Web Portal Development Services

A web portal is a secure online platform, giving access to certain data, options, and functionality via intuitive interface design. It gives the user personalized information on a certain topic, for example, employee training materials, safety manuals, or a unique customer profile to improve the way the company, its employees, suppliers, and customers interact with each other.

You can find some bright examples of custom web portals among our niche products: Otomate - an online platform for inventory management, DogQ - software testing automation tool; as well as custom web portals built for our clients: an insurance billing platform Zentist, a cryptocurrency management tool Stacks, etc. You can also study cases by our web portal development company above on this page to find some more examples of custom web portals.

There are two types of web portals by the principle of their work: vertical or horizontal. Vertical web portals are specific business applications such as service management, accounting, finance, BPM, CRM, ERP, etc., enabling users to monitor, edit and contribute to processes within this application. In horizontal web portals, users can see and manage the data aggregated from multiple applications via a single point of truth, with no need to log in several times. It commonly takes the form of a reporting system with KPIs from various business sources.

By the target audience and respective functions, portals can be either B2B or B2C. The first type is aimed at business-business collaboration, while the last one concentrates on business-user communication.

Divided by domain, our web portal development services can be patient, eCommerce, vendor, eLearning (intranet) portals, community, and collaboration portals. You can get more relevant information on this topic here.

The main benefits of web portals are removal of back-office management and optimized operability, improved client-user communication and business partners collaboration, high usability, and 24/7 availability, transparent and real-time data management, company’s KPIs growth and faster time to market, customers loyalty, and higher awareness of the company’s services.

A web portal is a highly functional, dynamic, personalized, and interactive single point of truth with numerous operations on data available to each user, which is often integrated with custom and third-party tools. While a website represents static, informational content, with no personalization and need in authentication, rarely integrated with other systems like CRM, ERP, BPM, etc.

Custom web portal application development costs depend on several factors, such as the chosen design and hosting, the development complexity, the team size, and its expertise, the wanted due date, etc., so the final sum is individual, but in most cases, it starts from 30000$. If you want to know how much a custom portal will cost in your case, either you can’t decide on the design or the number of engineers needed for the portal, you can always consult our specialists for free on this and any other questions.

Our team of specialists always works to its full to get each portal working as soon as possible. In every case of custom web portal creation, we discuss timeline preferences and needs individually with the client, but still, you can consider an approximate period of 3-6 months to get your custom web portal designed, built, tested, and launched into production by our software specialists.

If you are a software developer and already have a website, you can build a web portal on your own by following these 8 web portal development steps one by one:

1. decide on the aim, functionality, and the target audience of your portal;
2. think of its software architecture and web interface;
3. choose a technical solution you will use;
4. upload all the needed web portal development software to your website and install it according to the directions;
5. customize the web portal according to your set goals;
6. estimate its UI\UX on user-friendliness, intuitive design, etc. and improve these criteria if needed;
7. arrange a seria if tests to check whether the final version matches your set goals;
8. when everything is okay, market your web portal.

If you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact our technical specialists.

The basic functionality that portal software development engineers should consider includes:

1. the ability for the customers to log in and see the needed information and updates for the day;
2. a set of options and commands to fulfill the needed operations, for example, to book a ticket, to place an order, or to upload the report;
3. centralized access to documents and information, quick content search, transparent portal navigation;

Plus to the basic functions, it’s good if the portal web development includes:

4. an option of communicating with other portal users together with documents, images, and reports sharing;
5. common access to the needed documentation and simultaneous work therein;
6. data-driven reports and personal user analytics over the data in the certain categories or time periods.

Fively as a custom web portal development company builds secure portals by providing a password-protected single access point, typically via 256-bit TLS security encryption, that lets our clients log into a private portal account enabling them to view, download, edit, and modify the needed data as well as perform numerous actions related thereto. By following cybersecurity best practices and standards in the development of each web portal we can guarantee our clients private access to personal data at different sections of our portals, such as analytical reports, business partners' data, associates, customers' updates, vendor lists, etc.

Web software development is typically divided into the following stages:

1. project information gathering: company’s industry, niche, target audience, customers, desired project outcomes, and benefits;
2. compiling a development plan: choosing the right technical stack, software tools, platform, and architecture, as well as the estimation of the needed team size and setting the timeline for the project;
3. implementation stage: step by step project building by software developers team according to the set timeline for each sprint and the principles of agile development;
4. testing of the ready-made product: checking whether the final software product work as it expected on multiple devices and browsers types with the help of automated QA testing tools and manual scripts;
5. launching the website: setting all the needed platform infrastructure for the product to start working on-line.

At Fively we use numerous modern and robust front-end and back-end web portal development software, namely Vue.js, React, Angular, WebAssemply, Node.js, JQuery, Python, PHP, Visual Studio Code, BootStrap, etc. You can also read about the best web portal development tools for eCommerce here.