Help Center/Requesting Files/Sharing Your Request Link

Sharing Your Request Link

Once you've created a request, sharing it is the same as sharing any other link. ZappFiles doesn't send anything on your behalf, so you're in full control of who gets the link and how.

Copying the link

Right after you create a request, you'll see the link with a big "Copy link" button. If you close that screen, you can always grab the link again from the request list: each row has a small copy icon on the right side that drops the URL straight onto your clipboard.

From there, paste it wherever you like. Email, chat, Slack, a text message, a calendar invite. The link works the same everywhere.

What recipients see

When someone opens your link they land on a clean upload page showing your request title and your email address, so they know who they're sending files to and what for. They don't need to sign in or create an account.

The form asks them to pick files (or a whole folder on desktop), fill in their own email address, and optionally add their name. That's it. They hit "Send files" and the upload starts, with the same progress UI as a regular ZappFiles transfer.

When the upload finishes they see a confirmation listing every file that was delivered to you, plus an "Upload more" button in case they have a second batch to send.

One link, many submissions

A single request link can collect files from as many people as you want, and each person can upload multiple times. Every submission is stored separately under the request, tagged with the uploader's name and email, so you can always tell who sent what.

This makes a request link handy for collecting files from a group: one link to the whole team, and everything lands in one place for you.

Privacy

Request URLs include a long random token, so they aren't guessable. Only people you share the link with can use it. Search engines don't index the page, and anyone hitting an old or deleted link just sees a friendly "not found" message.