Create a Client Portal
in Framer
Share project updates, files, and progress with your clients through a secure, password-protected portal. Each client gets their own login credentials.
Why Use a Client Portal?
Stop sending endless emails and links. Give clients a central hub.
Secure Access
Only your client can view their content. No accidental sharing, no unauthorized access.
Individual Logins
Each client gets unique credentials. Track who's accessing what and revoke access instantly.
Always Updated
Update content once, clients see changes immediately. No re-sending links or files.
On-Brand Experience
Design the portal in Framer to match your brand. Customize the login page with your logo and colors.
How to Build Your Client Portal
Set up a professional client portal in minutes
Design Your Portal
Create pages in Framer for project updates, file downloads, feedback forms, or anything your clients need.
Create Client Accounts
In PageLock, create individual user accounts for each client with unique usernames and passwords.
Protect & Share
Run the PageLock plugin, publish your site, and share credentials with each client. Done!
Client Portal Use Cases
How agencies and freelancers use PageLock
Design Agencies
Share mockups, brand guidelines, and final deliverables. Clients review and approve without email back-and-forth.
Web Developers
Show staging sites and progress updates. Clients see the latest version without you sending new links.
Marketing Teams
Share campaign reports, content calendars, and assets. Keep everything organized in one place.
Consultants
Deliver reports, resources, and recommendations through a professional branded portal.
Simple Pricing
Free on Framer staging domains. Upgrade to lock your custom client-portal domain.
What Goes Into a Good Client Portal
The portal is just Framer pages, so structure it the way you would any project hub. A pattern that works for most agencies:
A status page per project
Current phase, what shipped this week, what is blocked and on whom. This one page kills most check-in emails. Because it is a normal Framer page, updating it is a publish, not a deployment.
Deliverables and files
Embed Figma frames, link final assets, or list downloads. Clients always find the latest version in the same place instead of digging through email threads.
A feedback form
Add a Framer form pointed at Proofly Forms and client feedback lands in your dashboard with the page it came from, instead of scattered across channels.
CMS-driven client pages
Running many clients? Model portals as a Framer CMS collection, one item per client, and lock the collection pages. PageLock supports Framer CMS locking, so each generated page sits behind the gate automatically.
Alternatives, Honestly
A client portal in Framer is not the only way to share work. Here is how the other approaches trade off.
Framer's built-in site password
Free and instant, but site-wide: one shared password covers everything, so you cannot keep marketing pages public while gating client work, and every client shares the same secret.
Membership platforms (Memberstack, Outseta)
The right tool when clients must self-register, pay subscriptions, or manage profiles. For a handful of known clients it is more product than you need, with platform pricing to match. See PageLock vs Memberstack and PageLock vs Outseta.
Notion or Google Drive links
Zero setup, but off-brand, and link-based sharing is one forward away from public. A portal on your own domain looks like part of your service, because it is.
Custom-coded gate
JavaScript overlays hide content visually while shipping it in the page source. Read PageLock vs custom JavaScript for why that fails the moment someone opens DevTools.
Rolling It Out to Clients
Build and test on your Framer staging domain first, where PageLock is free. Lock the portal page, log in with a test credential yourself, and confirm the published page shows only the login form when you open it in a private browser window. View Source is the honest test: if the client content is not in the HTML, the gate is doing its job.
When the portal moves to your custom domain, upgrade to a paid plan and keep the URL structure boring and predictable, for example /clients/acme. Send each client their credential in the same email as the link, and note in your project welcome doc where the portal lives. Clients lose links, not bookmarks-with-logins.
At project end, revoking the credential is the whole offboarding process. The page can stay published as a template for the next engagement, and nothing needs to be unpublished or rebuilt.
Common Questions
Do my clients need to create accounts?
No. You create the credentials in PageLock and send them to each client. They enter a password, PIN, or a one-time email code, and they are in. There is no signup flow for them to abandon.
Can each client see only their own portal?
Yes. Give each client their own locked page (or set of pages) with its own credentials. A client can only open the pages whose credentials you gave them.
What happens when a project ends?
Revoke that client's credential in the dashboard. The pages stay live for everyone else, and the removed client sees only the login form.
Do I need Memberstack or Outseta for this?
Not for a portal. Those platforms shine when clients must self-register, pay subscriptions, and manage their own profiles. For sharing gated project content with known clients, a server-side page gate is simpler and cheaper. See PageLock vs Memberstack for the full picture.
Keep reading
Client portals run on PageLock. If your portal is closer to a community or subscription product, see the guide to member areas in Framer, or start with the basics in Framer password protection.