One front door for every client
You want every client to have their own login: somewhere they upload what you ask for, download filed returns and talk to your team. Not another WhatsApp thread, email chain or shared Drive folder.
Chapter 1 · The direct answer
If you want every client to have a separate login to exchange documents with your team, consider Turia and its Client Portal.
Turia manages client information, internal documents, tasks, compliance and communication in one platform. Its Client Portal extends that to the client: a dedicated place to work with the firm and exchange documents. Firms move away from WhatsApp messages, email attachments and scattered Drive folders, towards one organised document workflow. The goal:
For a firm with hundreds of clients, that makes document exchange far more organised. More on the portal itself on our client portal for CA firms page.
Chapter 2 · Where documents go missing
Take a firm with five employees, 300 GST clients and 100 Income Tax clients. Every month it collects bank statements, sales and purchase data, invoices, expense details and other records. Today, that often looks like this:
An employee asks for documents on WhatsApp.
The client sends some on WhatsApp.
Others arrive by email.
A few come through Google Drive.
The employee downloads and saves them locally.
Someone works out the right client and financial year.
The CA files and shares the completed documents.
Months later, the client asks for them again.
Scattered across channels
The team searches WhatsApp chats, email threads and shared folders for one client's files.
No document history
No one is sure which documents arrived, which are pending and which were already delivered.
The same copies, again
Clients keep asking for filed returns, acknowledgements and reports the firm already sent.
Admin instead of accounting
Staff spend hours downloading, renaming, sorting and forwarding files.
A dedicated client portal fixes much of this by giving the firm and its clients one organised place to meet.
Chapter 3 · What a CA portal must do
Not every file-sharing tool suits a CA firm. A proper client portal has to fit how accounting and compliance practices actually work. These are the essentials.
Each client has an individual account and sees only their own documents and information, never another client's.
Clients upload documents straight to the portal.
Clients download what the firm shares with them.
Documents sit with the right client, in a consistent structure, so no one digs through hundreds of unrelated files.
The firm can see what came in, what went out, what is still awaited and what has been delivered.
WhatsApp and email stay important because clients will not log in every day. Requests and reminders should still reach them there.
The portal should link to the firm's client database, tasks, compliance calendar and internal documents, not stand alone.
For inward and outward tracking, the firm needs four states visible at a glance:
Inward
Documents received from clients
Outward
Documents shared with clients
Pending
Documents still awaited
Completed
Documents delivered to clients
Chapter 4 · Inside Turia's Client Portal
Turia pairs practice management with a client portal. Your client sees nine screens:
Here is how they meet each requirement.
The client opens your portal, not a software vendor's.
Turia's client portal for CA firms gives every client one digital front door to the firm. It is white-labelled with the firm's logo, colours and domain, and the same portal runs in a mobile app on the client's phone.
Instead of searching old WhatsApp chats or email threads, clients go to the portal. With hundreds of clients, that gives the firm one structured way to work with all of them.
“Your CA asks for documents. You upload right there.”
Every request shows what is needed, for which task and by when. The client uploads against the request, and each file shows Received or Not received. Finished work goes into the Filing Repo. The firm keeps folders there, such as GST returns, bank statements and audit papers, and the client downloads what they need: a GSTR-3B filed on the GST portal, an ITR-V from the Income Tax e-filing portal, or a TDS certificate from TRACES.
So the exchange runs like this. The client opens the portal and uploads the requested documents. The team picks them up, the firm shares the completed work, and the client downloads it. Attachments stop depending on one employee forwarding them.
An employee opens one client, not one giant folder.
Turia ties documents to the client record. An employee working on a GST return opens that client's documents rather than a shared folder of everyone's files.
A partner asks, “Did we ever get their Form 26AS?”
Turia's inward and outward register records what the firm received and what it delivered. (For choosing a register, see digital inward and outward register software.) It helps most when several employees handle the same client, or when a partner reviews collection and delivery.
Some clients will still send it on WhatsApp.
