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Custom Portals

Custom Portal Development

Protected portals where customers, vendors, employees and partners sign in and do for themselves what now goes through your team by phone and email.

  • 40%Fewer inbound calls and emails
  • 24/7Access for your users
  • OneSource of truth, your ERP
  • 6 wkFirst portal live

Why It Matters

The questions that fill your inbox can answer themselves

Stop answering the same questions by phone and email

Where is my order, what do I owe, when does it ship: these arrive all day and pull your team off real work. A portal answers them with live data, so people check instead of call.

  • Order, invoice and delivery status on demand
  • Fewer status calls and chasing emails
  • Your team handles the exceptions, not the routine

Live data from your systems, not a separate copy

The portal reads and writes straight to your ERP and accounting, so what people see is your real data and what they submit lands in your systems. Nobody re-keys anything, and there is one version of the truth.

  • Connected to your ERP, accounting and back office
  • What users submit flows straight in
  • No duplicate spreadsheets or re-typing

Looks like your business, locked to each user

The portal carries your logo, colours and domain, and every user sees only their own records. Single sign-on, role-based access and an audit trail keep the data safe.

  • Your branding and your domain
  • Role-based access, single sign-on
  • An audit trail of who did what

From the people who log in to a portal that runs

  1. Map the users

    We agree who logs in and what each role can see and do.

  2. Design the portal

    We design the screens and the flows around real tasks, in your branding.

  3. Connect to your systems

    We wire the portal to your ERP, accounting and back office for live data.

  4. Launch

    We roll it out to one user group, then widen access as it settles.

  5. Support

    We tune and extend the portal as your needs grow.

Self-service that covers the everyday asks

  • Self-service accounts

    Users sign in, manage their own details and see everything tied to their account in one place.

  • Orders and quotes

    Place, view and track orders and quotes, with status pulled live from your ERP.

  • Invoices and payments

    View outstanding invoices, download statements and pay online, with the ledger kept in sync.

  • Documents and downloads

    Contracts, certificates, price lists and sales material, available to the right users on demand.

  • Support and tickets

    Raise and track support requests in one thread, instead of scattered emails and calls.

  • Notifications

    Alerts when an order ships, an invoice is due or a request is answered, by email or in the portal.

Proof

A customer portal for a manufacturer

A manufacturer built a customer portal connected live to its ERP and accounting, and went live in seven weeks.

  • The challenge

    Clients called and emailed all day for order, balance and delivery status, and each question meant a lookup in the ERP.

  • The solution

    Clients sign in to see orders, invoices and delivery status, download statements and pay online. Each sees only its own records.

  • The integration

    The portal reads live from the ERP and accounting, and online payments keep the ledger in sync.

Read the customer portal case study

Why teams choose TCB Infotech for portals

  • We know your back office

    We build ERP and software, so the portal connects to your real systems and data.

  • Start where it pays back

    We build the portal that takes the most weight off your team first.

  • Built around real tasks

    We design around what users actually need to do, not a generic template.

  • Security by role

    Each user sees only their own data, with single sign-on and an audit trail.

  • One steady team

    The people who scope it are the people who build it.

  • Support after launch

    We extend the portal as your users and processes grow.

Custom portal questions

What is a custom portal?

A custom portal is a protected web login built for your business, where customers, vendors, employees or partners sign in and do for themselves what now goes through your team by phone and email, with live data from your systems.

Does the portal connect to our ERP?

Yes. The portal reads and writes to your ERP, accounting and back office, so what people see is your real data, and what they submit lands in your systems with no re-keying.

Is the data protected?

Each user sees only their own records, controlled by role-based access. We support single sign-on, encrypted connections and an audit trail of who did what.

Can it be branded to look like our business?

Yes. The portal uses your logo, colours and domain, so it looks like part of your business rather than a third-party tool.

How long does a portal take to build?

A focused first portal usually goes live in about six to eight weeks, depending on the features and the systems it connects to. We start with one user group and grow from there.

Which portal should we build first?

Start where the inbound calls and emails are heaviest. For most businesses that is a customer portal for order, invoice and delivery questions, or a vendor portal for purchase orders and invoices.

Related

The other services in this section, and related pages from TCB Infotech.

Give Your Customers and Suppliers a Way In

No commitment. A working assessment of where a portal fits.