An alternative to WeTransfer for confidential files.

WeTransfer is the quickest way to get a large file to somebody, and for ordinary files it is fine. It is a Dutch company, owned since 2024 by the Italian company Bending Spoons, so this is not a story about American law. Binadit Receive is made for the files you would not put in a public transfer service: it encrypts them in the sender's browser, on a page at your own address, and only your own colleagues can receive.

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Provider: WeTransfer
Headquarters: Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Jurisdiction: The Netherlands
Legal regime: EU law (GDPR)

What is different from WeTransfer

WeTransfer documents that files are encrypted during transfer and at rest, and that files uploaded from the European Union are stored in the EU. That is sound for ordinary files. For case files, payroll data or identity documents, offices want more: encryption before the file leaves the sender's computer, a password that travels separately and that nobody can recover, the certainty that a file can only go to an address on your own domain, and an overview of every transfer with the option to revoke it. That is what Receive does.

WeTransfer, and what replaces it in Binadit Workspace

Binadit Receive is part of Binadit Drive: a page on your own address where clients, counterparties and applicants hand you files.

WeTransfer service	What we run instead	Engineering note
Receiving files from outside	Binadit Receive: the sender opens your link, chooses your colleague and drops files or a whole folder.	No account, no app and no attachment in the mail.
Encryption	Names and contents are encrypted in the sender's browser before upload. The server only ever stores ciphertext.	It uses the open age format. The password is never stored or mailed and cannot be recovered by an administrator, or by us.
Large files	Up to 100 files and 10 GB per transfer, uploaded in pieces that resume after a dropped connection.	A whole folder can be dropped at once.
Retention	Kept for 1 to 30 days, 14 by default, and then deleted automatically.	You choose the period.
Who can receive	Only addresses on your own domains. A sender cannot send to a private address or to a typo.	Your administrator lists the domains.
Oversight	Your administrator sees every transfer with its size, expiry and delivery status, and can revoke it.	File names stay encrypted, for the administrator too.
Sending files to others	A Drive sharing link to a file or a folder that expires when you choose, 30 days at most.	Part of Binadit Workspace, with the same login as your mail.
Licence	Included with Binadit Drive. No licence per user or per sender.	It works whether or not you sync files with Drive.

Receiving files from outside

What we run instead: Binadit Receive: the sender opens your link, chooses your colleague and drops files or a whole folder.
Engineering note: No account, no app and no attachment in the mail.

Encryption

What we run instead: Names and contents are encrypted in the sender's browser before upload. The server only ever stores ciphertext.
Engineering note: It uses the open age format. The password is never stored or mailed and cannot be recovered by an administrator, or by us.

Large files

What we run instead: Up to 100 files and 10 GB per transfer, uploaded in pieces that resume after a dropped connection.
Engineering note: A whole folder can be dropped at once.

Retention

What we run instead: Kept for 1 to 30 days, 14 by default, and then deleted automatically.
Engineering note: You choose the period.

Who can receive

What we run instead: Only addresses on your own domains. A sender cannot send to a private address or to a typo.
Engineering note: Your administrator lists the domains.

Oversight

What we run instead: Your administrator sees every transfer with its size, expiry and delivery status, and can revoke it.
Engineering note: File names stay encrypted, for the administrator too.

Sending files to others

What we run instead: A Drive sharing link to a file or a folder that expires when you choose, 30 days at most.
Engineering note: Part of Binadit Workspace, with the same login as your mail.

Licence

What we run instead: Included with Binadit Drive. No licence per user or per sender.
Engineering note: It works whether or not you sync files with Drive.

How we migrate off WeTransfer

Transfers are temporary by design, so there is no archive to move out of WeTransfer. Switching means your clients get a new address to send to.

Before the move

Receive is set up on your domain

Receive comes with Binadit Drive. We set up your domains, the colleagues who may receive and the retention period with you.
Side by side

Your Receive address goes where the old link was

On your website, in mail signatures and in engagement letters. Transfers that are still running in the old service simply expire there.
Switch day

The old service is switched off

Nothing has to be migrated. You cancel the old subscription once the last running transfer has expired.

Binadit Workspace is quoted per company, because the number of mailboxes, the storage and a possible server of your own differ each time. Ask for a demo and you get a quote with it.

Frequently asked questions

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Is WeTransfer not safe?

WeTransfer encrypts files during transfer and at rest, and for ordinary files that is fine. Receive adds what confidential files need: encryption in the sender's browser, recipients limited to your own domains and a record of every transfer.

Can we also send large files to clients?

Yes. From Drive you share a file or a folder with a link that expires when you choose, 30 days at most.

What if the sender loses the password?

Then the transfer is unreadable, for you and for us. The password is never stored, never mailed and cannot be reset. The sender sends the files again.

Does the sender need an account?

No. A link on your domain is enough. The sender opens it in a browser, chooses your colleague and drops the files.

Is Binadit Workspace only this one product?

No. One login covers mail, calendar and contacts, Drive for your files, Receive for getting files from outsiders safely, Office for documents in the browser, Meet for video meetings and Book for appointments. Everything runs on servers in the Netherlands that Binadit operates itself.

What does Binadit Workspace cost?

Binadit Workspace is quoted per company, because the number of mailboxes, the storage and a possible server of your own differ each time. Ask for a demo and you get a quote with it.

Is Binadit ISO 27001 or NEN 7510 certified?

The data centre we host in is ISO 27001 and NEN 7510 certified. Binadit itself, as a company, does not hold these certifications. If your own certification requires a certified supplier rather than a certified data centre, tell us before you decide, so you can check that with your auditor first.

Binadit Workspace is more than this one piece

Mail, calendar, files, documents, meetings and scheduling work together and share one login. These are the other pieces.

Plan your exit from WeTransfer.

30-minute scoping call. We map your stack against EU-only alternatives, estimate the migration effort, and tell you whether it is the right call.

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