The Data Warehouse Share for SFTP automatically syncs the data in your Funnel account to a server using the SSH File Transfer Protocol.

We need access to write and delete (to overwrite) files at the location of the path you have selected, where meta files (summary, schema, test files, etc) will be stored.
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Your settings can optionally block all meta files if you want to be strict, except for the file starting with test_ which is sent over and deleted to test access.
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The data files are written to the "file name template" which optionally can include a path, eg data/{startDate}.csv which also needs to be writable. This path is only used for the data files and not the meta data files.

Choose what formats, fields to share, and schedule you want.

You need to have an SFTP server that can be accessed by external services. We have no requirements as to what authentication that your server should use, but we support using password, private/public key and IP whitelisting to enforce security.

We really recommend that the credentials that you use are unique and don't allow access to other resources!
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Check with your IT provider that you have these:

Another level of security you can choose to add is IP whitelisting. Funnel's SFTP traffic always comes from either of these IP Addresses:

Since passwords by themselves rarely are long and secure enough to withstand brute force attacks they are recommended to be accompanied by public key authentication. Where we have the private key and your SFTP server, that have the public key, can verify that the request comes from us.

You can create a private key and public key on your computer by running this command in the terminal:

We recommend that you create your own private key and public key. After creating the keys you can then input the private key when creating or editing the SFTP Data Share in Funnel. By adding the public key to your SFTP server you will then enable public key authentication and start verifying all incoming traffic.

By not inputting a private key at all you will use Funnel's default private key and public key. Then you just have to add the public key below to your SFTP server to enable the public key authentication.

Below are some error messages that can occur:

To find out if your server supports a certain cipher, you can type this into a terminal window:
​sftp -v -c aes128-ctr your.sftp.server
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The SFTP server does not support the requested cipher if the response looks like this:

This will also tell you which ciphers the server does support.

These are all the protocols we support and your server needs to support at least one of the protocols listed below for each category.