Share your report as a secure link

Know the report was read, not just delivered

An emailed report tells you nothing after send. The attachment may have been opened, printed, forwarded to the wrong person or left unread until the meeting, and you find out which only when someone asks a question the report answered on page two. A link changes that: a view notification tells you the moment it is opened, and a read receipt gives the reader a "Mark as received" button that records who acknowledged it and when.

That is a different standard of delivery. When the compliance report, the audit findings or the quarterly board pack has a receipt against every name, the "I never saw it" conversation stops happening. And because the confirmation is something the reader chooses to send, it counts as an acknowledgement rather than a tracking pixel firing on a preview.

Controls for confidential reports

• Password-protect the link. A password (Basic) keeps the report to the people you gave it to; a forwarded link without the password opens nothing. Send the link and the password by separate routes if the contents warrant it.
• Self-destruct after a set number of views. The self-destruct is a view limit (Basic), not a date: allow five reads for five recipients and the sixth attempt finds the link gone, with your readership record intact.
• Watermark each copy (Pro). Every page carries the viewer's email or reader ID and a timestamp, on screen and inside any downloaded copy, so a photographed or forwarded page can be traced to its reader.
• No reader IPs, ever. Readers are identified by a pseudonymous ID unless they enter an email, and EveryPage never stores an IP address. Files are encrypted at rest, which makes the security questionnaire a shorter conversation.

Which sections got read (and which got skipped)

A report is rarely read cover to cover, and it helps to know which parts were. Page-by-page analytics (from the Basic plan) show the time spent on every page and the read-through funnel across the document: the executive summary read twice, the methodology skipped, the recommendations open for fourteen minutes. If most readers stop at page six, the next report puts the conclusion before page six.

The same report also tells you who came back. A re-read of the financial appendix the day before the board meeting is a signal worth having. The free plan already records views, readers and time spent per document, so the summary is there before you decide whether you need the page-level detail.