The Customer Portal allows you to provide your customers with the ability to create new Jobs or view the existing Jobs or Quotes. Contacts are granted access under the Customer and can see either all the Customer’s Jobs or alternatively only those Jobs wherein they are the main Contact.
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All general/high-level settings for the Customer Portal are available under Administration → Customer Portal.
Key Settings
Contact Notifications – You can specify one or more email addresses for who should be notified as Contacts are sent invites to login via the Customer Portal.
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Job Notifications – Specify who should be notified based on the Job Type or set an overall notification list.
Inviting Contacts
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1. Open the Customer Details and browse to the Contacts
2. Open an existing Contact or create a new Contact.
1. Enter the Contact Name
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Note: If this is unticked you will need to provide them with their login details and Portal link.
6. Save the Contact.
Accessing the Customer Portal
Once the Contact has been saved, if specified, they will be sent an invitation with a link to log directly into the Customer Portal.
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The following image is in an example of an email sent to a contact which contains the username and password as well as Customer Portal link.
41. Customer Contact needs to enter their credentials and click Log In.
52. Once logged in, Customer contact can access some information depending on the permissions granted.
In this example, we've granted permission to View and Edit All Quotes as well as Create New Quotes.
Note: When creating a quote from Customer Portal, some basic information needs to be entered and once saved, such quote becomes visible from Quotes tab in Ascora web and more information can be added from there such as assigned user, booking, etc.
Sharing Job Photos
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Note: Initially when added all files, including Job Photos, they are not Visible on the Customer Portal.
1. Tick the photos or attachments you’d like to share with the Customer.
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