The Best Client Portal For Designers
Focus On The Creative Work, Not The Hustle Around It
Whether you’re a freelance designer, a growing studio, or an established creative team, Zendo helps you manage every client project from one place.
Handle requests
Communicate in real-time
Track progress
Share files
Sell services & get paid
Great design deserves a better client experience
Look PRO from the get-go
First impressions matter. Invite clients to a branded portal that makes your business look as polished as the designs you create. With your logo, your colors, and under your domain, every interaction feels familiar.
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Cut the middleman — let clients take the wheel
No more “where are we at?” emails. Clients can check project status, review deliverables, and see what’s next — anytime, without asking. You design. They follow along.
Let clients browse your services, place requests, and kick off new projects on their own.
No briefing calls just to get started. Set the rules once — let clients do the rest.
Your workflows — full clarity for everyone
Skip the spreadsheets and sticky notes. Organize requests into clear stages, assign work to the right person, and keep everything moving. With:
Kanban boards,
workflow automation,
customizable statuses & deadlines,
nothing slips through the cracks. Your clients stay in the loop over the clock.
Less Busywork, More Design Time
Cut the noise & win more time for creative work
Keep all projects under one roof
Centralize everything that matters. Every user on your team gets a complete, real-time view of every project — requests, files, status updates, and payments — without hunting across a dozen different tools.
Close deals while you sleep
Provide clients with a branded storefront they can access anytime. They browse, pick a service, and place an order — while you sleep, design, or simply live your life.
Automate repetitive tasks
Let the boring stuff run itself. Set up your workflows once and let Zendo handle the rest. Eliminate the manual follow-ups, status updates, and invoice reminders that eat into your creative time.
Let clients onboard themselves
Skip the kickoff call. Customizable onboarding forms provide a clear, structured path from first contact to first brief. No scheduling, no hand-holding, no delays.
Built for Client Work
All the tools you need for
Client Communication & Collaboration
Ditch the chaos with one clean, structured collaboration hub.
Intake forms
Skip the spreadsheets and sticky notes. Organize requests into clear stages, assign work to the right person, and keep everything moving.
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Work & request management
Give every request a home. Define the request types you sell, move each one through the same clear statuses, and see what is open, what is waiting and what shipped without asking anyone.
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Chat that connects every dot
Keep the conversation where the work is. Every message, file and approval sits inside the request it belongs to, so nothing is lost in an inbox and nobody has to ask for context twice.
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Client engagement
Let the follow-up run itself. Triggers send a message, a file or the next intake form the moment something changes, so clients always know what happens next and you never write another reminder.
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Client portal for designers?
In Zendo, that's the easy part!
“Client management was the part of my business I dreaded most. Zendo flipped that completely — and at that pricing, it’s the best thing I’ve done for my studio this year”
— Maya Patel, Brand Designer
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Your Brand, Front and Center
Make your client portal a part of your design!
Your client portal should reflect your visual DNA. Zendo lets you white-label every detail — so clients see a brand, not a platform.
Your logo. Your colors. Your vibe.
Upload your logo and set an accent color to make the workspace fully aligned with your brand. Populate your style through all your assets.
Your domain. Your corner of the Internet.
Upload your logo and set an accent color to make the workspace fully aligned with your brand. Populate your style through all your assets.
White-label everything!
Customize almost everything clients ever interact with — sidebar, documents, emails, even the favicon. Zendo disappears so your brand can take center stage.
Built for designers.
Loved by their clients.
“My clients think I built a custom platform just for them. Zendo is fully branded, the intake forms make onboarding effortless, and I can sell packages directly through the portal. I stopped duct-taping five different tools together and haven’t looked back.”
— Sarah Mitchell, UI/UX Designer & Studio Owner
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Built to Sell Your Services
Sell Without Limits
Zendo is more than a client portal for designers. It’s the engine behind how you sell, deliver, and get paid.
