Who can use this feature?
- Sharing accounts with contacts requires permissions
- Available on all plans
Customer portal is shared website where your customer contacts can view shared success plan objectives and track the progress in real-time. You can also assign tasks to customers. Sharing success plans with customers is optional.
Global admins must first enable customer portal within Settings > Customer Engagement > Customer Portal.
Share a success plan with account contacts
The following options are available for ownership of each entity:
| Role | Team Pool | Team Member | Contact | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Objective owner | ✓ | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| SuccessPlay owner | ✓ | - | ✓ | ✓ Co-owner If play is shared |
| Task owner | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Sharing a plan enables invited contacts to view the following:
- Objectives that are denoted as customer-facing.
- Shared SuccessPlays, including plays without co-owners.
- Tasks assigned to any contact on the account.
Plan summaries are not viewable in customer portal.
- Prepare the objective(s), SuccessPlay(s), and or ad hoc tasks(s) that you want to include. See specific instructions for each below.
- Open the Plan tab for the account you want to manage.
- Below the Plan Summary, click Share.
- In the Share Success Plan window, select the option to share the plan with account contacts.
- Optionally edit the account name that will appear in the customer portal.
- Optionally invite via email to send selected contacts an email with a link to access the portal.
Alternatively, you include a link to the shared plan from a touchpoint at a later time.
- Click Share or Share & Invite (if inviting via email now).
The plan is marked as Shared. Click to unshare the plan or invite contacts via email at any time.
Click the Customer View link to see a preview of what the customer may see in customer portal when shared. Actual view may vary.
Share an objective with account contacts
Sharing an objective with account contacts provides visibility into active, complete, and at-risk objectives. Within the customer portal, customers can click on each shared objective to view objective details, milestones, and tasks.
- Open the Plan tab for the account you want to manage.
- Click into the objective you want to make visible on a shared success plan.
- Ensure the visibility is set to Customer Facing.
If the plan is shared, any contact that has access to customer portal will see the shared objective. No emails are sent to customers when objectives are shared.
Share a SuccessPlay with account contacts
Sharing a SuccessPlay with account contacts allows the play to be included in customer portal (if the plan is shared). Additionally, shared plays include the option to assign an account contact as a named co-owner. A co-owner is not required, but it provides clarity for accountability, especially when working with multiple stakeholders.
- Open the Plan tab for the account you want to manage.
- Hover over any SuccessPlay, and click the Ellipses > Edit.
- Select Shared with account contacts.
- Once selected, an additional Co-Owner column appears in the play. Optionally select an account contact to share ownership of the play.
- Click Save.
If the plan is shared, any contact that has access to customer portal will see the shared play. No emails are sent to customers when plays are shared or co-owners are assigned.
Assign a task to account contacts
Assigning tasks to a contact allows the person to complete tasks within customer portal, with the exception of touchpoint follow-up or update attribute actions. Contacts cannot make changes to task details. Once a tasks is marked complete, they cannot change it.
You can't assign request information tasks or post task completions actions to account contacts. All tasks (with the exception of those) are viewable under a "To-Do's" heading, regardless of whether they are associated with an objective.
- Open the Plan tab for the account you want to manage.
- Hover over any task, and click the Ellipses > Edit.
- Set the Assigned to drop-down to an account contact.
- Click Save task.
If the plan is shared, any contact that has access to customer portal will see the task. No emails are sent to customer when tasks are assigned to them.
How customers access the portal
Customers access customer portal from an email invitation. You can send invitations from the Share link on the Plan tab or from a touchpoint. There is no need to provision customer accounts or perform additional setup to enable them to login.
The customer must be added as an account contact in order to get an invitation.
- Clicking on the link from the email invitation automatically logs the customer into the portal.
This link expires after one year.
- After session inactivity, the portal allows the customer to enter their work email to re-enter. If this email matches the contact email on the account, the system sends them an email link and logs them in.
Consider providing this resource to customers with whom you share portal access: I've been invited to Totango's Customer Portal—now what?
FAQs
Question: Can I hide certain objective fields from being visible in customer portal?
Answer: Not at this time.