Email To People
Tell a person, or a whole list, when files land in a folder. Emails carry your logo, your colors, and your reply-to address, and batch up — from every five minutes to a once-a-day digest at the hour you pick — so nobody gets flooded.
Stop Polling. Let Files.com Tell You.
The usual way to know when a file shows up is to write a service that asks Files.com, over and over, whether anything changed. That service needs retries when a call fails, logging when something looks wrong, and health checks to make sure it’s even running — a small system you now own and maintain, just to learn that a file arrived. It’s the wrong pattern, and it never moves the business forward.
Notifications flip it around. Files.com pushes the event to you the instant it happens — to a person by email, to your own code by webhook, or into your cloud through SNS or Pub/Sub. You stop asking Files.com what changed. It tells you.
Send Events Where Your Team Works
One event, delivered however the recipient needs it — a human in their inbox, an app at a URL, a channel, or a cloud message bus.
Webhooks To Systems
Fire an HTTP request to your own app the instant something happens — a webhook is just a call to a URL you control. Pick GET or POST, JSON, XML, or raw, add your own headers, list a backup URL, and even ride the file’s contents along for files up to 25 MB.
Slack And Microsoft Teams
Drop a message into a Slack or Microsoft Teams channel within seconds of an event, so the people watching a feed see it where they already work, not in a console they have to go check.
Amazon SNS And Google Pub/Sub
Publish events straight into Amazon SNS or Google Cloud Pub/Sub, where your own Lambdas, queues, and pipelines pick them up. The event lands inside your cloud, ready for whatever you already have listening.
Fire Only For What Matters
Scoped To A Folder
Watch one folder and, by default, everything beneath it. A notification covers the part of your site you care about — not a firehose of everything that happens everywhere.
Filtered By File Action
Choose which actions fire it — uploads, downloads, updates, moves, copies, deletes — in any combination. Watch only for new files, or only for deletions, or for all of it.
Narrowed By File Name
Match file names with glob patterns — only *.csv, only invoices, everything except temp files. The notification fires for the files that matter and stays quiet for the rest.
Rich Event Detail
Every message carries what happened: the action, the file path, the destination on a move or copy, an ISO-8601 timestamp, who did it, and which protocol they came in over — web, FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, or the API.
Real-Time Events Into Your Cloud
For systems rather than people, the webhook and cloud channels send one message per event, within seconds. Amazon SNS hands the event to your SQS queues, Lambdas, and HTTPS endpoints; Google Cloud Pub/Sub lands it inside Google Cloud for Cloud Functions and Dataflow. Webhooks keep retrying for about three days if a delivery fails, and email you if they keep failing, so an event your app missed during a deploy still gets through.
Notifications push events outward as they happen. If you need the retained, queryable history of everything — the kind you search months later or stream to your security tools — that’s the audit log, a separate record. See what each plan includes on the pricing page.
Notifications Questions
What teams ask about how Files.com pushes events out — which channels are real-time, how to verify a webhook, and what fires a notification.
Wire Files.com Into Your Stack
Start a free trial, point a notification at a folder, and watch every upload and delete land where your team works — an inbox, a Slack channel, or your own code — the moment it happens.
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