{"id":586,"date":"2026-07-16T11:06:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vaclaimhelper.com\/blog\/?p=586"},"modified":"2026-07-16T11:09:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:09:25","slug":"introducing-dropbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vaclaimhelper.com\/blog\/blog\/2026\/07\/16\/introducing-dropbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Dropbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Introducing Dropbox: A Secure, Self-Service Way for Clients to Get Their Documents<\/h1>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever emailed a veteran their C&amp;P exam results, a decision letter, or a signed fee agreement, you already know the problem: once that email is sent, it&#8217;s gone. It sits in an inbox forever, you can&#8217;t revoke it if you sent the wrong version, and if the client&#8217;s account ever gets compromised, so does everything you ever sent them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dropbox<\/strong> is a new feature in VCH that fixes this. It gives every firm a permanent, secure, self-service page where your clients can verify who they are and download exactly the documents you&#8217;ve chosen to share with them: nothing more, nothing less.<\/p>\n<h2>How it works for your clients<\/h2>\n<p>Every firm gets one durable link:<\/p>\n<p><code>vaclaimhelper.com\/vch\/dropbox\/{your-firm-id}<\/code><\/p>\n<p>You can post this link anywhere: your website, your email signature, a text message, an intake packet. It never expires and never changes, so you only have to share it once.<\/p>\n<p>When a veteran or claimant visits the link, they&#8217;ll see your firm&#8217;s logo and branding, and a short form asking for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First and last name<\/li>\n<li>Date of birth<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>last 4 digits<\/strong> of their Social Security number<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. No account, no password to remember, no app to install. After a quick spam check (the same kind of &#8220;I&#8217;m not a robot&#8221; challenge you&#8217;ve seen on other sites), they&#8217;re shown a list of exactly the documents you&#8217;ve flagged for them, ready to download.<\/p>\n<h2>How it works for you<\/h2>\n<p>Flagging a document takes one click. From any case&#8217;s <strong>Documents<\/strong> tab, you&#8217;ll see a new <strong>Dropbox<\/strong> column. Check the box next to any document and it&#8217;s instantly available on that client&#8217;s Dropbox page. Uncheck it, and it&#8217;s gone. There&#8217;s also a <strong>Copy Dropbox Link<\/strong> button right there so you can grab your firm&#8217;s link without hunting for it.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the entire workflow. No separate upload step, no re-sending. If a document is already in the case, flagging it for Dropbox takes seconds.<\/p>\n<h2>Why this is more secure than email<\/h2>\n<p>We built Dropbox around a simple principle: the link itself isn&#8217;t a secret, so the real protection has to come from <em>verifying the person<\/em>, not from hiding the URL.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Identity verification:<\/strong> name, date of birth, and last-4 SSN together are checked against your firm&#8217;s actual case records before anyone sees a document list.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Automatic lockout:<\/strong> five incorrect attempts locks that person out of Dropbox entirely. You&#8217;ll see it under Admin \u2192 Dropbox Lockouts, along with a one-click Unlock button once you&#8217;ve confirmed with your client who they are.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Short sessions:<\/strong> access expires automatically after 25 minutes of inactivity, so a shared or public computer doesn&#8217;t leave the door open behind them.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nothing lingers:<\/strong> downloads are served through short-lived links that expire within minutes, rather than a permanent file sitting in an inbox forever. If you unflag a document, it disappears immediately, even if someone had the page open.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>None of this requires anything from you or your client beyond the four pieces of information above. The security happens automatically, behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting started<\/h2>\n<p>Dropbox is live on your account already. There&#8217;s nothing to turn on. Grab your firm&#8217;s link from the <strong>Copy Dropbox Link<\/strong> button on any case&#8217;s Documents tab, flag a document, and it&#8217;s ready to share.<\/p>\n<p>Questions? Reach out to VCH support (<a href=\"mailto:support@vaclaimhelper.com\">support@vaclaimhelper.com<\/a>) and we&#8217;ll help you get the most out of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing Dropbox: A Secure, Self-Service Way for Clients to Get Their Documents If you&#8217;ve ever emailed a veteran their C&amp;P exam results, a decision letter, or a signed fee agreement, you already know the problem: once that email is sent, it&#8217;s gone. It sits in an inbox forever, you can&#8217;t revoke it if you sent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vaclaimhelper.com\/blog\/blog\/2026\/07\/16\/introducing-dropbox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Introducing Dropbox&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaclaimhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaclaimhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaclaimhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaclaimhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaclaimhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vaclaimhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/vaclaimhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaclaimhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaclaimhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaclaimhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}