Is this safe for sensitive financial documents?

The files and their names are encrypted on your device before upload, and the key stays in the link fragment. We store only ciphertext, in the EU, and delete it after the link expires.

Does my accountant need an account to open the files?

No. They open the link and decrypt in their browser. Firms that collect documents at scale can use ShieldFive’s encrypted intake instead.

Send documents to your accountant, encrypted

Payslips, invoices, ID scans, bank statements — the files you send an accountant are exactly the ones you don’t want a transfer service reading or retaining. Email attachments and ordinary file-senders both leave a readable copy behind.

Send files encrypted

With ShieldFive Send, the documents are encrypted in your browser first. Your accountant opens the link and decrypts locally. If they use ShieldFive to collect documents regularly, the same zero-knowledge model runs the whole intake.

Your whole financial year, sealed

Payslips, statements and ID scans are encrypted on your device before upload, under a key that travels only in the link fragment. The service moving your tax documents has no way to read them, and neither does anyone who breaks into its storage.

“Payslip-March.pdf” is a disclosure

Filenames say a lot about what you are sending. Yours are encrypted alongside the files, together with any message you attach, so the metadata we hold is opaque rather than a summary of your finances.

EU-hosted, no tracking

Ciphertext is stored in the EU, and there are no trackers on the send or download pages. Sending your accountant a document does not also send a third party a record that you did.

Nothing for your accountant to install

No account on either side. They open the link in any browser and it decrypts locally. Firms that collect documents at scale can use ShieldFive’s encrypted intake instead of receiving one-off transfers.

Send a file in seconds

Drop it, share the link, and it’s encrypted before it leaves your device — no account required.

Send files encrypted

Questions

Is this safe for sensitive financial documents?: The files and their names are encrypted on your device before upload, and the key stays in the link fragment. We store only ciphertext, in the EU, and delete it after the link expires.
Does my accountant need an account to open the files?: No. They open the link and decrypt in their browser. Firms that collect documents at scale can use ShieldFive’s encrypted intake instead.