# Build a client portal with Airtable

> A private portal where each client signs in to follow their own projects, invoices and support tickets.

A secure, role-gated portal where clients see only their own projects and invoices, run on Airtable.

This is a real client portal — each client signs in and follows their own projects, invoices and support tickets, and sees nothing that belongs to anyone else. Every project, invoice and ticket is a record in the Airtable base linked below, and the portal reads and writes it live.

Agencies and service teams already track this work in Airtable. The leap to a portal is entirely about trust: a client must see their own records and only their own, the moment their access changes it has to take effect, and none of it can depend on hiding rows in the front end.

## What it takes to build one

- **Access scoped to the person.** Sign-in maps to a client record, and every read is filtered to what that client owns — enforced server-side, so it isn't something a curious visitor can poke past. See [Airtable authentication](/products/vibekit/features/airtable-auth).
- **Access that changes in real time.** Edit a client's row and their view updates; remove it and they're signed out — see [real-time sync](/products/vibekit/features/live-data).
- **The base stays invisible.** The API key never reaches the browser, so the portal is on the public web but the base behind it is not — see [secure token storage](/products/vibekit/features/secure-token-vault).
- **An audit trail.** Every request through the portal is logged, so you can see who accessed what — see [request logs](/products/vibekit/features/request-logs).

## How the data stays in Airtable

Your team runs the work in Airtable — projects, invoices, tickets — and the portal shows each client their slice of it, live. Anything clients submit comes back as records, so your base stays the single source of truth. Open the base behind this demo to see the tables the portal reads and writes.

**Live demo:** https://client-portal.aextra.ai
**The Airtable base behind it:** https://airtable.com/appGTwuh2LKsDP3nm/shrtVfNVBFI87v3nV

## Questions this page answers

- how to build a client portal with Airtable
- secure client portal on an airtable backend
- role gated client dashboard from airtable
- let clients log in and see their own projects from airtable
- airtable customer portal with authentication

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