Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox
Every document Hela issues is dropped into your storage, filed by company, year and month, like an archive cabinet nobody has to fill.
Connecting
Integrations → Google Drive / OneDrive / Dropbox → Continue with …. Hela asks for access to a single folder, which it creates (Hela/): it sees nothing else in your Drive. Whoever runs the server must have registered Hela with Google (GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID), Microsoft (MICROSOFT_CLIENT_ID) or Dropbox (DROPBOX_CLIENT_ID).
What is dropped
Hela/
Boulangerie Kivu/
2026/
09/
facture-ERNS-SALE-260928-0012.pdf
facture-ERNS-SALE-260928-0012.xml ← the UBL, for invoices
devis-ERNS-QUOT-260915-0003.pdf ← a signed quote
achat-ERNS-PURC-260902-0007.pdf ← a supplier order
| Event | File |
|---|---|
invoice.issued |
The invoice PDF and its UBL 2.1 |
sale.created (if set) |
The receipt |
quote.signed |
The quote, when it comes back signed |
purchase.created |
The order |
The till closing report and the monthly exports (cash_session.closed, export.ready) are the next files planned for the cabinet.
A changed document (an invoice completed by a payment) is not dropped again: the archive keeps the document as issued, which is what an archive is for.
Settings
| Setting | Default | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Archive counter sales | no | Receipts are many files; the till closing summarises them. |
| Drop the UBL | yes | The XML next to the invoice PDF. |
On a document
The Archive button of the Partners card drops on demand, for instance a document older than the connection. The archived state carries the path and a link to open the file in the storage.
Good to know
- Folder names are the company's in Hela; renaming them in the storage breaks nothing, Hela finds folders by id.
- Dropping is done by the server in the background, with retries; a storage outage does not delay the invoice.
- Quotas: Google and Microsoft cap calls per minute; a large back-fill spreads over a few hours.