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How to give portal access rights to my customers?
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What is Portal access/Who is a portal user?
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A portal access is given to a user who has the necessity to have access
to Odoo instance, to view certain documents or information in the
system.

For Example:
1.  A long term client who needs to view online quotations.
2.  Accounting consultant who needs to keep track of the company's financials.

A portal user has only read/view access. He or she will not be able to
edit any document in the system.

How to give portal access to customers?
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From Contacts Module
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From the main menu, select **Contacts** menu. If the contact is not
yet created in the system, click on the create button to create
new contact. Enter details of the contact and click "save".

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Choose a contact, click on the **Action** menu in the top-center of
the interface and from the drop down.

Select **Portal Access Management**. A pop up window appears.

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Enter the login **email ID**, check the box under **In Portal** and
add the content to be included in the email in the text field box below. Click on **Apply** when you're done.

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An email will be sent to the specified email address, indicating that
the contact is now a portal user of the respective instance.
