See exactly who opens the PDFs you share
Sending a proposal, report, or term sheet and hearing nothing back puts you at a disadvantage. WeTransfer lets you see who has opened your PDF and when, so you can follow up with confidence and walk into every conversation with the full picture.
Keep count of who views your transfer
For finance and banking professionals, knowing whether a counterpart has actually reviewed a document is often as important as sending it. WeTransfer lets you enable download tracking on any PDF transfer, requiring recipients to verify their email address before accessing the file, so every view is tied to a real identity with a timestamp. Preview activity, when a recipient opens your PDF in the browser without downloading it, registers as its own engagement signal in your Transfers panel, giving you visibility even when no file is saved. You can also lock a transfer to a named list of email addresses, so a credit memo, pitch deck, or regulatory document can only be reached by the intended recipients at a specific firm or institution. Files arrive exactly as you uploaded them, with no modification to formatting, resolution, or content.
What makes WeTransfer different
Our features are designed to minimize how much of your data we — or anyone else — can access, so you can keep what's yours, yours.
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Everything you need
Give people simple tools, and they'll do extraordinary things. Ultra-fast file transfers, built-in customization, easier team collaboration. That's the magic of WeTransfer.
Move your ideas forward
Share content with a unique link, give anyone a free pass to send you 200 GB files, and stay in control of transfers — even after you hit send.
Collaboration tools for teams of all sizes
With tools designed to enhance collaboration, get everyone in your team talking and moving as one, without disrupting their workflow.
Share with confidence and security
From password protection to file encryption, WeTransfer has all the built-in security features you need to safeguard your work.
FAQs
All your questions answered.
Yes. WeTransfer records preview activity and download activity as separate events in your Transfers panel. If a client opens your PDF in the browser, that engagement is visible independently of whether they chose to download the file, so you always have a clear picture of what happened even if no file lands in their inbox.
No account is needed to open or preview a transfer. When download tracking is enabled, recipients verify their email address before accessing the file, but that verification step does not require them to sign up. For banking and finance workflows where clients may be reluctant to create accounts, this keeps friction low while still giving you a verified record of who opened the document.
Tracked downloads allow anyone with the link to open your PDF after verifying their email, and you receive a notification each time someone does. Restricted downloads go further: only email addresses on your specified list can access the file at all, so if you are sending a term sheet or a confidential report to a single counterpart or a defined team, nobody outside that list can reach the document even if the link is forwarded.
Yes. Password protection and download tracking can be used together on the same transfer. This means recipients must first know the password to reach the file and then verify their email before downloading, giving you two layers of access control on top of a timestamped record of every person who engaged with the document.
No. WeTransfer sends files without modification, so the PDF your recipient opens is identical to what you uploaded. Fonts, tables, charts, and page layouts remain intact whether the recipient previews the document in the browser or downloads it, which matters when the document contains financial data or precisely formatted disclosures.