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Client portal · Restaurants & hospitality

Client portal development for restaurants.

When customers keep emailing to ask where things stand, the fix is rarely another email. A client portal gives every customer a private, logged-in view of their own documents, status, and payments, and gives your team one organized place to answer them. We design and build portals that fit how your business actually works, working remotely from our Providence, RI studio for clients across the US and Canada. A diner deciding between two places on a Friday night will check the menu, the photos, and whether a table is open, all from a phone. A custom restaurant website answers those three questions in seconds and turns the answer into a reservation or an order without a phone call. For restaurants and hospitality groups, a portal is most useful on the catering and private-events side: clients review proposals, sign the event agreement, pick menus, confirm headcounts, and pay deposits in one place. Your events manager sees every open booking, its balance, and what is still missing before the date.

Quick answer

A client portal for restaurants is a secure, logged-in area of your website where each customer sees their own documents, status, messages, and invoices. GEO Marketing Group designs and builds custom portals starting around $8,000, typically $16,000, working remotely from Providence, RI for businesses across the US and Canada.

What it includes

What client portal builds include for restaurants.

Secure login with password reset, optional two-factor authentication, and per-client permissions

Document exchange with upload, download, version history, and an activity log

Status tracking so clients can see where their project, case, or order stands without calling

Secure messaging with email or text notifications when something needs their attention

Invoices and online payment through Stripe or the processor you already use

An admin side for your team with search, bulk actions, and exportable records

Connects to the tools restaurants already use.

Client portal builds earn their keep when they stop double entry. These are the integrations we most often scope for restaurants; if your stack is different, we map it in discovery.

OpenTable or ResyToast or Square Online orderingDoorDash StorefrontGoogle Business ProfileMailchimp for specials and events

Why restaurants reach for this.

The menu is a PDF

Phone visitors pinch, zoom, and give up. Search engines cannot read the items, and every price change means exporting and re-uploading a file.

Reservations live somewhere else

A booking link that jumps to a third-party page loses guests on the way and hides which page, dish, or search brought the reservation in.

Hours and photos are stale

Holiday hours on Google say one thing, the site says another, and the gallery is from opening week. Guests notice, and some stop trusting both.

Client portal builds start from $8,000. Every project is quoted to its scope.

Concept design · Restaurant

See it for restaurants: Harbor & Vine

A coastal bistro brought online - menu, story, and one-tap reservations.

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A concept design built to show our range for restaurants, an illustrative business rather than a real client.

FAQ

Client portal builds for restaurants: common questions.

How is client data kept secure in a portal?

Every request is authenticated, data is encrypted in transit and at rest, files live in private storage and are served through signed links that expire, and each client can only reach their own records. Access is logged, so you can answer who saw a document and when if the question ever comes up.

Can the portal connect to the software we already use?

Usually, yes. If your CRM, practice-management, accounting, or e-signature tool has an API, the portal can read from it and write back to it, so the portal is a window onto your existing records rather than a second copy of them. We confirm which systems are involved during scoping.

How long does a client portal take to build?

Most portals take six to twelve weeks from scope to launch, depending on how many record types, roles, and integrations are involved. We start with a clickable prototype of the client-facing screens so you can react to the flow before any production code is written.

Ready to scope a client portal build for your restaurant?

Describe the workflow in plain language: who uses it, what they need to see, and what should happen automatically. We come back with a scope, a realistic timeline, and a fixed quote.