Text + documents
Share a short note or one file per Send, including PDFs, Office files, images, and other file types.
Secure Sharing
For employees sending confidential information—and a separate path when someone needs to send documents back to us.
Recommended for Orion team members
Keep the email simple. Protect what it points to.
Use Bitwarden Send for confidential notes and files. The content is encrypted before upload, and you can restrict who opens it, require a password, set an expiration date, and limit views.
An Orion employee needs a Bitwarden account to create a Send. File Sends and recipient email verification require an eligible paid plan. A recipient opening your link does not need an account. Short text Sends are limited to about 1,000 encrypted characters; use a document for longer text.
Expiration
Set a deletion date so the link stops working. Revoke a Send sooner if plans change.
Extra access check
Require the recipient's email verification or a separately shared password.
Limit views
Set the view limit to one for a one-time link. Check how the service counts text views versus file downloads.
How to send securely
Choose text or a file
Create a new Bitwarden Send. Use Text for a short secret or File for a document of any supported file type.
Set access controls
Set the shortest practical deletion date. Choose a specific recipient or a strong password, then set Limit views to 1 when appropriate.
Send only the link
Copy the Send link into your ordinary email. Do not paste the sensitive content or attach the original document.
Share the password separately
If you selected password protection, give the password by phone or another trusted channel—not in the same email as the link.
For documents larger than Bitwarden Send permits
Proton guide Use a protected, expiring Proton Drive link instead. It supports password protection and expiration, but does not provide the same one-view limit.
Someone needs to send files to us?
An employee should create a separate file-request link for that person, with an expiration date, and send it directly to them. A Bitwarden Send link only lets them read or download—it cannot accept an upload. We recommend an encrypted Tresorit File Request for this inbound workflow once an Orion account is configured. We have not enabled a public upload link.
Do not reuse one open upload link for multiple people or put private documents into the ordinary website contact form. Verify unexpected files with the sender before opening them.
“One-time” means the link can stop serving content after an access. It cannot prevent screenshots, copies, downloads, forwarding, or access by someone who gets the link and password first. Use recipient verification for high-risk material.