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How to set up fully customisable Client Portal on Salestrekker 2.0. How to share and revoke access to Client Portal.

Written by Rade Mrvic

(i) - Extensive customisations

Salestrekker Client Portal has extensive customisation options and to be used effectively it requires some initial setting up. Below is the best practice set up for the optimal customer experience.

Users can manage the following:

  • Welcome message (default: "Let's get started")

  • Organisational logo

  • Initial login location

  • Workflow stages and their appearance

  • Custom fact find flows per deal type

  • Stages where the fact find is editable

  • Walkthrough videos

  • Dashboard videos

  • Dashboard video message (default: "Welcome, let's begin")

  • Customer updates

  • Deal owner message (default: "In your corner")

  • Deal owner updates and reminders

  • Use automations to create privacy disclosure and required document lists

  • Customise Client Portal invite email


(ii) - Main components

A - Customisable welcome message. Can be added in the client portal settings.

B - Loan information. Once added in the deal deal information will display here.

C - Dashboard video. Guide videos linked to workflow stages with custom stage message.

D - Workflow stages. Displays current and other stages in deal's workflow.

E - Documents overview. Required documents list, links to the Documents section in the side bar.

F - Property information. Security and lender information, displays once added to the deal.

G - Add note. Customer can add a note that gets saved in the Client Portal and deal notes.

H - Deal owner details. Clients can call and email deal owner form here.

I - Shared documents. Any documents shared with the client or document signed in the portal.

J- Portal navigation. Clients can navigate between the fact find, document collection, notes and dashboard

K - Portal personalisation. Customers can opt to a dark mode and log out of the portal


(iii) - Settings

Australian Salestrekker users require e-signature credits to send the client portal. The reason for this change are:

  1. Various data providers require privacy to be signed before they provide that data (eg Equifax, Open Banking).

  2. E-signatures in portal make a lot of sense in reducing a number of consumer touches on the initial onboarding.

  3. Having e-signatures integrated in Client Portal make it much easier to track client signing progress.

STEP 1 - Set up your branding

Each organisation can brand their portal using organisation settings and uploading own logo. It is important that the uploaded logo is in PNG format with transparent background. White background logos look unprofessional.

STEP 2 - Set up your custom flows

Go to settings, Account settings. Under Client Portal settings section click on Add flow button and select type of deal (e.g. Home loan).

There select which sections and subsections you wish to include in the custom flow:

STEP 3 - Modify stage names or content

Workflow stage name can appear in the Client Portal:

Customers often find this useful as it gives them updates of the application progress.

In some instances, naming of these stages might not be suitable for the optimal customer experiences. Users have two options:

  1. Rename workflow stage if it is not inherited from a parent organisation or enterprise;

  2. Remove this widget all together by switching off the toggle on the Content section of Client Portal settings:

Other content controls involve switching off walkthrough and dashboard videos and setting up where in the Client Portal will the client lend on the the initial login.

STEP 4 - Set up stages that are not editable

GO to Settings >> Process >> Workflows and set stages that should not be editable via Client Portal. Go to the 'Editable stage' drop down and select 'Read-only' to make that stage Fact Find not editable.

This will ensure that the customer can only edit Fact Find prior to loan submission to the lender.

Inherited workflows will have this section locked in. If changes are required, please get in touch with your aggregator.

STEP 5 - Add walkthrough/dashboard videos and custom messages

Under Client Portal settings, set up Content you wish to display on the portal:

To ensure the optimal customer experience when completing the fact find, set the 'Show Client Profile when Client logs in for the first time' option to on.

There are two types of videos users can add to personalise their Client Portal:

  • Flow or walkthrough videos - these explain fact find processes

  • Dashboard or workflow video - these explain loan process steps and portal itself

To add a video and a custom video message, click on the icon next to the Action switch and add relevant videos:

We created an AI generated "Welcome to our portal" video which you can access and use by inserting this link in the relevant stages of Dashboard videos:: https://vimeo.com/1214080885

In New Zealand, feel free to use UK accent version of this video: https://vimeo.com/1214549861

Walkthrough/flow video example from Client portal:

Dashboard video example from Client portal:

STEP 6 - Set up your required document lists

Required documents process is described in this article, the best practice process is as follows:

  • Set up a required document group for applicant 1 (separate lists for PAYG and self-employed)

  • Set up a required document group for applicant 2 (separate lists for PAYG and self-employed)

  • Set up a required document group for owner occupied purchase

  • Set up a required document group for investment purchase

Add appropriate document labels and document due date (days from sharing) to required document templates to ensure enhanced uploaded document management.

