Paper follows the work. Nearly every record and transactional document carries an Attachments tab where its files live: the signed delivery note against the waybill, the supplier's PDF against the purchase invoice, the contract against the customer.
- Uploading is one click from the tab. Files may be up to 25 MB, of the ordinary business kinds — PDFs, images, Office documents, spreadsheets, text and CSV files, and zip archives. Programs and executables are refused, for everyone's safety.
- Visibility follows the record. An attachment can be seen by exactly the people who can see the record it hangs on, and managed (uploaded, moved, retagged, removed) by the people who can edit that record. There is no separate filing permission to get wrong.
- Downloads are recorded. Who took a copy of a file, and when, is part of the record's trail.
- Prints file themselves. When you print or download the PDF of a posted document, a copy is filed onto that document's Attachments automatically — the exact paper you sent is preserved with the transaction it came from.
Attachments are one face of a larger system — a company-wide Document Library, an automatic filing plan, email-in capture, retention and archiving — told in full in Chapter 14. What matters for daily work is the habit: if it is paper about a record, it belongs on the record.