How to — Links settings on Sharedocview.com to get email leads, allow download or not, watermarks…

Vincenzo Belpiede
sharedocview
Published in
4 min readJan 8, 2022

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One of the reasons we built Sharedocview.com is because existing document sharing solutions were not offering enough options to share docs via links.

So we built the most powerful link creation tool for documents in the world!

Below are all the possible alternatives, let us know if there is anything else you’d like to see in the comments or on the live chat on ShareDocView.com

1. No email required

(Links Viewable by Anyone but Download is NOT allowed)

1. No email required — (Links Viewable by Anyone but Download is NOT allowed)

…So viewers will see your document right away like in this link

https://app.sharedocview.com/visualizer/61d977af5cf4e30466900a03

p.s. in case you are wondering you CAN personalize the logo top left, the color and even the URL (Link) by upgrading to the Premium plan

2. Require Email to view

(Creates a beautiful landing page)

2. Require Email to view

Viewers will see a landing page like the one below where they must enter an email to view the content or just sign in one click with their Google account :)

We don’t think there is anyone in the industry that has Google 1-tap sign in implemented…we are the first :)

https://app.sharedocview.com/visualizer/61d978365cf4e30466900a05

You can add more details for the landing page by clicking on the pencil icon top right in the document view as you can see below:

Add more details for the landing page by clicking on the pencil icon top right in the document view

…you can add Title, Tagline, Subtitle, Description

so that you can add Title, Tagline, Subtitle, Description

3 — Email required to view + Download Allowed

3 — Email required to view + Download Allowed

Link recipients will still see the landing page first

4 — No Email required to view + Allow Download

Basically a Public link

4 — No Email required to view + Allow Download

5 . Email required to Download

Anyone can view it

5 . Email required to Download — Anyone can view it

6. Ask your leads to Verify their emails

Anytime you ask for an email you can ensure it gets verified so 100% of your leads will be real and you won’t get any mickey@disney.com types of emails :)

Ask viewers to verify their emails (they will get an email with a code to view the document)

7. Get email notifications

for each download or visit

Get email notifications…for each download or visit

8. Enable Watermark (Premium 👑)

Add a watermark (ex. your company or professional logo) on all documents to increase the level of security of security of your documents

Configure and add your own watermark here (https://app.sharedocview.com/profile/branding)

You can configure and add your own watermark here (https://app.sharedocview.com/profile/branding)

Here is an example of this Blog Post (saved as a PDF) with our logo as a watermark.

Here is an example of this Blog Post (saved as a PDF) with our logo as a watermark.

9. Set Password (Premium Feature)

Get extra security and confidentiality

9. Set Password (Premium Feature) — Get extra security and confidentiality

10. Change link settings Later

Go to document view → click on the 3 dots to see options → Click on Settings

10. Change link settings Later: Go to document view → click on the 3 dots to see options → Click on Settings

Think about your use case and recipients to figure out which link settings are the right ones for which individual recipient or marketing channels.

Write us on the Live Chat on ShareDocView.com with any questions and ideas

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Vincenzo Belpiede
sharedocview

🇮🇹Italian 🇺🇸American — Tech Entrepreneur passionate about SaaS & remote tech talent — Lived in 9 countries 3 continents— California / Europe @stellartalents