Clients log in and see their projects' real status: tasks, milestones, progress. No status emails, no third-party cloud holding your client relationships.
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Standalone portal products need someone to keep them updated. The Worklenz portal reads directly from your project data, so what clients see is always current and nobody spends Friday afternoon syncing it.
Each client gets a login showing their projects only: current phase, task progress, and milestones. It reads from the same database your team works in, so the portal is accurate the moment work happens.
The portal is a strict one-way window. Internal comments, workload views, budgets, and every other client's existence stay invisible. Your team works candidly; clients see the curated truth.
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See what our customers have to say about their experience with Worklenz.
We are working with Trello until we have discovered Worklenz. The boards is better than Trello bzz you can view % of tasks completed and also the roadmap is more attractive than others. We are waiting the new features that make possible importer boards and projects from other platforms to migrate and centralize all project's information in one site.
Product Manager (EdTech) and Agile Coach at The Bridge
Amaizing product which is very simple and easy to use. Worklenz has revolutionized our workflow. With its user-friendly interface and powerful features, task management is a breeze. Time tracking, insightful analytics, and seamless integrations make it a must-have for any team serious about productivity. Highly recommended!
Founder & Leadership at Loons Lab
This is an excellent product. We practically experienced how productivity can increase after fully integrating this with our daily task schedule
Senior Lecturer at Sabaragamuwa University, Sri Lanka
We are working with Trello until we have discovered Worklenz. The boards is better than Trello bzz you can view % of tasks completed and also the roadmap is more attractive than others. We are waiting the new features that make possible importer boards and projects from other platforms to migrate and centralize all project's information in one site.
Product Manager (EdTech) and Agile Coach at The Bridge
Amaizing product which is very simple and easy to use. Worklenz has revolutionized our workflow. With its user-friendly interface and powerful features, task management is a breeze. Time tracking, insightful analytics, and seamless integrations make it a must-have for any team serious about productivity. Highly recommended!
Founder & Leadership at Loons Lab
This is an excellent product. We practically experienced how productivity can increase after fully integrating this with our daily task schedule
Senior Lecturer at Sabaragamuwa University, Sri Lanka
The portal is where client trust is most concrete. Owning that surface has real advantages.
Client names, project details, and progress live in your PostgreSQL database. When a client asks where their data is, the answer is one sentence.
The portal comes attached to full project management: boards, time tracking, budgets, and invoicing. You are not buying a window, you are getting the house.
Invite every client on every account. Proprietary portal tools price per user or per client; here the number that matters is zero.
AGPL-3.0 means the portal your clients rely on cannot be discontinued out from under you. Your deployment runs as long as you want it to.
Plan the team delivering what clients watch in the portal.
Bill the same work the portal reports on, from the same system.
Deliverables organised on projects, stored on your infrastructure.
Every new client engagement starts with a portal-ready structure.
The milestones clients follow are the phases your team plans with.
Your team gets summaries; clients get the portal. Everyone stays current.
Mostly no, which surprises people. Searching the category turns up proprietary tools marketing against the term (SuiteDash is closed source despite ranking for it), very early projects like Atrium, and guides suggesting you assemble a portal from file-sharing, messaging, and e-signature components. An assembled portal is a second product your team maintains forever.
The practical open source answer is a portal that ships inside a platform. Worklenz includes a client portal as a core feature of its AGPL-3.0 project management platform: the portal is generated from live project data rather than maintained as a separate artifact.
A client logging into the Worklenz portal sees their projects: status, tasks, milestones, and progress through phases. They do not see internal comments, time logs, budgets, team workload, or any trace of your other clients. The separation is structural, not a permissions checkbox someone can misconfigure per project.
This matters because portals fail socially before they fail technically. If clients might stumble onto internal candor, teams stop writing candidly in the tool, and the tool dies. A hard wall keeps the internal workspace honest and the client view professional.
Self-hosting puts the portal on your own domain and your own infrastructure: clone the GitHub repository, run the Docker quick-setup, and the full stack including the portal is yours. The Community edition is free with unlimited users and no per-client charges. Cloud hosting offers the identical portal without the server work, free for unlimited users with up to 3 active projects.
Either way, the portal inherits the platform's economics: it is a feature, not a per-seat product. Agencies with fifty clients pay the same as agencies with five.
How the built-in portal compares with what teams usually consider.
| Worklenz | Proprietary portals / DIY stacks | |
|---|---|---|
| Actually open source | Yes, AGPL-3.0 | SuiteDash and similar are proprietary; DIY components vary |
| Updates itself from project data | Yes | Standalone portals need manual updating |
| Per-client or per-user portal fees | None | Common pricing model |
| Includes project management, time, invoicing | Yes, same platform | Separate tools required |
| Self-host on your domain | Yes, Docker | Rarely available |
| Maintenance burden | One platform, maintained upstream | You maintain integrations |
Landscape assessment as of mid-2026.
Common questions about the Worklenz client portal
Yes. The portal is part of the Worklenz platform, released under AGPL-3.0 with full source at github.com/Worklenz/worklenz. Self-host it and the portal runs on your infrastructure like every other feature.
Clients see live status for their projects: tasks, milestones, phases, and overall progress. They can follow delivery without emailing anyone. Internal comments, budgets, time logs, and other clients' data are never visible to them.
There is no limit and no per-client fee, on cloud or self-hosted. Portal access is a platform feature, not a metered add-on.
Yes, by self-hosting. Deploy Worklenz with Docker behind your own domain and clients log into a portal that is entirely yours: your servers, your database, your TLS certificate.
The portal displays Worklenz project data, so it is not a bolt-on for other tools. That coupling is what keeps it accurate: teams that tried standalone portals usually abandoned them because updating became a chore.
The portal is included on all plans, including the free cloud plan (unlimited users, up to 3 active projects) and the free self-hosted Community edition (unlimited users and projects).
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