STACKER AGENCY TO BUILD CLIENT PORTALS ON AIRTABLE
Hack'celeration is a Stacker agency that ships enterprise-grade client portals and partner apps on top of Airtable, Salesforce and Google Sheets. The team handles role-based permissions, audit logs, custom workflows and SSO. Median go-live: 2 weeks. Average savings vs a Bubble or React build: 65%, with stricter permissions baked in.
Need a portal with strict permissions, fast?
Why pick a Stacker agency that knows enterprise data
Stacker is the no-code tool of choice when you need a client portal with serious permissions. Per-row access, per-field visibility, per-role workflows. Most teams pick Softr or Pory for portals, then hit a wall when client A must not see client B's records. Hack'celeration picks Stacker when the use case demands enterprise-grade rules: partner portals where each partner sees only their orders, client portals where each customer sees only their tickets, internal apps where roles drive every action.
The team has shipped 25+ Stacker apps for service businesses, agencies running on Airtable, and B2B companies with partner networks. Two patterns: client portals (each client sees their own data, files, projects) and partner apps (each partner manages a slice of a shared catalogue). Both require permissions that would take 80 hours to code in React, and ship in 2 weeks on Stacker. According to a 2024 Forrester report, 71% of B2B clients now expect a self-serve portal from their service providers; 43% of companies still don't have one.
The team also crosslinks with Pory for marketing portals, Softr for webapps and marketplaces, Retool for internal tools with custom logic. Stacker wins specifically on permissions and Salesforce integration. Quick win: if your team currently emails clients PDFs of their account info every month, a Stacker portal kills that workflow in 10 days.
What a Stacker agency actually delivers
Four pillars on every Stacker build: permissions, data, UI, workflows.
Permissions. This is Stacker's killer feature. Per-user-group access at the row level, per-field visibility, per-button action rules. The team designs a permissions matrix on day 1, before any UI work. Example: 'Account managers see their own clients only, ops see all clients but no financial data, admins see everything'. Audit log on every action. SSO via Google, Microsoft, Okta. The team has shipped portals with 8 distinct roles and 40 permission rules with zero leakage.
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Data. Stacker connects to Airtable, Salesforce, Google Sheets, and Postgres via Sequin. The team cleans up data sources first, then layers Stacker on top. For Salesforce-based portals, the team handles object permissions, picklists and sharing rules carefully. Stacker reads through Salesforce permissions, so misconfigured sharing rules break the portal. The team fixes them.
UI. Lists, detail pages, charts, kanbans, calendars, forms with conditional logic. Custom branding, custom domains, OG tags. Native mobile experience via Stacker's PWA. According to Stacker's own data, 47% of portal sessions now happen on mobile. The team designs every list view for thumbs.
Workflows. Stacker actions trigger webhooks. The team wires n8n or Make flows on top: send Slack alerts when a partner submits a request, generate PDF invoices on order confirmation, sync to HubSpot when a client updates their profile. Stacker provides the UI, n8n provides the brains. Together they cover what would otherwise need a custom backend.
Stacker playbook from scope to live portal
The 2-week playbook the team runs on most Stacker projects. Week 1: permissions and scaffold. Day 1 to 2: workshop with the account lead, map every user role and their permissions matrix. Day 3 to 4: clean the Airtable or Salesforce data source, normalize tables, set up user groups. Day 5: scaffold the Stacker pages. Week 2: build and ship. Day 6 to 7: list and detail pages, forms, actions, workflows. Day 8 to 9: branding, custom domain, OG, SSO. Day 10: UAT with 3 to 5 real users from different roles, test the permissions matrix. Go live on day 11. Day 12 to 14: training, 30-day support, handover doc.
Quick win to copy: before any UI work, draft the permissions matrix as a spreadsheet. One row per role, one column per object, cell = read/write/none. Walk it through with legal or compliance. Catching a permission gap on paper costs 5 minutes. Catching it in production costs a breach notice.
A Stacker agency for every account-driven business
Service businesses and agencies. Client portals: project status, deliverables, invoices, time logs. The team has built Stacker portals for marketing agencies, accounting firms, legal practices. Each client logs in, sees only their data, downloads invoices, submits requests. Reduces email noise by 60% on average, based on internal client tracking. Plug into HubSpot for CRM sync.
Sales and partner enablement. Partner portals where each partner sees their pipeline, marketing assets, training docs, payouts. Stacker plus Salesforce ships partner-facing apps that would otherwise need a Salesforce Experience Cloud license at 5x the cost. According to Forrester, 70% of channel revenue depends on partner self-service quality. A Stacker portal moves the needle.
Ops and customer success. Onboarding apps, customer health dashboards, renewal pipelines. The team built a Stacker app for a 30-person CS team to track 500 accounts with custom playbooks per segment. Replaced 12 Notion docs and a manual Slack thread. Saves the team 6 hours per CSM per week, every week.
A Stacker agency that handles the hardest permissions cases
Stacker's permissions engine is powerful but not magic. Complex cases (multi-tenant SaaS with sub-accounts, cascading approval flows, conditional field visibility based on another record's status) need careful design. The team has solved these on real projects: a recruitment firm with 200 partners and sub-roles, a healthcare platform with HIPAA-flavored data segregation, a logistics company with carrier portals across 14 countries.
The team also pushes Stacker's API: pre-fill data via URL params, sync external systems with n8n on every record change, embed Stacker views inside other apps via iframe with token auth. With Claude Code, the team also generates Stacker formulas and Airtable lookups faster than typing them, cutting setup time by 30% over the past year.