The Customer Portal allows you to create new Jobs or view existing Jobs or Quotes under your company name. Once you are added as Customer Contact, you would have received an email containing your username and password as well as a link to log in directly into the Customer Portal.
Depending on the permissions granted, you can either see view or view and edit jobs or quotes you've requested or other jobs or quotes as wellwith the option to see your own quotes and jobs or everything created under your company name.
The following image is in an example of a confirmation email once you're granted access to Customer Portal and this contains the username and password as well as Customer Portal link.
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