Customize Colors of your Customer Self Service Portal

Customize Colors of your Customer Self Service Portal

You asked for it. We heard you. We're happy to roll out the most sought after feature request, Customizing the Colors of your Customer Self-service Portal. Now you can set the color of your customer portal to mimic your company's web site, so that your customers visiting the portal will not feel alienated by the default theme. 

Go ahead and configure the color of the header, tabs, fonts and background according to your needs. You can either choose between default color themes like Blue, Grey, Green and Maroon or pick your own color by selecting the Custom option. 

Customer Support Portal Theme

 To keep it simple, you are provided with a demo window of the portal to have a look at the changes as and when they are effected. The demo window is also provided with marked up areas for easy reference while changing the colors. 

You can learn more about this feature at this  link. 

We would like to know your feedback on this feature. Please drop us a comment here or connect with us on  Twitter  a nd  Facebook. 



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