File Request Links — Collect Files From Clients & Teams

When you need files <em>from</em> people — client deliverables, contractor assets, teammate uploads, customer documents — the job doesn't end when the file lands. You still have to organize it, keep it somewhere durable, and hand it back out again as a link that actually works. Consumer file-request tools stop at the intake: Dropbox File Requests give a sender a no-account upload form, and Google Forms or WeTransfer collect a batch and drop it in a folder — all fine for a one-time gather, but none is built to <em>redeliver</em> what you collected as fast, global, developer-controlled links. files.link comes at the same problem from the storage-and-CDN side: you collect files into organized project folders, then every file gets a permanent CDN download URL or a private, cryptographically signed link the moment it's uploaded — so the same file you collected is instantly deliverable to a client, a teammate, or your own app, with no recipient account required to download.

Here's the honest scope, because promising a feature that doesn't exist helps nobody. Today files.link is developer-first: the intake side is API-driven, not a hosted consumer upload form. You collect files one of two truthful ways — invite teammates as project collaborators so they upload straight into shared folders from the dashboard, or wire the three-call REST upload (request a presigned URL, PUT the bytes, confirm) into your own intake form, client portal, or internal tool.

The file upload API, the upload a file guide, and the files SDK all cover that flow. Once files are in, delivery is the payoff: permanent links for anything public, signed links that default to a 10-minute window (up to 7 days) for anything private, and the same file sharing surface your whole team already uses.

Pricing is prepaid credits with no per-seat plan — you pay for the storage and bandwidth you use, so a heavy collection month costs more and a quiet one costs less, with nothing auto-renewing. If what you actually need is a hosted, no-account public upload request page like Dropbox's, start an account and tell us — the signup CTA carries that intent so we can prioritize it for the people asking.

If you're building the intake yourself and want a real storage + CDN backbone underneath it, that part is here today.