# Customer User Role

**URL:** <https://forum.manager.io/t/customer-user-role/65721>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [October 15, 2025, 12:36pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/customer-user-role/65721 "2025-10-15T12:36:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![alasdair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@alasdair](https://forum.manager.io/u/alasdair)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 12:36pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/customer-user-role/65721/1 "2025-10-15T12:36:50Z")

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I suspest this _ **idea** _ is not new, but …

For Customer Portal security, any thoughts to an additional user type:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/manager1/original/3X/f/5/f512acbb404d16489990d31dbc0137440b66cc9a.png)

i.e. Role = Customer

Once business selected one additional select to link to customer.

Customer Role users would then have access only to customer portal for the linked customer in the specified business. The current open URL for customer portals makes this potentially very useful function pretty much unusable. A customer user role would allow security/login.

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**Author:** ![Ealfardan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.manager.io/ealfardan/32/63166_2.png) [@Ealfardan](https://forum.manager.io/u/Ealfardan)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/customer-user-role/65721/2 "2025-10-15T17:17:13Z")

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Hello @alasdair,

While I am not entirely against more security, however, I don’t agree to this part:

> [@alasdair](#):
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> The current open URL for customer portals makes this potentially very useful function pretty much unusable.

Customer portals are much more secure than emails – the other common alternative.

While a user and password could arguably offer a bit more security, the long cryptic link offers way more security if not exposed to the public.

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**Author:** ![alasdair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@alasdair](https://forum.manager.io/u/alasdair)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 8:24pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/customer-user-role/65721/3 "2025-10-19T20:24:41Z")

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I honestly couldn’t pitch the idea of a customer portal without a password to my customers. There is an (reasonably valid)) expectation.

From “Ebrahim - Mudeer Consulting via Manager Forum”

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Date 10/15/2025 1:27:24 PM  
Subject [Manager Forum] Customer User Role