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Client portals

Client portals your customers sign in to

Client portal and web app development: a secure sign-in where customers see their documents, bookings, orders and messages, connected to the tools you already use.

Client portal and web app development

A client portal is a part of your website that customers sign in to: a place to see their documents, appointments, orders, invoices and messages without emailing you for each one. Law firms call it a client portal, practices a patient portal, property managers an owner portal; it's the same idea, built around your business.

We design and build portals and web apps as part of your site, in your brand, connected to the software you already run on, and built to be compliant with the rules in your industry.

One sign-in for everything

What a client portal looks like when it's built for your business. In your brand, connected to your tools.

Documents in one place

Contracts, statements, plans and photos, shared securely and kept with the record, not in email threads.

  • Upload and download
  • E-signatures built in
  • A record of who saw what

Bookings and status

Appointments, orders and jobs with their status, so nobody has to call and ask where things stand.

  • Book and reschedule
  • Live status updates
  • Reminders sent for you

Payments and invoices

Invoices viewed and paid online, with statements and receipts kept in the portal.

  • Cards and bank payments
  • Deposits and payment plans
  • Receipts kept with the record

Secure and compliant

Two-step sign-in, access by role and encryption throughout, built to be compliant with your industry's rules.

  • Two-step sign-in
  • Access by role
  • Built to be compliant

What a portal can do

Client portal features, in the pieces businesses ask for. Pick what yours needs.

Secure sign-in

Email, passcode or single sign-on, with two-step verification.

Document sharing

Upload, download and sign, with every version kept.

Forms and intake

Questionnaires completed online and attached to the record.

Messaging

Conversations kept with the matter, the patient or the property.

Booking

Appointments and viewings booked, moved and reminded.

Payments

Invoices, deposits and statements, paid online.

Status tracking

Where an order, a case or a job stands, without a phone call.

Your tools connected

Practice, case, property or accounting software kept in sync.

Is a client portal right for you?

The honest case for building a portal. Cons included.

Pros

  • Fewer calls and emailsCustomers find answers themselves, any time.
  • Everything in one placeDocuments, messages and payments kept with the record.
  • Your brand, not a vendor'sIt looks and works like the rest of your website.
  • Built to be compliantAccess, encryption and records done properly from the start.

Cons

  • Customers have to sign upSome will still email at first; the portal has to be easier than that.
  • It needs your tools to connectPlanned up front, or it becomes another place to type things.
  • It's a build, not a pluginA real project, with a plan and a timeline.
  • Not every business needs oneIf booking is the only bottleneck, start there.

Our take

Worth it once the inbox is the bottleneck.

If your team spends its day sending documents, chasing forms and answering where-is-it emails, a portal gives that time back. If not yet, we'll say so.

Client portals, explained

What a client portal is, who uses one and what it takes to build. The long version, in plain English.

What a client portal is

A portal is a private part of your website. A customer signs in and sees only what's theirs: their documents, their appointments, their orders, their invoices and their messages with you. It replaces the back-and-forth of email attachments and phone calls with one place that's always up to date.

Technically it's a web app, built into your site and connected to the software you already use, so nothing is typed twice.

Who uses one

Law firms use portals for intake, documents and engagement letters. Practices use patient portals for forms, results and reminders. Property managers give owners and residents a portal for statements and requests. Manufacturers and suppliers give buyers one for orders and shipments. Advisors and accountants use them for statements and secure document exchange.

The common thread is a business that sends the same information to the same people over and over, by email.

  • Law firms and legal intake
  • Patient portals for practices
  • Owner and resident portals
  • Buyer portals for suppliers
  • Client portals for advisors and CPAs

Connected to the tools you already run on

A portal only works if it's the same information your team sees. So we connect it to your practice, case, property or accounting software, your calendar and your payment provider. The customer sees the live record; your team keeps working where they already do.

Security and compliance

Portals hold private information, so they're built to be compliant from the first screen: two-step sign-in, access by role, encryption in transit and at rest, and a record of who saw what. Where your industry has its own rules, we build to them, and where you have a compliance lead or a lawyer, we work with them.

Questions and answers

Still have a question?

Ask us anything. We'll answer it straight, even if the answer is that we're not the right fit.

  • A portal is the customer-facing side: what your clients sign in to see. Custom software is what your team runs on. Many projects have both, and we build them to share one record.

  • Usually, yes. We connect to practice, case, property and accounting systems, calendars and payment providers, so nothing is typed twice.

  • Yes. It's built as part of your site, in your brand, so customers never feel handed off to a vendor's screen.

  • Yes. Two-step sign-in, access by role, encryption throughout and a record of every view, and built to be compliant with the rules in your industry.

  • Yes. E-signatures are built in, and every signed version is kept with the record.

  • It depends on what it does and what it connects to. You get a plan with stages on the first call, and the first working version comes early so your team can try it.

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Kind words

Hear it from the businesses we've built for. What it's like to work with us, in their own words.

“Our new website and ads brought in more customers than we expected. Stratasis made the whole thing easy from start to finish.”
Anna BorowskaOwner, Apex Windows
“They took our whole website from idea to launch, online booking included, and never made it feel complicated.”
Elizabeth MarkowskiOwner, Virelle
“Everything was built around how we actually work, with the compliance side looked after from the first day.”
Daniel ZhaoFounder, Pelagion
“One team for the brand, the site and the ads. It finally feels like one business online.”
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