Google Drive is great for editing and sharing inside your team. It just can't let a partner log in over SFTP, take in files from an outsider, or keep one record of the whole exchange. Files.com adds all of that on top of any Drive: your own My Drive or Shared Drive, or a client's or partner's. People can send, receive, and share the files in it, and you get a full record of every action. You don't have to use Google Workspace yourself to trade files with someone who does.
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Google Drive is built for people editing and sharing Docs, Sheets, Slides, and files. It was never built for partner logins over SFTP, automated file routing, or sending files out with a full record of who got what. Files.com mounts or syncs against any Drive you can reach and adds that layer on top. Nobody’s way of working in Drive changes.
The Drive can be your own My Drive or Shared Drive. Or it can belong to a client, partner, or vendor who runs on Google and expects you to exchange through their Shared Drive. Pull files out of a Drive someone else owns, drop files into theirs, or do both at once. It all stays controlled and logged on your side, so you keep the record even when you don't own the Drive.
Connect once with a service account and a single connection covers the whole share. That is how an IT team sets up a workflow. Or let each person connect their own Drive and move files in and out of it themselves, seeing exactly what they already see in Google. Either way, Files.com control and logging sit on top, so you don’t pick between team-wide setup and per-person access.
Files.com mounts a Drive folder and adds SFTP, FTPS, FTP, and WebDAV on top of it, plus the API and CLI, from one place. Drive offers none of these to partners or apps directly. They reach the files in Drive through Files.com instead.
Drive names files by an ID code instead of by their path. It even allows two files with the same name in one folder, so there’s no clean way to ask for a file by its path. Files.com puts a normal path-based API, SDKs, and CLI in front of Drive and sorts the IDs out underneath, so your code works in plain folders and filenames, with nothing in Drive’s API to work around.
A mount works on your files right where they live, in real time. There’s no copy and no migration, so Drive stays the home for the team. When the Drive belongs to someone else, a sync moves only the files the job needs, in the direction you pick.
Files.com shows Drive right next to Microsoft 365, S3, Azure Blob, and your own servers in one place, with the same folder permissions and the same full record across everything.
Files.com adds a layer of control over Drive content: who can see which folders, your company logins in front of it all, tracking on every file you send out, and a record of every action ready for the audit.
Hand each person, partner, or app the exact folders they need and nothing else, with nine levels of permission per user or group.
Every access, download, and permission change is logged in one place and can be exported to your security tools. That includes the partner logins and protocol traffic Drive never sees, so you can answer who-did-what when the audit asks.
People sign in with your company login from any major provider. Even the SFTP, FTPS, and WebDAV connections can require a second factor. When someone leaves, you cut their Drive access in one place.
Files.com can encrypt files automatically as they move. When you send a file out, the share link can carry a password, an expiration date, a limit on who can open it, a watermark, and a click-through NDA.
Mount a Drive folder as a Files.com folder. It can be My Drive, a Shared Drive, or a shared folder. Every action passes straight through in real time. Best when Files.com is the live way people and apps reach Drive.
Copy files on a schedule between Files.com and Drive, in either direction, so the files end up in both places. Drive-to-Drive syncs convert native Google file types for you automatically.
Run a rule when a file arrives, on a schedule, or when a condition is met, with the Drive mount as the source, the destination, or both. No Apps Script or Cloud Functions to write.
Teams that put Files.com in front of Drive usually swap the Google desktop app for the Files.com Desktop App. One app gives a person their Files.com files plus their SharePoint, Box, OneDrive, and Drive, all through Files.com and all controlled and logged the same way.
Contributors upload into shared Drive folders, or through a Files.com inbox, and Files.com files them where they belong for processing, review, or long-term storage.
Outside parties upload into Drive without a Google account, and Files.com moves the files into locked-down folders with the right permissions and encryption as they land.
After a merger, connect both Workspaces and run the copy remote-to-remote, with a delta pass for files written mid-move. Native Docs, Sheets, and Slides come across with everything else.
Your team runs on Microsoft 365, S3, or your own servers, but a client or partner delivers through their Google Shared Drive. Files.com syncs against that Drive on a schedule to pull their files in or push yours out, with no Google account for anyone on your team.
Give outsiders a simple upload page, or send a file request, and Files.com files and sorts what arrives, with every upload logged.
Learn MoreSend Drive files out with branded, tracked share links. Passwords, expiration dates, watermarks, and recipient controls are included.
Learn MoreRoute and process files on the Drive mount: move, encrypt, convert, and hand off across the rest of your systems.
Learn MoreEvery access, download, and permission change against the Drive mount kept in a tamper-proof, exportable record.
Learn MorePartners connect with the SFTP client or script they already run and land in the Drive folder you chose, with nothing new to install on their side.
Learn MoreMove and mirror files between Drive and other servers or clouds on a schedule, for archives, staged ingest, and pipelines that span clouds.
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Site-wide search and SDK-driven routing supported more than 200 partner and internal accounts while Ameriflex’s one-location legacy applications stayed unchanged.
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“Files.com's strengths are simplicity, ease of use, and the cloud connectors. We don't have to invent custom infrastructure for every partner.”
“Files.com is versatile — it can manage many different situations from a single platform. We've consolidated multiple tools onto it.”
“Files.com is robust and scales to a large enterprise. We get multiple files per minute, per second — and we're a 24/7 organization, so everything has to always be up.”
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