diff --git a/facefusion/apis/asset_helper.py b/facefusion/apis/asset_helper.py
index 71e22f52..1fa42892 100644
--- a/facefusion/apis/asset_helper.py
+++ b/facefusion/apis/asset_helper.py
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 import asyncio
 import os
+import time
 import uuid
 from typing import List, Optional
 
 from starlette.datastructures import UploadFile
 
 import facefusion.choices
-from facefusion import ffmpeg, state_manager
+from facefusion import ffmpeg, process_manager, state_manager, translator
 from facefusion.face_creator import get_many_faces
 from facefusion.face_helper import warp_face_by_bounding_box
 from facefusion.face_selector import sort_faces_by_order
@@ -46,6 +47,16 @@ def detect_media_type_by_format(file_format : str) -> Optional[MediaType]:
 async def save_asset_files(upload_files : List[UploadFile]) -> List[str]:
 	asset_paths : List[str] = []
 	api_security_strategy = state_manager.get_item('api_security_strategy')
+	time_current = time.monotonic()
+
+	process_manager.stage('upload', translator.get('uploading'),
+	{
+		'unit': 'percent',
+		'current': 0,
+		'started_at': time_current,
+		'updated_at': time_current
+	})
+	process_manager.count(upload_files)
 
 	for upload_file in upload_files:
 		file_format = get_file_format(upload_file.filename)
@@ -67,6 +78,8 @@ async def save_asset_files(upload_files : List[UploadFile]) -> List[str]:
 		if media_type == 'video' and await asyncio.to_thread(ffmpeg.sanitize_video, upload_file.file, asset_path, api_security_strategy):
 			asset_paths.append(asset_path)
 
+		process_manager.update()
+
 	return asset_paths
 
 
diff --git a/facefusion/locales.py b/facefusion/locales.py
index 9fa11931..0d376629 100644
--- a/facefusion/locales.py
+++ b/facefusion/locales.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ LOCALES : Locales =\
 		'processing': 'processing',
 		'merging': 'merging',
 		'downloading': 'downloading',
+		'uploading': 'uploading',
 		'temp_frames_not_found': 'temporary frames not found',
 		'copying_image': 'copying image with a resolution of {resolution}',
 		'copying_image_succeeded': 'copying image succeeded',
diff --git a/facefusion/types.py b/facefusion/types.py
index c9eba83f..77c73569 100755
--- a/facefusion/types.py
+++ b/facefusion/types.py
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ Progress = TypedDict('Progress',
 	'updated_at' : float
 })
 
-StageType = Literal['check', 'download', 'analyse', 'copy', 'extract', 'spawn', 'infer', 'merge', 'finalize', 'serve', 'stream']
+StageType = Literal['check', 'download', 'upload', 'analyse', 'copy', 'extract', 'spawn', 'infer', 'merge', 'finalize', 'serve', 'stream']
 Stage = TypedDict('Stage',
 {
 	'type' : StageType,
diff --git a/tests/apis/test_asset_helper.py b/tests/apis/test_asset_helper.py
index a55c7d74..88642f7a 100644
--- a/tests/apis/test_asset_helper.py
+++ b/tests/apis/test_asset_helper.py
@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
-import pytest
+import asyncio
+import tempfile
 
-from facefusion.apis.asset_helper import detect_media_type_by_path, extract_image_metadata
+import pytest
+from starlette.datastructures import UploadFile
+
+from facefusion import process_manager, state_manager
+from facefusion.apis.asset_helper import detect_media_type_by_path, extract_image_metadata, save_asset_files
 from facefusion.download import conditional_download
+from facefusion.filesystem import is_image
 from tests.assert_helper import get_test_example_file, get_test_examples_directory
 
 
@@ -14,6 +20,12 @@ def before_all() -> None:
 		'https://github.com/facefusion/facefusion-assets/releases/download/examples-3.0.0/target-240p.mp4'
 	])
 
+	state_manager.init()
+	state_manager.init_item('temp_path', tempfile.gettempdir())
+	state_manager.init_item('api_security_strategy', 'strict')
+
+	process_manager.init()
+
 
 def test_detect_media_type() -> None:
 	assert detect_media_type_by_path(get_test_example_file('source.jpg')) == 'image'
@@ -25,3 +37,13 @@ def test_extract_image_metadata() -> None:
 	image_metadata = extract_image_metadata(get_test_example_file('source.jpg'))
 
 	assert image_metadata.get('resolution') == (1024, 1024)
+
+
+def test_save_asset_files() -> None:
+	with open(get_test_example_file('source.jpg'), 'rb') as file:
+		asset_paths = asyncio.run(save_asset_files([ UploadFile(file, filename = 'source.jpg') ]))
+
+	assert process_manager.get_stages()[-1].get('type') == 'upload'
+	assert process_manager.get_stages()[-1].get('progress').get('current') == 1
+
+	assert is_image(asset_paths[0]) is True