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What is Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform?

SFTP was never made for the Cloud. We changed that. Couchdrop is your Cloud SFTP, File Automation and File Ingestion platform. Through acting as your cloud and file server gateway, secure web portal, secure pipe between systems or clients (B2B) to your cloud storage backend. Couchdrop is secure compliant with SOC2 and HIPAA. Couchdrop saves time by automating file workflows and ensuring its scalable infrastructure removes the headache for your engineering team. Couchdrop's detailed enterprise grade auditing and logging provides more granularity and traceability on your file transfers and file operations. Couchdrop supports the likes of SharePoint, Dropbox, S3, Azure Blob storages which provides you full control and visibility of your data at rest and means Couchdrop does not store or sync data at any stage of the process. Real-time file transfer like it should be.

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Couchdrop turns your cloud storage into an SFTP/FTP server without the hassle. Couchdrop is fully cloud managed and can be up and running in less than a minute. Finance and Healthcare companies worldwide use Couchdrop to transfer files securely between themselves and external parties.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Couchdrop SFTP was built for the cloud - and any cloud.

Couchdrop is cloud first, where it makes working with storage simple and secure, while facilitating the transfer of files between platforms. Couchdrop itself does not store your data, but rather provides multiple methods (SFTP, FTP/S, Inboxes, HTTPS) to ingest data to a platform and then enables you take actions through automation (PGP, copying files across platforms, expiry, etc.).

Couchdrop is a fully hosted and secure platform and at no stage does Couchdrop store files or data as its streamed directly to your end location and processed completely in memory. Along with SOC2 compliance and with points of presence located globally it meets security and compliance requirements regardless if you are in finance, insurance, health, or B2B.

It's easy to get started, no need to talk to sales, you can sign up for a free 14-day trial (no credit card).


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Couchdrop
Year Founded
2017
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Christchurch, Canterbury
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Bobby R.
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Bobby R.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Secure, Knowledgeable, Integration Friendly"
Staff is friendly and knowledgeable. Platform is simple to use yet complex enough to fit all needs.
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4.5 out of 5
"Couchdrop allows us to transfer files while leveraging already existing cloud storage."
The ability to leverage already existing cloud storage.
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Scott S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Just does what it says on the tin"
Couchdrop gives us the flexibility to use whatever back-end storage provider that we want. For example, we are using an S3-based service with immut...
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Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform Demo - Couchdrop Virtual File System
Connect and access all of your storage platforms and provide simple ingestion to anywhere.
Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform Demo - Connecting storage platform
A range of cloud storage platforms can be connected and integrated for your file transfer needs.
Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform Demo - File Automation Example
Automatically pull files from a remote location and copy them across to your cloud storage while taking further actions such as PGP encryption/decryption, compression, rename, etc.
Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform Demo - Auditing and Reporting
Couchdrop provides extensive auditing and reporting on all operations within the platform, whether it's a file being uploaded, a workflow or an administration event. These can also be sent to a third party logging platform.
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Bobby R.
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What do you like best about Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform?

Staff is friendly and knowledgeable. Platform is simple to use yet complex enough to fit all needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform?

Honestly, everything went without a hitch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

Secure delivery of files and documents

Secure platform to share ideas with internal and external users

Integration with our many 3rd party vendors

Additional security features such as MFA, and PGP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform?

Couchdrop takes a legacy method of transfering files and puts a modern spin on it. I love how I can literally put an SFTP front end on basically ANY cloud storage platform. They have support for sooo many cloud storage providers. PLUS, for the people concerned about compliances like HIPPA, NIST, etc. Couchdrop, unlike many other cloud based SFTP services, never stores any of your data in their servers. They write the data DIRECTLY to your preferred cloud storage platform with NO staging area and no intermediate storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform?

Honestly, I struggle to find something with this platform that I don't love. But if I had to pick one thing, I'd say that Couchdrop's automation component leaves a little to be desired at the moment. But to their credit, when I spoke to one of their sales reps about this, they readily accepted the feedback and they told me this is something they are actively persuing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

Couchdrop is literally the only solution out there providing an SFTP front end for our modern cloud storage platforms (i.e. AWS S3, Box, Google Drive, Dropbox, SharePoint, etc.)

It takes 60 seconds to spin up a trial account and maybe 10 minutes to configure your cloud storage integration. And just like that you're sending files via SFTP and saving them DIRECTLY into SharePoint or whatever cloud storage you're using. This has made my job so much easier.

