Hello!
I’ve completed a client site and was about to purchase the basic plan when I realized that in order to add a “File Upload” feature to the form, I need to upgrade to the Business site plan. This is completely unacceptable to my client and is unreasonable on Webflow’s part to restrict this feature to only the Business plan.
Is there any way to access the File Upload feature without having to purchase the Business site plan?
Hey @Mark_Web_Dev ,
Yes, the File Upload feature seems to be available on Business / Ecommerce plans other than Standard one.
If you are ready to store the uploaded files in some database solution, then you could make use of a custom script to accept file uploads (without it being native to Webflow) and then handle the form submission as per your use-case.
Here’s an example script of doing it using Make + Google Drive, but you could use S3 or other solutions whichever seems fit for your project.
Alternatively, you could explore something like Uploadcare as well.
In case, you want it natively in Webflow, then unfortunately the advanced plans seems like the way to go 
Adding to AJ’s notes-
Webflow requires a Business plan for this because it can result in a LOT of additional data, depending on how you’re using it. Much simpler than creating metered plans tied to storage utilization.
Uploadcare has a free plan, but a steep cliff if you exceed it, which cost much more than $20/mo difference between a CMS plan & the Business plan.
Personally I use Basin already for forms processing due to its spam handling, and it handles file uploads very well. You can probably do file uploads on the $7/mo plan. I’ve some notes on that here-
Uploading Files with Basin | Webflow Forms | Sygnal-U
Another quick and dirty option if you have < 50 submissions per month and don’t mind the styling limitations, it to drop a Jotform in, but the free plan includes a Jotform logo.
@memetican Michael,
Thanks for the added information. Did you get my private message I sent earlier? If not, I’ll send it again.
Mark
No way to unlock Webflow’s native upload without the Business plan, but you can drop in a third-party form tool like Basin, Jotform, or Uploadcare and pipe files to Drive/S3. Had to do this on a client build,Basin was easiest since it plugs right into Webflow forms.