User Guides

User guides

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Complete everyday Customer Portal tasks as a member, approver, client reviewer, or organization administrator.

These guides describe the product people use, not only the code contributors extend. They follow the current Customer Portal routes, permissions, and workflow states.

Choose your role

Portal member

Sign in, accept an invitation, switch organizations, and manage your account.

Authenticated portal user

Read role-aware dashboard cards and continue work in the active organization.

Service-request participant

Create and follow organization service requests or manage the shared queue.

Time registrant

Record a week manually or with a timer, then submit it for review.

Approver or client reviewer

Review submitted time, request changes, and configure reviewer access.

Organization administrator

Configure clients, activities, projects, rates, approvals, and invoice defaults.

Reporting administrator

Filter recorded time, interpret totals, and export operational data.

Invoice administrator

Create invoices from approved time, deliver them, and track payment.

System administrator

Manage installation-wide users, organizations, sessions, and feature access.

How permissions affect the interface

Customer Portal combines an active organization with the user’s role and feature-specific capabilities. A route may exist without appearing in a person’s menu when that person has no relevant work or permission.

  • Organization owners and administrators configure the workspace and receive every timesheets action.
  • Members can read, create, update, and submit time when time registration is enabled for them.
  • Internal approvers see weeks assigned to them.
  • Client reviewers see only supplier workspaces and submitted time for which they have access.
  • System administrators receive the platform’s standard administrative bypass.

System administration is installation-wide and especially sensitive. Use Administer the portal for those workflows rather than treating an organization administrator as a system administrator.

If a guide mentions a control you cannot see, first confirm the active organization, your organization role, and the relevant workspace capability.