Not to mention, most other providers that offer similar services are exponentially more expensive and they lack the ability to write directly to your cloud storage and have to rely on intermediate storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Marcus H.
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What do you like best about Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform?

Couchdrop integrates seamlessly with our own cloud storage provider, creating instant efficiency gains for our internal employees while simultaneously making uploads simple & easy, with full security for our clients. Additionally, their API will enable us to integrate upload portal creation and management within our own SaaS app dashboard for our clients, even further tightening the integration between our app, our clients' UX, any cloud storage provider we use, and also improving internal efficiencies also. The people I've interacted with at Couchdrop so far have been extremely friendly, helpful, and a joy to work with as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform?

So far, nothing, Couchdrop's product offers all of the features we needed and more - not to mention it was quick & easy to hit the ground running with their services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

Beyond just needing an upload portal that support SFTP, Couchdrop's service integrates with our own cloud storage provider, provides full data security, has API capabilities for further integration, and most importantly makes the upload process simple for both our clients as well as improving efficiency for our internal employees by integrating with our own existing cloud storage service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Skyler Y.
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I like that it connects to many storage locations like Google Drive, S3, or hosted storage and includes automation for handling files as they are uploaded. And all at an affordable price! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform?

It's a relatively young product, and parts of it are unrefined. However, since we joined two years ago, I've seen the interface and reliability improve by leaps and bounds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

We need to move data from legacy providers that only export XLSX, and get it into locations where we can pick it up with services like Fivetran for ingestion. Couchdrop provides the magic link in the middle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform?

The product has a clean, simple interface that makes creating new internal or external SFTP connections a breeze. The support staff is extremely knowledgable about their product and, timezone dependant, very prompt to respond to queries or questions about the product. You have the capibilites to easily connect to most major storage solutions and automate SFTP processes in a few quick clicks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform?

The product seems to still be in active development and during the time period of use we have seen noticeable changes to the UI without notifications about updates being made. Also with this being a new product there is some features that are not currently available the prevent creating specific SFTP Connections. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

The requirement for an on site SFTP solution, being able to host our SFTP in the Cloud lesses our need for physical equipment and the costs associated with them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Couchdrop gives us the flexibility to use whatever back-end storage provider that we want. For example, we are using an S3-based service with immutability turned on, so we can support legacy protocols with the latest in data protection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform?

Would love to see some more MFA methods backed in, like TOTP and FIDO, to improve login security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

As mentioned above, its enabling us to support legacy protocols (like FTP) without compromising newer features like S3 immutability for data protection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform?

The ability to leverage already existing cloud storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform?

User security controls could be stronger, such as requiring the use of 2FA. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ability to transfer files on a platform that connects back to enterprise storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cameron G.
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What do you like best about Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform?

CouchDrop has helped me scale and grow my business exponentially. Without this tool I would not be where I am today. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform?

Nothing. this business provide me everything i need to complete all of my tasks presented to me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

i needed secure way to create users and store them for different trading partners and this provided exactly that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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The customer support of couchdrop is very simply excellent. Any time we had an issue with anything, they went above and beyond to help us and even put in place custom items specifically for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform?

There is nothing about couchdrop I dislike or would change. If anything, the UI for the administration of new users could be a little straightforward, but that is just being extremely nit-picky as how it is currently is clear and concise, and I have not had any issues with it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

It increases the flexibility of additional team members to administer portions of our SFTP and allows our customers access to their directories without the need for developer intervention. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform?

Couchdrop allows our newer tech stack based on real-time events to work with our customer's older tech stacks that are dependent on SFTP. Additionally, it's great that I don't have to manage an SFTP server, SSH keys, and training of our teams to interact with data we receive from our customers. We can rely on Dropbox to manage storage, backups and authorization within our company and use Couchdrop for the customers to interact with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform?

There is not too I do not like about Couchdrop. Sometimes the UI gets in the way when configuring new users and storage locations; however I know the team is working hard on new features and is super responsive to feedback. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Couchdrop - Cloud SFTP and File Automation Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

* Allow customer facing data teams to interact with data through modern tools like Dropbox, while some of our customers still rely on SFTP

* We have several programs that are AWS Lambda functions that run off of S3 events. Couchdrop allows for use of these tools without need for polling an SFTP server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.