Keep your files on Spike: a library you control, paid through Stripe

Creators look for a workspace that does not throw the work away. Email crushes the ZIP. Chat compresses the still. A transfer dies on Tuesday. A drive is a room in your house that collaborators never leave. Spike is the shelf you own: upload once, keep the folder, decide who sees a preview, and optionally put a price on the same URL.

That control is the product. Private until you share. Public if you want a door anyone can open. Password if the people are named. For sale if they still owe you. Encrypted in transit and at rest. Not used to train public generative AI. Cards through Stripe, so buyer and seller both sit on rails that already know refunds and chargebacks. Share large files securely is the send. This page is why the files are still there in March.

The folder stays in your library

A Spike folder is not a package that deletes itself when a clock hits zero. You upload into an encrypted folder. It sits in your account until you remove it. The art director who joins in March opens the same URL. You replace a file in place. You do not rebuild a drop because someone was on holiday.

Be precise about Free. Share links last three days. Files on Free follow 30-day retention. That is a plan limit, not a transfer costume Spike forgot to mention. Pro and Business leave the link up until you turn it off, and they do not run that per-file timer. If the job must outlive the weekend, upgrade. If you are testing a first pack, Free is still a real library for three days, which is already longer than many pipes.

• The library is yours until you delete it.
• Guest drops on the homepage are not kept until you sign in.
• Free: 3-day links, 30-day file retention, 1 GB.
• Pro and Business: links until you shut them, 250 GB or 1 TB.

Private, public, password, or for sale

You set the door per folder. Nothing is public until you turn on a link. Hidden is a URL you can send without putting the pack on the open web. Password is for a named set. Public is a door anyone with the link can open. Selling is optional: the same folder can be a free review today and a priced unlock tomorrow. You do not stand up a shop theme to change your mind.

Encrypted, and not a public AI training set

Files are stored with encryption in transit and at rest. Access is behind your account. Nothing is on the open web until you enable a share and choose how open that door is. No method of storage is 100% secure. Spike does not pretend otherwise. The extra versus a consumer transfer is the combination: a private library, a treated preview, and a door you can shut.

Spike does not use your Content to train public generative AI models. That sentence is in the privacy policy on purpose. A photographer's unpublished set, a designer's unreleased type, a musician's unmastered stems are not a dataset. They are work. You keep them, you share them, you sell them. You do not donate them to a model.

Payments run through Stripe, not a Spike wallet

When you sell, the card never belongs in a homemade checkout. Connect Stripe once. Price the folder in pounds. The buyer pays on Stripe Checkout and comes back to the same page with the originals unlocked. Funds land in your connected Stripe account and pay out on Stripe's usual bank schedule. You are the seller of record. Refunds are issued from your Stripe dashboard. Chargebacks are handled on that connected account. Spike marks the purchase when Stripe reports it.

That split is safer for both sides than an invoice in one tab and a ZIP in another, or a platform that holds the money until it feels like paying you. The buyer gets card rails, receipts, and a dispute path they already know. The seller gets payouts into a Stripe account they can open without asking Spike for a balance screenshot. Spike still takes a plan fee from the payout: 5% on Free, 1% on Pro, 0% on Business. Stripe's card fee still applies. Honesty about the cut is part of the same safety: you know who took what.

1. 01

   Sign in so the folder is a workspace, not a guest drop

   The homepage can take a file. Your library is what keeps it.

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   Set the door

   Hidden, password, or public. Treat the unpaid view. Password the share when the people are named.

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   Connect Stripe only if they still owe you

   Then price the folder. How to sell digital files is that switch. Sharing can stay free.

Keep the work. Set the door. Let Stripe take the card. You should not need a second product for any of those sentences.

Photographers, designers, musicians, and filmmakers already live this way: one folder per job, a preview they chose, a link that still opens, a price only when money is due. The cheapest rent is the fee note. This page is the reason the files are still yours after the fee is paid.