> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.alforse.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Customer portal

> A standing, read-only link where a customer watches their open orders and shop-floor progress, no Alforse account needed.

The customer portal provides read-only access to one customer's work. It shows sales-order line status, buyer and engineer contacts, order and due dates, part number and revision, completed and shipped quantities, and per-operation job progress. Customers cannot modify data in the portal.

## Creating a portal

Alforse screenshot**Sales → Configure → Portals: the portal list with per-row URL copy control and the new-portal drawer with the customer picker**

One portal per customer, each with its own private URL.

Open **Sales → Configure → Portals** and create a portal for the customer. Copy the private URL from its row and send it to the customer contact. The link does not require authentication. Treat it as a credential and share it only with authorized recipients.

NOTE

**One portal, one customer**

A portal is scoped to a single customer record: it lists that customer's orders and nothing else. Files attached to their job operations can be downloaded from the portal, limited to the customer's own jobs and rate-limited per visitor.

## Related

**Digital quotes**

The customer-facing bookend before the order: accept or reject a sent quote.

[Open](/docs/reference/quotes.md#digital-quotes)

**Sales orders**

The orders and statuses the portal reflects.

[Open](/docs/reference/sales-orders.md)

**External sharing**

How Alforse's private links work across quotes, supplier requests, and SCARs.

[Open](/docs/reference/sharing.md)


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