Codegres.org VS EZ File Drop

EZ File Drop's answer:

We are a pipeline, not a place files live. Most file-collection tools become the destination for your files, which means another account to manage, another bill for storage, and another place your team has to look. EZ File Drop delivers every submission into cloud storage you already use: Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, SharePoint, Box, or FTP/SFTP. We hold nothing long term.

Two other things set us apart. The person sending you files needs no account, no app, and no sign-in of any kind. And the form they see carries your brand, not ours, right down to the share link and the notification emails. Add automatic folder creation and file renaming from the form fields, and files arrive already organized instead of waiting for someone to sort them by hand.

EZ File Drop's answer:

It depends on what you are comparing us to.

The built-in request features in Dropbox, OneDrive, and Google Drive are free, but they show the provider's branding, collect almost no context about who sent what, and give you no way to embed the form on your own site or be notified when files arrive. Shared folders go further and expose everything in the folder to everyone with the link.

Transfer tools like WeTransfer are built for one person sending to another. They are not built for collecting from many people into a structure you control.

Client portals like SmartVault or Canopy give every client an account and a login. That works when clients want a shared workspace. It does not work when the person sending files is a one-time uploader who will never log in again.

EZ File Drop sits between those. You get a branded form, no sign-in for the uploader, files delivered into your own cloud storage, and folders and file names built from the answers on the form. If you need two-way document sharing or a full client portal, we are not the right tool. If you need files to come in cleanly from people outside your organization, we are.

EZ File Drop's answer:

Teams that receive files from people outside their organization. That includes video production companies and creative agencies collecting footage and brand assets from clients, print shops taking in artwork at intake, accounting firms gathering W-2s, 1099s, and bank statements, contractors and fabricators receiving site photos, drawings, and signed change orders from field teams and subcontractors, law firms collecting client documents organized by matter, nonprofits gathering waivers and grant paperwork from volunteers, and podcasters and YouTube creators managing submissions from guests and contributors.

What they have in common is that the people sending files are clients, students, vendors, or volunteers, not employees. They will not install an app or create an account, and the team receiving the files wants them to land in the right folder with the right name without anyone touching them.

EZ File Drop's answer:

EZ File Drop started inside Gorilla Creative, a video production agency in the San Francisco Bay Area. In March 2020, as work went remote, the agency needed a reliable way to collect footage from clients, much of it shot on phones. Email attachments bounced. Shared folders meant giving clients access to things they should not see. The transfer tools available compressed videos, made senders jump through hoops, didn’t handle large files, and stored files in their own expensive storage that wasn’t user-friendly.

Co-founders Matt Townley and Eric Stracke built a branded upload form that delivered files into Google Drive, the cloud storage they already used, with nothing for the client to install. Other businesses asked to use it, and over time, the internal tool became EZ File Drop. It is now used by thousands of teams worldwide, and it is still designed, built, and supported by the same team.

EZ File Drop's answer:

EZ File Drop runs in the browser, so there is nothing to install for you or for the people sending you files.

Uploaded files travel over TLS-encrypted connections into a private, temporary staging area on Amazon S3, and are delivered from there to your connected cloud destination. Connections to Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Box use each provider's own OAuth2 sign-in, so your cloud password never passes through us. The staged copy is removed once delivery is confirmed. Webhooks and a Zapier integration let submission data flow into the rest of your tools.

EZ File Drop's answer:

EZ File Drop is used by thousands of teams worldwide, including government agencies, universities, Fortune 100 brands, non-profits, and community organizations, including Rooted Software, Viewrail, Viasonix, Blue Bear Creative, US Custom Creations, and Between The Lines Translations.