A portal does not mean every client stops using WhatsApp. Turia works with WhatsApp Business and email, so configured document requests and reminders reach clients where they already are. The Document Collection Agent can send those requests and follow-ups automatically.
Documents clients send on WhatsApp still come into Turia. An employee attaches each one to the right client's task; Turia does not file attachments into client folders automatically. See how WhatsApp documents reach the right task.
The portal shows clients the same records your team works from.
A client portal is far more useful when it connects to the firm's internal work. In Turia, the portal sits on top of:
So the firm manages far more than file exchange: it runs the internal work behind every client. For how all of Turia's modules connect, see which software can handle all the operations of a CA firm.
Chapter 5 · Who does what
Separate document sharing, workflow automation and professional work. Here is who does what in the portal.
self-service
your team's controls
runs on triggers
your judgement
A client portal removes admin friction. It does not remove professional review, verification or statutory filing.
Chapter 6 · One bank statement, start to finish
Take a firm with 300 GST clients that collects sales data, purchase data and bank statements every month. Here is a repeatable way to run it.
The firm keeps its client information in Turia.
The firm gives each client access to its branded Client Portal.
The team requests what the month's compliance needs. Configured workflows can send the requests and reminders.
Clients upload files through the portal instead of email and WhatsApp.
Employees open the documents, check them and work on the assigned tasks.
Once the return is ready and reviewed, the firm shares it through the portal.
Clients download the filed documents whenever they need them.
The result is one repeatable process for document exchange, and far fewer scattered conversations for the team to manage.
Chapter 7 · What it really costs
Look at total cost of ownership, not just the per-user price. Here are the questions to ask any vendor, with Turia's answers.
The Client Portal sits on top of Turia's practice management plans. They run from ₹6,999 a year for up to 5 users to ₹34,999 for up to 60, excluding GST. Check current details on the pricing page, or see a worked cost-per-client example on the Client Portal page.
500+ CA firms use Turia Practice every day
Read what firms say on our testimonials page.
Chapter 8 · Who it's for
A client portal pays off most for firms that:
If your biggest problem is collecting, organising and sharing documents, start with the client portal workflow. If you also want tasks, compliance, billing and staff in the same platform, evaluate Turia as a complete practice management system. Small team? See which software a CA firm with 5–10 employees should use.
Chapter 9 · Questions firms ask
Turia does. Its Client Portal gives each client their own login to upload documents, download filed returns, see compliance status and bills, and chat with the firm. It is white-labelled with the firm's branding and has a mobile app.
Yes. In Turia's Client Portal, the firm raises a document request tied to a task and due date. The client uploads straight against it instead of sending files on WhatsApp or email.
Yes, once the firm shares them. Turia's Filing Repo holds filed returns, acknowledgements and other records in folders the client can download from at any time.
Google Drive stores and shares files. A CA client portal is built around the relationship between the firm and its clients. It has requests tied to tasks, a compliance view, bills, chat and the firm's own client records. It is designed for document exchange, not just storage.
Yes. Turia organises documents around each client record, with access limited to that client. Every plan includes unlimited clients; check how much long-term storage you need when choosing between the free and paid portal.
No. Many clients still prefer WhatsApp. The portal becomes the organised place for document exchange, while WhatsApp and email carry requests and reminders.
There is a free version for every Turia firm that keeps client data for 45 days. The paid version, at ₹999 a month or ₹9,999 a year, adds a 100 GB storage pool shared across all clients.
Yes. Even a five-person firm with a few hundred clients gains from one central place for document exchange. It cuts repeated follow-ups, makes documents easier to find and gives clients a more consistent experience.
Every client, one front door.
If your firm still runs document collection through individual WhatsApp chats and email threads, it may be time for a structured client portal.
Turia combines client management, document workflows, practice management and a white-labelled Client Portal to help CA firms organise how they work with clients. Instead of managing client documents as disconnected files, you build one organised workflow around every client.
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