Last updated: 2026-06-26
Bulk uploading documents
The fastest way to get a backlog of leases, invoices, BER certs and receipts into Anchorlet is the bulk uploader.
How to upload
- Open Documents in the top nav.
- Click Bulk upload (top right).
- Drag a folder of files into the dropzone, or click to pick. Up to 50 files per batch, 25 MB each — a file over 25 MB is flagged before it uploads, so the rest of the batch still goes through.
- The uploader runs each file through:
- Dedupe — if the exact same file is already in your workspace, the row is marked Duplicate and skipped.
- Storage upload — the file uploads straight from your browser to secure storage. This is why large scanned PDFs work fine now — they no longer have to squeeze through a size-limited middle step.
- Read + classify — for PDFs with selectable text, Anchorlet reads the text to identify the document type. For photos and scanned PDFs, the image itself is analysed.
- Property match — Anchorlet looks at the filename and the contents and tries to link the document to a property in your workspace.
- Files appear in the table with their classification result and matched property. The Uploaded count reflects only the files that were actually added — duplicates are reported separately, so "8 uploaded" out of 10 dropped (with 2 duplicates) is expected, not an error.
What you can upload
| Format | Notes |
|---|---|
| Text-layer or scanned. Text-layer PDFs are read directly; scanned PDFs are read as images. | |
| Photos / images (JPEG, PNG, WebP) | Phone photos of receipts, certs, signage, and the like. |
| HEIC / HEIF (iPhone photos) | Accepted and stored, but the contents can't be read for automatic classification. Set the document type manually, or convert to JPEG if you want auto-classification. |
Spreadsheets aren't part of this uploader. Upload agency statements from the Statements page, and property lists or CSVs from Settings → Import.
Where things land
- Successfully classified files go into the property's documents tab.
- Files where the classifier was unsure end up in Documents → Needs review with a reason chip (e.g. "type uncertain", "no property match").
- Files that couldn't be read at all (corrupt PDF, no text, network error) stay in the list with a Try again button.
Per-property uploads
If you only have a single document for a specific property, use the Upload document button on that property's page instead. Same pipeline, but the property is pre-linked so no matching is needed.
See What the classifier does for the document types Anchorlet recognises.