Portal access is how your portal manages which companies have access to your private marketplace and therefore which companies are able to match their projects with your private experiences.

You can build your network of companies as you continue to engage with new companies and projects you meet through Riipen's open marketplace, or you can choose to invite your existing network of companies to join you on Riipen directly and instantly get started matching with their projects all in one spot.

Companies with portal access will be able to visit your portal's custom subdomain and engage directly with your portal.

These companies will have the ability to submit projects directly to your portal's private marketplace of projects. You will then be able to browse these projects at any time and match them to your experiences. These projects will not be listed anywhere else on Riipen by default, such as the open marketplace, and will only be made available to your portal.

Using portal access and having companies submit projects directly to your private marketplace is the best way to build your own ecosystem of trusted companies and projects and make them available to your educators and experiences within your portal.

The easiest way to get start with building your private network of companies is to invite or import your existing network.

Riipen supports both individualized custom invites for bring in companies a handful at a time, or large scale imports which can be used to bring in an unlimited number of companies quickly.

If you don't have an existing network of companies you want to bring into your portal, you can always meet and vet new companies through the use of the open marketplace and by setting up portal access applications.

Portal access applications allow you to list your portal for companies to find, who can then apply for portal access and be asked any number of custom questions you set in order to determine the best-fit companies that you want to provide access to.

Once you bring a company into your portal, you can interact with them directly, manage their access, and more. Check out our full company management guides for more details.

You can invite a company to your portal by:

If you have at least 1 department created for your portal you will be able to invite companies to a department directly.

Once the form is complete, an import will be created and you can monitor the successful progress of your invitations. For more information on importing companies into your portal, please see the full documentation here.

If you have many companies you would like to issue portal access to in bulk, you can use the importing tool directly to important an unlimited number of companies at a time. For more information on importing companies into your portal, please see the full documentation here.

Once you have invited a company, you can view the pending invite by following these steps:

To cancel a pending portal access invite:

If you would like companies to have the ability to apply for portal access and have portal administrators review and accept or decline, you can enable this feature by following these steps:

If your portal has portal access applications enabled, you can provide prospective companies a direct link to your portal to allow them to sign up and request access directly. You can also get this link by following these steps:

You can set any number of questions a company must answer while applying for portal access by following these steps:

All companies applying for portal access will now be presented with these questions as part of their application process.

If you would like to disable companies from having the ability to apply for portal access, follow these steps:

To view an application for a portal access:

To accept a portal access application:

The company will be issued a portal access on acceptance.

To decline a portal access application:

When portal access is granted to a company, they will see a confirmation page detailing that they have been awarded portal access, next steps on how to use it, and what it means for them. You can add custom text to this page by following these steps:

Suspending portal access will prevent the company from adding any new projects to your portal's marketplace and will remove any existing projects from it.

If you wish to re-activate a company's portal access:

Revoking portal access will delete the company's access, thus preventing the company from adding any new projects to your portal's marketplace and will remove any existing projects from it.