---
title: "Transfer data between accounts?"
url: "https://fileflare.io/docs/can-i-transfer-data-from-one-fileflare-account-to-another/"
description: "Data cannot be transferred between Fileflare accounts due to Shopify's per-store API architecture."
published: "2026-03-27T04:07:34+00:00"
modified: "2026-05-01T17:15:47+00:00"
---

No — data can’t transfer between Fileflare accounts. Each Fileflare account is bound to a specific Shopify store via Shopify’s auth model, so there’s no way to share or migrate accounts. If you’re moving data between stores, you’ll need to re-upload manually or use shared S3 storage.

Applies on all plans. The technical reason: Shopify treats each store as a separate, isolated tenant in its API model. Apps authenticate per-store, with no cross-store identity. Fileflare can’t link accounts even if we wanted to.

## Common scenarios

### Moving from one Shopify store to another

If you’re closing one store and opening another, your Fileflare data on the old store doesn’t carry. Practical options:

- **Re-upload manually:** download your files from the old Fileflare account (or your local backup), install Fileflare on the new store, upload again, attach to products. Tedious but reliable.
- **Connect a shared S3 bucket:** if both stores connect [your own S3](/docs/amazon-s3/) (or [R2](/docs/cloudflare-r2/)) as the storage backend, both Fileflare accounts read from the same bucket. Files don’t need re-uploading; you just re-attach them to products on the new store.

### Running multiple stores

Each store needs its own Fileflare account and subscription. Multi-store discounts (10-35% off) apply across all your stores — see [multi-store discounts](/docs/multi-store-discounts/).

### Migrating between Shopify plans on the same store

This isn’t a transfer — Fileflare doesn’t care about Shopify plan changes as long as the store identity is the same. Your data stays put.

## Best practice: keep your own backups

Fileflare stores files but isn’t a backup service. Always keep your own copies of your digital files locally or in a separate cloud storage. If anything goes wrong — uninstall by mistake, store closure, etc. — you’ll have the originals to re-upload.

## Keep learning

- [Connect S3 storage](/docs/amazon-s3/)
- [Connect Cloudflare R2](/docs/cloudflare-r2/)
- [Multi-store discounts](/docs/multi-store-discounts/)
- [Migrating from another digital-downloads app](/docs/migration/)