# Share a project with a customer

Name the customer of a project, choose who may see it with its visibility, and invite the customer's people to follow or edit its tasks from the portal.

A project can be kept inside the team, opened to every employee, or shared with the customer's people through the portal, the part of the site where contacts sign in to see what concerns them. Three settings decide it: the project's customer, its visibility and its collaborators. This page uses the demo project Home Construction, whose customer is Acme Corporation.

## Before you start {#before-you-start}

- Changing a project's settings and sharing it need the **Administrator** access right on **Project**.
- The people you invite are contacts: [Contacts](/docs/contacts).

## Name the customer {#customer}

Open the project from **Project/Configuration/Projects**. The **Customer** field shows on the project once **Billable** is ticked in its **Settings** tab, because a customer is the one who pays for the project; invoicing itself is explained with [Quotations](/docs/quotations) and [Customer invoices](/docs/customer-invoices).

![A billable project names its customer on the main tab.](https://jaah.app/web/image/15168-21b84347/projects-share-a-project-with-a-customer-project_customer-en.png)

The tasks of the project take its customer by default, in their own **Customer** field. That customer receives the e-mails set on the stages, such as the request acknowledgment and the rating request: [Projects automations](projects-automations).

## Choose the visibility {#visibility}

Open the **Settings** tab. **Visibility** offers four choices:

| Visibility | Who sees the project |
|---|---|
| **Invited internal users** | Only the employees who follow the project, or a task of it; assignees follow their tasks |
| **Invited internal and portal users** | The same, and the portal users who follow it |
| **All internal users** | Every employee, with all its tasks |
| **All internal users and invited portal users** | Every employee, and the portal users who follow the project or a task |

![The four visibilities of a project; the last one lets invited portal users in.](https://jaah.app/web/image/15172-16ed27e0/projects-share-a-project-with-a-customer-visibility-en.png)

A line under the choices recalls what the chosen visibility means. An employee who follows a task, or is assigned to it, can open it even without access to its project.

## Invite collaborators {#share}

With one of the two visibilities that let portal users in, choose **Actions**, **Share Project** on the project's form (or **Share Project** in the menu of its card).

![The public link of the project, and the list of collaborators with their access mode.](https://jaah.app/web/image/15176-2db445ab/projects-share-a-project-with-a-customer-share_dialog-en.png)

The window shows the **Public Link**, a read-only page of the project for anyone who has the address. Below it, click **Add a line** for each person, choose the contact and an **Access Mode**:

- **Read**: they see the tasks in the portal, without changing them.
- **Edit with limited access**: they see and edit the tasks they follow, in a board of the portal.
- **Edit**: they see and edit all the tasks, and choose which ones to follow.

Tick **Send Invitation** to e-mail each of them a link; a contact who has no portal account yet receives a link to create one. Then click **Share Project**. The people become followers of the project and, in an edit mode, its collaborators.

On a phone, **Actions** stays at the top of the form, next to **New**.

## FAQ {#faq}

### I do not see Share Project. {#no-share}

The visibility of the project keeps portal users out. Choose **Invited internal and portal users** or **All internal users and invited portal users** first.

### How do I stop sharing with someone? {#stop-sharing}

Open **Share Project** again, delete the person's line and confirm with **Share Project**, or with **Save** when no line is left.

### Where is the Customer field on my project? {#no-customer}

It appears once **Billable** is ticked in the **Settings** tab.

### What does the customer see with Read? {#read-mode}

The project and its tasks in the portal, as they are, without any way to change them.

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- Source: https://jaah.app/docs/projects/share-a-project-with-a-customer
- Updated: 2026-10-28
- Version: Projects and timesheets 19.0.1.4
- Verified: 2026-10-28