Branded file transfer, on your own domain

Why brand your file transfers?

For a photographer, a studio or an agency, the download page is part of the delivery. It is the moment the client discovers the work. A page with your images and your name feels like your service; a generic page feels like a workaround. Branding also helps with trust: a link on your own domain looks expected, while an unknown link can look like phishing to a cautious client or a corporate spam filter.

What you can customise

How to set up your branded download page

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   Step 1

   Upgrade to Pro

   Branding is part of Transfr Pro, at €15 per month or €144 per year. See the pricing.

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   Step 2

   Open the Brand settings

   In your dashboard, open Brand. Upload your logo and favicon, write the search text, and add up to five backgrounds.

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   Step 3

   Choose your address

   Activate a subdomain such as studio-name.transfr.me, or add your own domain and create the two DNS records shown (a CNAME, plus a TXT record that proves you own the domain).

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   Step 4

   Send as usual

   Every new transfer uses your branding automatically. Your clients see your page, at your address.

Subdomain or custom domain?

The TXT record is there for security: it stops anyone from pointing a domain they do not own at their account. Once verified, your dashboard and transfers are reachable from your own address, and you can remove or change the domain at any time from the same settings. Pages on your branded addresses are kept out of search engines, so a client’s delivery never shows up in Google.

Branded links that clients trust

Phishing emails often imitate file-sharing notifications, so careful clients and corporate filters are right to be suspicious of unfamiliar download links. A few habits make your deliveries easy to recognise:

• Match your domains. If your email is anna@studio-north.com, a download page at transfer.studio-north.com is instantly credible.
• Keep the same look every time. Clients learn what your delivery page looks like and notice when something is off.
• Say it in your own words. A short personal message in the transfer (“Here are the 240 selects from Saturday”) beats a generic notification.
• Use a password for sensitive files, shared by another channel, so a forwarded link is not enough on its own.

What your client sees

Your client clicks the link and lands on your page: your background fills the screen, your logo sits at the top, and your files are listed with previews for photos, videos, PDFs and documents. They can watch a video, flip through images, leave comments if you enabled them, and download one file or everything as a single ZIP with your folders kept. Nothing to install, no account to create, on a phone or a computer.

Branding for teams

Pro includes Transfr Teams for up to 10 people. The team shares one brand (logo, backgrounds, subdomain or company domain), so every transfer sent by any member looks the same, and a team console lets admins manage members and roles. It is the simplest way for an agency to stop each employee from sending files through a different service. More in file sharing for agencies.

What else comes with Pro

Who uses branded transfers?

• Photographers deliver galleries with a hero image from the shoot as background: see file transfer for photographers.
• Videographers put a short loop of the film behind the download button: see sending videos to clients.
• Agencies send everything from transfer.agency-name.com, with the same look for every account manager.
• Freelancers use a subdomain to look established from day one: see file transfer for freelancers.

Branding works with every other option: password protection, expiry dates, download limits, comments and end-to-end encryption all behave the same on your branded page.