Folder storage — who pays
How much space you get, what happens above the quota, and how "recipient pays" works.
Transfers expire and free up their own space. Folders don't. That makes folder storage the one place in WeGotFiles where the amount of data affects the price.
What's included
- Free account — 5 GB
- Pro — 50 GB
Space is measured on what is stored at any given time, not on how much you upload over a month. Delete something and the space is freed immediately.
Above the quota
A free account can never end up in debt. If there's no space, the upload is refused — you get no bill for something you didn't order.
With Pro you can go past the included quota and pay for the excess. Three things are worth knowing about how it's calculated:
It's measured on the month's peak. We look at the highest level your storage reached during the previous calendar month — not the average, and not the level on some arbitrary day.
It's rounded up to whole 100 GB. You pay per started 100 GB block above the quota.
The price drops in steps. As with seats the discount is marginal: it's the blocks above each threshold that get cheaper, not all of them.
- NOK 20 per 100 GB up to 500 GB
- NOK 18 per 100 GB from 500 GB to 1 TB
- NOK 12 per 100 GB from 1 TB to 2 TB
- NOK 10 per 100 GB from 2 TB to 5 TB
The spending cap
You decide how much storage can be billed. The default for Pro is 500 GB, and you can choose between 500 GB, 1 TB, 2 TB and 5 TB under Share folders.
The cap is a brake, not a warning: once it's reached, new uploads are refused rather than letting the bill keep growing.
The owner pays
The rule is deliberately simple: whoever owns the folder pays for what it holds. There is no separate "who pays" setting alongside ownership — precisely so the two can never point at different people.
If you share a folder with others, you still pay for the space. The fact that someone else can upload into it doesn't change who owns it.
When the recipient should pay
Sometimes it's the recipient who should end up with the data, and with the bill — an archive you hand over to a client, for instance.
In that case tick Recipient pays storage when you create the folder, and give their email address. Note that you own the folder right up until they accept, so until then the files count against your own quota.
The recipient gets a link, and sees what the folder holds and what it would cost them per month before deciding. If they accept, they take the folder over: they become the owner, the space counts against their quota, the files stop expiring, and you keep write access right up until they revoke it.
The takeover is refused if the arithmetic doesn't work out. A free account that would land above its quota has to upgrade to Pro first, and a paying account that would break its own spending cap has to raise it first. Nobody inherits a bill they didn't agree to.