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Work in this area · links to your systems

A portal the data arrives in by itself — from the website and from your system

A website enquiry lands in the portal with its source tag, the status from your system is visible to the customer, and invoices and documents are not typed in twice. One record lives in one place.

What you get
  • →A website enquiryarrives with its source tag
  • →The statusfrom your system to the customer
  • →Double entrygoes away
The exact scope and timing are fixed after the diagnostic — before that nobody has an honest picture.
Outcome

What stays with you afterwards

One record in one place

The enquiry, the task, the status and the document exist once each. Copying between windows stops being work.

The source tag arrives at the far end

It is set on the website and travels all the way into the customer record — which is why the channel report adds up instead of being "roughly like that".

A status the customer can see

What the manager marked in your system, the customer sees in the portal. Without retelling and without a day’s delay.

An honest map of what can be linked

Before the work starts you know what connects straight away, what goes through an export and what does not connect at all. That conversation happens before the money, not after.

Who it fits

When people come to us with this

Four situations where the link pays off first.

Data moves by copy and paste

The website enquiry is copied into the CRM, from there into a spreadsheet, from there into an invoice. Each hop loses a little meaning and adds a typo.

Two truths about one order

In the CRM it is "running", in the portal "done", and the customer’s inbox holds a third version. The argument is about whose window is right, not about the work.

The channel report does not add up

The source tag is lost somewhere along the way, and the conversation about which advertising works becomes an exchange of impressions.

Invoices are typed by hand

The same details and amounts are entered a second time because the systems do not know about each other.

How the work goes

A clear order, no surprises

1 · A conversation

Half an hour about who asks you what, and how often: customers, dealers, partners, staff. No access to your systems is needed at this step.

2 · A map of the questions, and the first screen

We show which questions eat your people’s time and pick what the portal closes first — usually the status of the work and a place to put files. The map stays with you either way.

3 · We take it into service

We build the portal, connect it to your systems, open it to the first users and stay around: we watch what they actually use and tell you what changed and why.

The figure is named in a quote for your task, once it is clear who signs in, what they do there and which of your systems the portal talks to. There is no price list here on purpose: the spread of work is very wide, and an "average price" would mean averaged work.

Straight talk

What we do ourselves and what we do with partners

We do this ourselves

We link the portal to the website: the form on the page sends the enquiry with its source tag, and the tag travels through to the customer record. That is how it works for us, which is why we know where this chain usually breaks.

Linking a website to a CRM as a job in its own right is covered in the websites section; moving data between your programs without a portal is a separate job — integrations with your CRM and accounting.

We build this out for you

What can actually be linked depends on your system: some have an open exchange, some only a file export, some neither. We say so in the review and name the way round if the direct route is closed.

The direction of the exchange (into us only, out of us only, or both ways) is named before the work starts: two-way costs more and is not always needed.

Where a partner does part of the work — say, your accounting system is extended by its own contractor — we stay your single point of contact: we set the task, watch the timing and answer to you for the result. The contract names the contractor honestly — no "we do everything in-house".

Questions

What people usually ask

Our CRM is an unusual one — will it work?
We will say honestly in the review: what connects straight away, what goes through a file export and what does not connect at all. Promising a link to a system we have not seen would be a lie.
Will data travel both ways?
It depends on the system and on the task. Two-way is not always needed: often it is enough for enquiries to go into the CRM and the status to come back to the portal. We name the direction before the work starts.
What if there is no CRM yet?
Then the first step is a single list of enquiries with a source tag inside the portal itself. A CRM is the next conversation, and a separate one.
Enquiry

Let us look at your task

Half an hour about who asks you what and how often — no access to your systems and no commitments.

We call back during working hours. Company details are optional — if you give them, we read the open registries first and come to the conversation prepared.