File Uploads

Store, export, and share files collected with your Basin forms.

Accepting Files

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Enabling forms powered by Basin to accept file uploads is really easy. You simply have to add enctype="multipart/form-data" and accept-charset="UTF-8" to your form tag and you're all set.

Notice

We support file uploads of up to 100MB per submission.

Single input example

<form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="https://usebasin.com/f/1a2b3c4d5e6f" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="POST">
...
<input type="file" name="resume" ></input>
...
</form>

Multi-input example

<form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="https://usebasin.com/f/1a2b3c4d5e6f" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="POST">
...
<input type="file" name="resume" ></input>
<input type="file" name="cover-letter" ></input>
<input type="file" name="application" ></input>
...
</form>

Multi-attachment input example

Your file input must include name="attachments[]" multiple for this use case to work.

<form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="https://usebasin.com/f/1a2b3c4d5e6f" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="POST">
...
<input type="file" name="attachments[]" multiple></input>
...
</form>

Virus Scanning for attachments

For Premium users and above, all attachments are automatically scanned for viruses and malware using ClamAV You'll get a warning if we detect anything suspicious with attachments submitted to your forms.