Redact documents before buyers see them

How redaction works

• Open a PDF in your files and choose Redact.
• Drag a box over each name, figure or clause to hide. You can work across every page.
• Save. Stowbill builds a redacted copy and stores it next to the original.
• Guests in the data room see and download the redacted copy. Your own team still opens the original.

The hidden text is really gone

A common mistake is to draw a black rectangle over text in a PDF editor. The words are still in the file, and anyone can copy them out. Stowbill avoids this by turning each page of the redacted copy into an image with the boxes burnt in. There is no text layer left to copy or search.

The price of that safety is that guests cannot search or select text in a redacted document.

A new version cannot slip past the redaction

If someone uploads a new version of a document that was redacted before, Stowbill holds the new version back from guests until a person redacts it again or confirms that it needs no redaction. Buyers keep seeing the last redacted version in the meantime.

What it does not do

Not built yet: single sign-on (SSO), page-by-page time analytics, AI features, accounting and email integrations, and a mobile app. Stowbill does not hold SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification today.

• Redaction is for PDFs. Convert Word or Excel files to PDF first.
• There is no automatic search-and-redact for names or patterns yet. A person draws each box.
• Removing a redaction later is done by sharing the original as a new step, for example once a bidder is preferred.

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