Clientish Client Team: Let Clients Invite Their Own People

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How your clients add colleagues to the portal, the 24 permissions they can give, seat limits and what changes for your agency.

In Clientish, each client can bring its own colleagues into your client portal. The client invites people from their company and checks what each one can see and do, so a finance lead pays invoices while a marketing manager reviews files, all under one client account.

Applies to: every plan (Solo, Starter, Growth, Pro and Enterprise); people per client: 1 on Solo, 3 on Starter, 5 on Growth, 10 on Pro, unlimited on Enterprise
Who can do it: your client’s account owner, or a person on their team allowed to manage it. There is nothing to set up on your side.

What Is the Client Team in Clientish?

Client Team is a Team page in your client portal where a client manages the people from its own company.

  • It sits under Company → Team in the portal menu, for the account owner and for anyone they allow to manage the team.
  • How many people a client can add besides the account owner follows your plan: 1 on Solo, 3 on Starter, 5 on Growth, 10 on Pro and unlimited on Enterprise (5 during the free trial). Removed people free their seat.
  • Each person signs in with their own email and password and sees the company’s account only as far as their permissions allow.
  • Orders they place belong to the client’s account, so your team keeps working with one client.
Client portal Team page with the owner and two team members, their access, status and the row menu to edit permissions, resend the invite or remove

What Permissions Can Client Team Members Have?

There are 24 permissions in 6 groups, checked one by one or set with a preset.

GroupPermissions
Orders (7)View orders, place new orders, message you on orders, fill out intake forms, upload and download order files, review and approve files (proofs), see order prices
Invoices (4)View invoices, see invoice amounts, download invoice PDFs, pay invoices
Subscriptions (2)View subscriptions, cancel or change them
Payments & Balance (4)View saved cards, add or remove cards, view balance and deposits, add balance
Support (4)View tickets, open new tickets, reply on tickets, Live Chat with you
Company (4)Dashboard overview, notifications, edit the company billing address, manage the team
  • Three presets fill the boxes in one click: Billing, Project and Everything.
  • Presets never check anything that spends money. Pay invoices and Add balance carry a “Spends money” badge and are checked manually.
  • A box brings the boxes it depends on. Seeing invoice amounts, for example, also turns on the invoice list.
  • Without a price permission, order and invoice amounts show as “Hidden”.

How Does a Client Invite a Team Member?

The client opens Company → Team, clicks Invite Member, enters the person’s name and email, picks permissions and clicks Send Invite. The steps with screenshots are in inviting client team members.

Invite Member form with member details and 24 permissions in six groups, the Billing preset checked and Spends money badges on paying

What Does an Invited Team Member Receive?

They get an email from your agency, sent through your own email settings and brand, saying who invited them to which company’s portal.

  • The Set your password link in it works for one hour. After that, the client sends the invite again.
  • Their first sign-in counts as accepting. The account owner, and whoever sent the invite, get a bell notification that they joined.
  • From then on they get the emails that match their permissions, such as files to review when they can approve proofs.

What Does Your Agency See of a Client’s Team?

Nothing changes on your side: client team members are not your clients.

  • They don’t appear in your client list and take no client seat.
  • Adding one doesn’t count as a new client for your webhooks or automations.
  • You keep one client record per company, however many people work in its portal.

Client Team Problems

“Your team is full”⌄
All 5 seats are in use. The client removes someone who no longer needs access, and the seat is free for a new invite.
The invite link stopped working⌄
The Set your password link lasts one hour. The client opens the person’s row menu on the Team page and chooses Resend invite.
“This email is already in use”⌄
That address already belongs to another account, and every account needs its own. The client invites the person with a different email.

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