Productized
Sell services like products with clearly defined pricing. Offer rich packages for those in need of a quick logo, a beautifully edited ebook, or social media illustrations.
Subscription
Offer services on an ongoing basis and bill automatically. Make your designers available at a moment’s notice to quickly help out whenever a need arises.
Custom
Tailor your services to the needs of individual customers. Be ready to estimate and deliver whole websites, branding books, or custom typography.
From service catalog to paid invoice
1
Pick Service Type & Create Items
Choose between Productized, Subscription, Custom, or Free.
Items are the components of your Service. For example, items for a branding service could be a “logo design” and a “letterhead design”.
2
Build Order Form
Build unique Order Forms with custom input fields for each of your Services to streamline data collection.
3
Define & Automate Billing
Don’t waste time on the dull part of your business. Zendo can autogenerate a Quote upon order, send a Payment Request, and issue an Invoice once the payment has been processed.
4
Organize In Service Catalog
Display Services available for order in Service Catalog which is publicly accessible. Link it to your website and collect orders.
The client portal where client work actually flows.
Zendo helps creative teams deliver faster and sell more than they ever imagined.
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Client profile
Use simple yet fully functional built-in CRM.
Integrations
Make the most out of tons of possible integrations.
What's new!
Keep up with the new features and product updates.
Your Questions Anwsered
Everything you need to know.
What is a client portal for designers?
A client portal for designers is a secure online space where designers and clients can collaborate on projects. It centralizes communication, file sharing, feedback, approvals, and project updates, making it easier to keep everything organized in one place.
How can designers benefit from using client portal software?
Client portal software makes it easier for designers to stay organized. It reduces the need to manage long email threads, scattered files, and the endless switching between tools. And beyond the operational side, a great client portal elevates the entire client experience — giving clients a professional, seamless space that reflects the quality of your work.
What is the best client portal software for designers?
Zendo is the best client portal software for designers who want to run client work, sales and payments from one branded place. You get a white-label portal with your logo, colors and domain, plus intake forms, request management with Kanban boards, real-time chat, file sharing, a service storefront, quotes, invoices and Stripe payments.
How can I add a client portal to my studio website?
Platforms like Zendo make it easy to integrate a client portal into your studio website through custom domains, branded login pages, and client access links.
How can I manage web design projects and client relationships in one place?
Use a client portal that combines project management and a CRM. In Zendo, every client has a profile with their contact details, past requests, files and payments, and each web design project runs through clear statuses on a Kanban board. You manage client relationships and project work in the same place, without switching between email, spreadsheets and Drive.
Why use a client portal if I already share work through Google Drive folders?
A client portal turns scattered Google Drive folders into a single destination for the whole project. In Zendo, files, chat, approvals and project milestones live together inside each request, so nothing gets lost between tools. Clients see progress in real time, and you spend less time answering status emails.
How does Zendo compare to client portal builders like Airtable, Notion and Softr?
Zendo is built specifically for service businesses — not pieced together from a database tool. Unlike Softr or Airtable, there's no setup, no templates to wrestle with, and no technical knowledge required. Everything you need — client portal, payments, file sharing, communication — is ready out of the box.
Can I white label and customize the portal, so every customer sees my design business, not Zendo, when I deliver work?
Yes. Whether you're a solo designer or a full agency, Zendo white label features let you customize the entire client experience — logo, colors, domain, emails, sidebar, and more. Clients get a portal that looks and feels like yours, because effectively, it is.
Can I integrate with Zendo tools I'm already using?
Yes. Zendo integrates with Stripe for payments, Zapier for workflow automation, and Rewardful for affiliate programs. You can also embed any external app — like Figma, Google Docs, or Calendly — directly into your workspace.
Can I use Zendo for free?
Yes — Zendo offers a free plan (Essential), available forever with no credit card required. It includes a basic client portal, a storefront with one productized service, manual payments, and request & order forms. If you need more — like automations, custom domain, or unlimited services — paid plans start at $25/month, but each comes with a 14-day free trial.
