Systems and methods for mobile device directed multifunction peripheral scanning to cloud are disclosed. The method includes receiving a document processing request at a multifunction peripheral including instructions on performing a document processing operation, a cloud storage request identifying a document to be stored in a remote cloud storage location and credentials sufficient to authenticate a user to the cloud storage location and accessing the cloud storage location using the multifunction peripheral to confirm that the credentials are sufficient to authenticate a user to the cloud storage location before beginning the document processing request. The method further includes completing the document processing request using the multifunction peripheral to thereby generate a processed document and storing the processed document in the cloud storage location directly from the multifunction peripheral device using the credentials.