Copy, Move, Or Delete Files
Copy a file to one place or several at once, move it, or delete it after it has been handed off. One workflow can fan a single arrival out to multiple destinations.
Move Files On Their Own, Reliably, With No Scripts To Babysit
Files.com Automations move, copy, route, and clean up files on their own. They run the moment a file arrives, on a schedule, or when an app calls in. So you can retire the cron jobs and glue scripts that quietly run your business. Build a workflow in the browser, point it at any of 50+ systems, and let it run with automatic retries and a full record of every step. No code required, no fragile scripts to maintain.
Retire The Wall Of Cron Jobs And Glue Scripts
Most companies have a pile of machinery that moves files between systems: Bash and PowerShell scripts, cron jobs, a Lambda function or two, maybe an expensive integration platform. It breaks easily. It fails quietly. And usually one person understands it. The day that person leaves, you are exposed.
Files.com Automations take that work over and put it on a supported platform. A file arrives, a schedule rolls over, or an app calls in over a webhook, and the workflow runs: copy, move, delete, or route the file to another system. Every run retries on failure and lands in the audit log with the trigger, the files touched, and the outcome. No more glue code, no more tribal knowledge living in one engineer’s head.
“It’s easy to handle automation around encrypted files and ensure they end up in the right spot, at the right time.”
Darrin Olsen, Database Engineer IIIChildren's Miracle Network
Build It In A Form, See It Before You Save
Pick the trigger, the source, and the destination, set the filters and the schedule, and a live Preview spells out exactly what the automation will do before you turn it on. No script to write and nothing to deploy.
When you would rather define it in code, the same automation is reachable through the API and SDKs and a Terraform provider.
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Three Ways A Workflow Starts
A workflow fires on the event that matters to you: a file landing, the clock, or another app reaching in.
When A File Arrives
A partner uploads over SFTP, FTP, FTPS, WebDAV, or the API, and the workflow fires the moment the file lands. This is the classic pattern: a partner drops a file and the rest happens on its own.
On A Schedule
Run a workflow daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly. Pick the time, the time zone, and a window for it to run in. It can even skip holidays for a region you choose, so a payroll run doesn’t fire on a bank holiday.
When An App Calls In
Another app sends a webhook, a quick web request that says “go,” and the workflow runs. That’s how a SaaS tool in your stack kicks off a file workflow without anyone touching it.
What A Workflow Does
Route It Anywhere
Send files out to S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage, a partner’s SFTP server, or onto your own machine in the office through the Files.com Agent. Over 50 systems are reachable as a destination.
Match Hundreds Of Folders At Once
Use wildcards in the path so one workflow covers a whole folder tree instead of a single folder. Set the rule up once and it handles every matching file from then on.
Retry On Its Own When Something Fails
A transfer hiccup doesn’t mean a dropped file. Files.com retries failed runs automatically and records every attempt, so a flaky network doesn’t turn into a 2 a.m. page.
Your Partners Are On The Platform Too
An integration platform like Boomi, MuleSoft, or Zapier only shows your point of view. Your partner can’t log in, can’t see the logs, and can’t fix their own side. So every “why didn’t my file arrive?” routes back through your IT team, forever.
On Files.com the partner is on the same platform as the workflow. They get their own login. They can see what ran, read the logs that apply to them, and fix most things themselves, so your people stay out of the middle of every question. For deeper control, every workflow is also reachable through the API and SDKs.
Workflow & Automation Questions
Common questions about building file workflows on Files.com: how they trigger, what they do, and what makes them more dependable than the scripts they replace.
Automate Everything That Moves
Start a free trial, build your first workflow in the browser, and point it at any of 50+ systems. Let it run with automatic retries and a full record of every step, with no scripts to maintain.
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