Client portals
Your customers log in and see their own jobs, files, approvals, and invoices. Nothing else.
Your clients need a login, not another email thread.
We build client portals, internal tools, and workflow apps in Zite. Your team gets an app that runs the work. Your clients get one place to see their own.
Twenty minutes. We look at how work moves through your business and tell you what we would fix first. No pitch.
01 / The problem
The status update is eating your week
Every client wants to know where their job stands. So they text you. Or they email, and the email lands under forty others, and you answer it at nine at night from your phone with a guess.
Meanwhile your own team is asking you the same question about the same job, because the only complete picture of it lives in your head.
You do not have a communication problem. You have a problem where nobody except you can see anything.
02 / What this costs
What this costs
You become the bottleneck on your own work. Every job needs you to move it forward, so the business cannot grow past what you can personally track. And the clients who cannot see progress assume there is none, which is where the discount conversations start.
03 / Why us
We build the app, you own the app
We have built operational systems for enterprise teams and for one person shops, and the pattern is the same at both ends. The work needs one place to live and the right people need to see the right slice of it.
Zite is where we build that when it needs real users. It handles the database, the logins, the permissions, and the workflows in one place, and it does not charge per seat. For a small business adding fifty clients to a portal, that last part is the whole argument.
04 / How it goes 03
How it goes
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Twenty minutes
You show us how work moves now. We tell you what to build first.
20 minutes 02
Scope and number
You see exactly what gets built and what it costs before anything starts.
In writing 03
Build and hand off
We build it, your team uses it, and you own the account and the data.
Yours to keep 05 / What we build in Zite 04
What we build in Zite
Internal tools
Intake, job tracking, scheduling, approvals, and the reports you keep rebuilding by hand.
Workflow automation
The follow ups, notifications, and handoffs that currently depend on someone remembering.
Quote and intake forms
Multi step, conditional, and connected to the same data the rest of the app runs on.
Everything is quoted after we talk. Most projects start around $3,500, and you see your number before anything begins.
06 / What changes
What changes
The status text stops coming, because the client already looked. Your team stops asking you where things stand, because they can see it. You get your evenings back, and the business can take on more work without needing more of you.
07 / FAQ 04
Questions that come up before the call
Is Zite the right choice over Airtable?
Zite when outside people need logins and permissions. Airtable when the problem is the internal process and your team lives in the data all day. Plenty of builds use both. See the comparison →
Do we pay per user?
No. Zite includes unlimited users on every plan, which is why we reach for it on portal builds. You pay for the platform, we build on top of it, and adding clients does not raise your bill.
Can it connect to what we already use?
Yes. Zite connects to Airtable, Google Sheets, and the other tools most small businesses already run on, so you do not have to abandon a system that works.
What if we outgrow it?
We will tell you before you build if we think you will. When a build needs deep visual control or logic a builder will not hold, we say so and point you at custom software instead.
Next step
Let's see if this fits
Twenty minutes. You show us how work moves now. We tell you what to build first, and whether Zite is even the right place for it.