Vela Drop Pro
Five dollars. One page. Paid once.
The free dashboard already tells you who opened your document and how far they got. Pro is for the page that matters — the one you want to keep longer, correct after sending, and control who gets into it.
Free
$0always
- Public link and a private dashboard
- A separate link per recipient, counted separately
- Opens, unique visitors, country, device, browser, referrer
- Your own in-page events, and a read-through figure
- 30 days, then everything is deleted
No account, no card, no trial that quietly ends.
Pro · per page
$5once, for that page
- 90 days instead of 30, analytics included
- Replace the file without changing a single link
- An alert when a recipient you name opens it
- Turn one link off without touching the rest
- A private link per recipient, revoked one at a time
- Decide what a pasted link shows — or shows nothing
- Show someone the numbers without handing over the page
- Allow only the addresses you choose
- Tell a second read from a second reader
- Take a page offline without deleting it
- Ask every reader for a verified email address
Everything in Free is still there. Pro adds; it never takes away.
Pro · monthly
$19a month, every page
- Everything in Pro, on every page you publish
- No decision to make each time you send one
- Unlimited pages, within fair use
- Cancel whenever; your pages live out their 90 days
One person. It covers the pages you publish yourself.
You only pay for the ones that matter…
Most documents never need any of this. Send them, watch the dashboard, let them expire when they have done their job. That part is free, and it stays free however many you send.
Then there is the one that matters. The proposal your client is still opening on the day it expires. The deck with the wrong number on slide four. The document that should only ever reach three named people. You will know the one when you get there — and that is when five dollars is an easy decision.
…until every one of them matters
Five dollars stops being about the money somewhere around the fourth or fifth page. What it costs by then is the decision: is this one worth it, was that one, should I have done the one last week. You end up not buying it for a page that needed it, and finding out afterwards.
The monthly plan is for that. Every page you publish gets everything on this list, and there is nothing to weigh up each time you send one. Unlimited within fair use — the limits are set where ordinary work never meets them.
The price is per person. If a plan turns out to be shared, we charge for each person on it — so if there are a few of you, tell us and we will work something out rather than guess.
Cancel whenever you like — pages you have already published keep their ninety days.
What Pro does
Ninety days, not thirty.
The page stays live three times as long, and the analytics stay with it. Long deals do not fit in a month.
Fix it after you sent it.
Spot the wrong number on slide four and replace the file. Every link you have already sent keeps working and points at the corrected version. No apology email, no second URL.
Know when a name opens it.
Put an alert on the recipients you actually care about rather than on everyone. At most one email a day, however busy the page gets — a summary, not a stream.
Turn one link off.
A deal dies, someone leaves, or a document goes to the wrong address. Disable that one link and leave the rest working. Its statistics stay; only the access stops.
A private link per person.
Paste your list and everyone gets their own unguessable link. Nothing in it says who it was for, and no one holding one can work out anybody else's. Export the lot as CSV or JSON for the mail merge that sends them.
Decide who may open it.
Name the addresses allowed on a link and nobody else gets in. This is the honest answer to forwarding: stop it, rather than find out about it afterwards.
Find out who is reading.
Ask every reader for an address before the page opens. They get a one-time link by email and have to open it, so the list you end up with is people who proved the address — not whatever somebody typed into a box. It is not a lock: anyone willing to give an address gets in. It is a way of knowing who did.
Take it down without losing it.
Deleting a page is the only way to stop people reading it, and it takes the file and every number with it. Switch it off instead: the link says the page is not available, and everything you had is waiting when you put it back. Switching it back on never needs Pro.
A second read, or a second reader.
Six opens can be six people or one person six times, and without help nothing can tell them apart. Pro can, if you switch it on. There is a cookie involved, and it is your choice.
More about who bit.
Operating system, language and device brand alongside the breakdowns you already get. Useful when the question is which kind of person responded, not just how many.
Take the numbers with you.
Export any panel as CSV or JSON. They are your numbers; you should be able to leave with them.
Showing someone the numbers
The link to your dashboard is your key to the page. Whoever holds it can delete it, replace the file, and move the recovery address to themselves — so until now, showing a colleague how a document was doing meant handing them all of that.
Pro adds a second link to the same dashboard that shows everything and changes nothing. No adding tags, no replacing the file, no deleting the page, and no sight of the private links you sent to individual people. Replace it or switch it off whenever you like.
What a pasted link shows
Slack, Teams, LinkedIn and the rest fetch a link the moment somebody pastes it, to draw a preview card. Every Vela Drop link unfurls with the page's title, on every plan, free included.
Pro lets you write the card yourself — your own title, a line under it, an image. And it lets you turn the card off, which is the part worth paying for: a workspace that never fetches your document never keeps a copy of what it scraped. For a term sheet dropped into a channel of forty people, that is the difference between a link and a leak.
Your file is not touched either way. The card is a separate reply we send to the chat client, which was never going to render your page.
About the cookies
Nothing in Vela Drop is counted with a cookie, on any plan. Visitor numbers come from a hash that changes every day, which is why they are described as approximate. Two features can set one, both of them off until you switch them on, and neither of them on the free plan.
Restricting a page to named addresses sets one when a reader proves who they are, so that proving it once does not mean proving it on every click. It lasts twelve hours, lives on that page's own address, and counts nothing at all.
Telling a returning reader from a new one is the other, and it is the one that removes the tilde from your numbers. It holds a random identifier and nothing derived from the reader — no address, no fingerprint — it lives only on that page's own address, so it cannot follow anyone to another document, not even another Vela Drop page, and it is deleted with the page.
If you switch that one on, you are the one setting it, on the document you published. Where the law requires that readers are told or asked — in the EU and UK it generally does — that responsibility is yours, not ours. We say so plainly at the moment you enable it, and our privacy page spells out the whole arrangement.
Your HTML is untouched either way. These are headers on the response, not a change to your file.