WinSCP - How to Zip, Download and Delete a file?

There's no way to ZIP files over any file transfer protocol (SFTP, FTP, SCP or WebDAV). That's why there's no such function in WinSCP, as it cannot be implemented reliably.


Though, if you have a shell access to the server, you can use a shell command to ZIP the files. That's actually, what the Tar/GZip custom command does.

If you want it in one-go (zip-and-download), there's now a WinSCP extension that does exactly this:
Archive remote files to ZIP archive, download it, and optionally extract it.