Waller Creek Software handles client portal development in Austin for healthcare practices, manufacturers, sales organizations and businesses in every other industry. Our tagline is "Bring every project into view," and a portal is where that idea is most literal: give clients the right view, and your team the full picture. You work directly with co-founders Taylor Moses and Jamison Dyal.
Begin with the calls you want to stop getting
Our client portal development for Austin businesses starts with a simple exercise. Your staff jot down the calls, emails and texts clients send asking for information you already have. That list becomes the first draft of the portal's home screen, written in your clients' own words.
Then we sort the list by how often each question comes up and how much staff time it takes. The top few become the first release. Anything that needs a real conversation, like a billing dispute or a change in care, stays with your people, and the portal makes it easy for clients to reach the right person.
- Status questions: where is my job, order or request
- Document questions: send me that form, invoice or report
- Scheduling questions: when is my visit or service call
- Action items: what do you still need from me
A status page instead of a status call
Often the most useful feature is the plainest one: a clear status for every open item. Clients want to know what stage something is in, what happens next, and whether they need to do anything. In our client portal development, that status comes straight from the system your team already works in, so nobody has to update it twice.
When status changes, clients can get a notice by email or text, and they can always sign in for the details. Your staff stop fielding the same question, and clients stop wondering whether anyone is working on their request.
Good status pages use plain words. "Parts ordered, technician visit Thursday" tells a client far more than an internal code. We agree on the labels with your team during Design, keeping the ones clients will understand and translating the rest, so the page reads like a helpful update rather than a database field.
- 1 Client signs in
- 2 Sees their view
- 3 Submits a request
- 4 Team responds
- 5 Trail is recorded
Veritas Property Management: three audiences, one source of truth
For Veritas Property Management we built tenant, owner and staff portals that all draw from the same records. A tenant submits a maintenance request with photos from a phone. Staff see it right away, assign it and track the work. The owner sees what happened at their property without calling the office to ask.
The lesson carries over to any business with more than one kind of outside user. Each audience sees a different slice of the same information, matched to what they need and what they are allowed to see. That principle sits at the center of good client portal development for Austin companies that serve several groups at once.
✕Clients call to ask where things stand
✓Clients sign in and see current status
✕Forms printed, filled and scanned at the office
✓Forms completed and uploaded from home
✕Invoices and reports resent by email on request
✓Documents available in the portal anytime
✕Staff update clients from a separate system
✓Portal pulls status from the system staff use
✕Every client request means a phone call
✓Requests arrive routed to the right staff member
Patient portals for practices across the region
Patients want to complete intake forms before they arrive, see upcoming appointments, upload insurance cards and message the office without waiting on hold. A patient portal handles those tasks and passes the information to your staff in the format they already use.
Our healthcare systems are fully HIPAA compliant. We sign BAAs and any other compliance agreements you need, and a HIPAA-trained team member is involved in the build. Every view and download is recorded in an audit trail, data is encrypted, and sign-in can include multi-factor authentication.
Whether your practice is near Dell Seton Medical Center downtown or serves families out in Bastrop, our client portal development work for Austin area clinics begins with the questions your front desk answers most often.
- Intake forms completed before the visit
- Appointment details and reminders
- Insurance card and document uploads
- Secure messages routed to the right staff member
Portals for manufacturing customers and sales clients
A manufacturer's customers want order status, ship dates, quality certificates and service history without emailing a sales rep. A portal tied to your operations system answers those questions directly. Our Industrial Operations Platform, a quote-to-service operating system for a private industrial company, shows how much of the customer conversation can come from data you already keep.
Sales organizations have a similar need after the deal. In Rep Hub, a contract that is signed and paid triggers delivery and commissions. A customer view on top of that flow can show the signed contract, payment status and next steps, which cuts the follow-up calls reps would otherwise handle.
In both cases, the portal is only as good as the data behind it. We connect it to the records your team already keeps, so a customer sees the same status your staff see, and nobody has to remember to post an update by hand.
- Order and job status for manufacturing customers
- Certificates, inspection records and service history
- Signed contracts and payment status for sales clients
- Requests and uploads routed to the right staff member
The system handles
- Status updates to clients
- Document reminders
- Access by role
Your people decide
- Answering questions
- Approving changes
- Managing the relationship
Launch: inviting clients and earning the second visit
A portal only helps if clients use it. We keep sign-in simple, make the home screen answer the top question at a glance, and design for phones first, since that is where many clients will open it. Your staff get a short script for pointing callers to the portal, and invitations go out in groups so any rough edges get fixed early.
Behind the friendly front, security is strict. Each client sees only their own records, enforced by role-based access, with encryption, multi-factor sign-in and monitoring throughout. We follow our five steps, Discover, Design, Build, Launch and Optimize, and during Build you test working software with a few real clients. Where your existing systems offer APIs or integration options, the portal connects to them. You own the code and the data, and we treat adoption as part of client portal development rather than an afterthought.