Configure Business Portal

  • Release version: Yokohama
  • Updated January 30, 2025
  • 1 minute to read
  • Configure the business portal to provide information and support for your customers.

    Before you begin

    Role required: admin

    About this task

    The Business Portal is a self-service web portals based on the Service Portal application.

    The Business Portal supports your business-to-business (B2B) customers.

    Use the portals to provide information and support for your customers. The portals provides ready to use features that require minimal setup. These include:
    • Header and footer with links for different customer activities.
    • Home page provides a summary of essential items to the logged-in user.
    • Hierarchical menu to systematically navigate to different portal pages.
    • Unified browse experience for knowledge and catalog through taxonomy topics.
    • List pages to browse, search, and filter through records of cases, products, orders, and others.
    • Record view pages to view key information, related actions, related lists, and quick links of a record.

    You can add additional self-service capabilities such as order management by installing the respective plugin.

    Note:
    The Business Portal Store app is automatically installed when you install the Customer Service Portal store app. For details, see Activate the Consumer and Customer Service Portals.

    Procedure

    1. Navigate to All > Service Portal > Portals.
    2. On the Service Portals page, in the Title column, enter *business portal.
    3. Select Business Portal.
      A page opens in your instance where you can configure the Business Portal.
    4. Clear Inactive check box.
      Note:
      The business portal is inactive by default.
    5. Select Update.
      You can access the business portal using the URL, <servicenow instance URL>/business_portal.