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Everything you need to set up your workspace, customize your white-label portal, and automate your delivery workflows.

14 guides66 min total read4 chaptersUpdated 24 Jul 2026
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01

Getting started

Zero to a live client-facing portal in an afternoon.

2 guides · 10 min

  • Set up your workspace, choose a portal identity, and preview exactly what your client sees.
    • Name the workspace and pick a portal URL
    • Drop in a logo and set your two brand colors
    • Publish and preview the client view
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  • Send branded invites and decide exactly which projects each client contact can see.
    • Send secure invitations from your workspace
    • Scope contacts to the right projects
    • Resend, revoke, or expire access
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02

Portal & branding

Make it look like your agency built it, because you did.

3 guides · 14 min

  • Make the portal feel like a natural extension of your studio.
    • Upload light and dark logo variants
    • Set accent color, radius, and login background
    • Override branding per client for sub-brands
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  • Point clients to your own branded sign-in URL, without a generic subdomain.
    • Point a CNAME at your portal host
    • SSL is issued automatically
    • Fix the three DNS mistakes that break setup
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  • Pick a starting point for retainers, web builds, SEO, or content delivery.
    • Swap placeholder milestones for your own scope
    • Customize pages and delivery steps
    • Save the result as your agency template
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03

Delivery workflow

Where the actual client work lives and moves.

4 guides · 18 min

  • Keep company records separate from portal logins, tag accounts, and archive churned clients without losing history.Read guide ↗
  • Build a status set clients can actually read, hide internal work, and trigger progress updates.Read guide ↗
  • Version deliverables instead of stacking v2-final-FINAL, and set folder visibility per client contact.Read guide ↗
  • Keep revision rounds in one thread, require sign-off, and mute internal chatter from client notifications.Read guide ↗
04

Billing & team

Money in, permissions locked, integrations wired.

5 guides · 24 min

  • Issue invoices carrying your logo and terms, share a public pay link, and automate overdue reminders.Read guide ↗
  • Compare owner, admin, member, and contractor scopes, then limit freelancers to one client workspace.Read guide ↗
  • Enforce 2FA, set session length, force logout everywhere, and read the audit log.Read guide ↗
  • Generate a scoped API key, subscribe to events, verify signatures, and handle retries.Read guide ↗
  • Diagnose invites landing in spam, domains stuck on pending verification, and empty client portals.Read guide ↗

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