WeTransfer Revolutionizes File Sharing: Sell Your Work Instantly

WeTransfer launched tools to sell files directly on the network to address the 87% of content providers who reported late or lost payments, according to research.

This new feature lets artists quickly make money without chasing payments or maintaining invoices, as reported by TechCrunch. WeTransfer users could also avoid expensive sales websites and online stores.

Stripe powers WeTransfer's integrated payment system, which is available globally. The company guaranteed no further expenses for subscribers beyond Stripe payment processing fees. However, users without WeTransfer's subscription plans can use integrated payments for free until June. The functionality supports over 100 currencies based on Stripe's onboarding choices.

Here's How It Works

Creators may upload a file and specify a price in the new "request payment" area when establishing a folder. After setting the price, they may share the WeTransfer link with clients or purchasers, who must pay before downloading.

WeTransfer CEO Alexandar Vassilev noted, "Millions of creatives already use our platform daily to interact with clients, fans, and share important work, but too often get tripped up by chasing final payments long after the work has been completed."

He also said, "Bringing payments into our product ecosystem is a major new chapter in our mission to boost the convenience and earning potential of our creative user base while removing common barriers through secure and beautifully simple technology."

The integration translates all WeTransfer-supported languages, including Danish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Norwegian, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, and Turkish.

According to the company's blog, with this new WeTransfer feature, photographers, designers, artists, singers, and aspiring creators may easily sell their work with WeTransfer and Stripe. Creators do not need a website or storefront because this long-term partnership includes payment functions in the workflow. WeTransfer is also waiving platform fees to simplify and democratize payments.

WeTransfer previously offered portals and reviews to let teams collaborate, get feedback, and deliver finished goods to clients. These efforts improve the creative process and help creators commercialize their abilities.

Empowering Creatives

This development follows WeTransfer's latest research project 'Networked Worlds' in early April.

'Networked Worlds' explores early 21st-century worlding as a creative method. Worlding is a creative activity to re-imagine and prototype alternate futures during crises in reality, agency, and sense-making systems, according to the Netherlands-based company's media release.

Worlding has become a vital approach for artists and creatives to explore alternate futures and reveal contemporary circumstances for change by acknowledging the norms and power dynamics of dominant narratives and infrastructures.

Worlding is a communal endeavor to create emergent worlds, unlike worldbuilding, which includes master designers creating plausible imagined realms. Using AI, blockchain, photogrammetry, 3D engines, and traditional rituals, this method creates compelling micro-systemic worlds.

The memo included concepts from WeTransfer's Open Call earlier this year, which received over 380 applications globally. A rigorous selection procedure showcased a variety of world-based creative initiatives, leading to the selection of 10 to collaborate on the memo.