# Transfer App ### Welcome to the Transfer App Documentation Space! Explore how the Transfer App can add needed business processes to file movement. Transfer App is a tool to allow business users to upload data to Snowflake. Transfer App is an alternative to a common IT pattern of: Secured File Share + IT Polling Job + File Maintenance Script + ETL + Reporting.\ Which is difficult for end users to understand, and difficult for IT to support. #### Transfer App provides many benefits, including: * A Robust User Experience * Familiar browser-based solution for file submission and reporting * Secured by Snowflake authentication and role authorization * Immediate feedback to user on result of upload * Supports both Excel and CSV files * History of files that were uploaded * Ability to download previously uploaded files #### Business process for file transfers: * Provides audit trail of what user uploaded a file, and when * Logs all file movement activity * Maintains a copy of every file that has been uploaded * Custom reporting of upload activity from shared views * Secured by Snowflake roles * End users do not need insert privileges on Snowflake tables * All files are stored outside the application in the account's own databases * All data remains in the customer's snowflake account, and never transits through a 3rd party --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://transfer-app.gitbook.io/transfer-app-docs/readme.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.