When sharing client portal initially, ensure that relevant documents are assigned to each applicant in the deal, in this case Applicant one gets all Applicant 1 PAYG documents, applicant 2 all Applicant 2 PAYG and all Purchase OO documents:

Try conditional automations to improve required document creation.

STEP 7 - Set up your custom fields

Salestrekker allows for contact custom fields that are aligned to each deal type. Custom fields are used to collect information that does not exist in Salestrekker's default data model.

Detailed instructions for custom field creation are in this article.

STEP 8 - Set up customer and own updates

Salestrekker can send automated updates to customers and deal owners. To update customers, go to Client Portal settings and select which updates you wish to provide.

Using automations is often more effective method as users can control conditions under which customer updates are occurring.

Deal owners can receive Client Portal updates by setting up their own Updates and reminders:

Client finished application will be visible only on the last screen of the shared flow:

STEP 9 - Customise invite email

Users can edit our default invite email content by replacing this paragraph of the email:

Go to Settings >> Account >> Client portal settings and click on action icon in Invitation email edit:

Add your content and that will replace the first paragraph of the default email content. Email editing functionality accepts a single paragraph plain text only:


(iv) - Sharing Client Portal

Australian Salestrekker users will require e-signature credits to send the client portal. More information on purchasing credits can be found here:

Deal Owner no longer receives email with the portal link and PIN. Instead, Client Portal URL and PINs are saved in deal notes (see below).

1. Required Documents: Create Required document lists from templates described above:

2. Initiate Share: Go to Client portal share and choose which customer will you share portal. Portal can be shared with all deal customers and they can be set up whether they see each other information in the side drawer.

3. Share Portal: Choose if the customers can see each other's information, select the custom flow and assign required documents

4. Portal Link & PIN: New lo in process designed to improve onboarding

Client will receive an email invite, containing the link to their Client Portal page. Once they request the PIN in the portal login page, customers will receive an additional email containing a 6-digit passcode for login.

Client email example (note we will shortly add a text customisation option for this email):

Initial login screen example. Customer needs to request the code:

Email with pin example:

Customer enters pin here:

In case that customer does not receive link and pin emails users with access to the deal can see Client Portal link and any PIN shared in deal notes and share these with the client: (search for these notes by label 'Client portal'):


(v) - How to revoke access

It is important to know that client's access to their Client Portal will stay active until the access is manually revoked.

To un-invite client, simply click on the 'Client portal share' section in 'Deal View' again and confirm with 'Revoke' button in the pop-up window on the right.

A new deal Note will be created recording the cancelation and also this will be shown on the Contacts section of the deal Overview, next to the name of the contact with whom the portal was shared then revoked.


(vi) - Rejecting documents uploaded via Client Portal

Any document uploaded via Client Portal will automatically be marked as 'completed' in the required document list:

If the document uploaded by a client portal are not correct, users can reject these via "...' button next to the required document:

Rejected document will be marked as required again and the note explaining rejection will be displayed in the Client Portal:


(vii) - Bulk adding required document after portal share

If required documents need to be shared after the initial client portal share, use 'bulk share' option:


(viii) - Signing documents

A condition to share portal is for clients to sign the initial privacy document, using the integrated e-signatures process. This requires eSign credits to be available at the time of share (not relevant for NZ). Apart from creating this document prior to sharing portal, no other set up is needed for e-signatures within the portal.

If the applicants have already signed privacy document via normal integrated e-signature process within Salestrekker, they will not be required to sign documents again. External e-signature platforms will not work for Client Portal sharing.

When the customer signs into portal for the first time, they will immediately go to the signing page:

Example e-signature flow from the Client Portal:

Once client signs the document, they ill be directed to the completion of fact find flow (if so set up in the Client Portal settings):

Applicants who were included int he signature process, but were not in the Client Portal will receive a normal signature email:

Signed document will be sent to the client and deal owner via email as per standard e-signature process, and it will be saved in the Client Portal and CRM.

Where more than one applicants are in the deal, the additional applicants will receive separate signature links to complete the document.

Privacy document signature status will be visible on deal card, deal summary and Client Portal tab inside deal view (if signed via Client portal or standard e-signature process):

Privacy document icon colour guide:

  • Grey icon means - privacy document was sent for e-signatures, no one signed it

  • Amber icon means - some parties have signed privacy document

  • Green icon means - all parties have signed privacy document

  • No icon means - privacy document is not sent via integrated e-signature process


(ix)- Client Portal statistics

Deal summary card contains information on various parts of Client Portal usage for that specific deal:

Deal view contains is a Client portal tab with more detailed statistics:

Details of flow shared:


(x) - Security and loan information

Once added to the deal tools section, security and loan information will show on the Client Portal Dashboard.

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