus fax tools on Needs approval so nothing changes without your OK.

Example prompts

Copy a prompt into your connected assistant and replace the text in brackets.

Understand the result

After a change, the assistant reports what it updated. Ask it to show the fax again to confirm the read mark or the comment. A comment is saved on the fax record and the pages stay as they were.

If a tool is unavailable or reports a failure, the change did not run; check the connection and the account before trying again. If a lookup returns no entries, no faxes match the request.

Keep sender numbers and document contents out of shared screenshots and summaries.

Related setup and next steps

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