Spectora: Client Portal

Spectora is the market leader in home inspection software. The client portal is the key touchpoint between home inspectors and their clients.

Design

Strategy

Information

Architecture

Product

Enhancements

Spectora: Client Portal

Spectora is the market leader in home inspection software. The client portal is the key touchpoint between home inspectors and their clients.

Design

Strategy

Information

Architecture

Product

Enhancements

OVERVIEW

Our team focused on redesigning the client portal with several key objectives in mind: • Clearly communicate that clients must sign and pay before their inspection. • Enhance partnership conversions. • Upgrade the tech stack from Rails to Vue3. We gathered insights from customers, sales, and the customer service team. I also conducted a UX review of the current portal, which helped shape our final requirements.

MY ROLE

Lead Designer UX + Visual design

OVERVIEW

Our team focused on redesigning the client portal with several key objectives in mind: • Clearly communicate that clients must sign and pay before their inspection. • Enhance partnership conversions. • Upgrade the tech stack from Rails to Vue3. We gathered insights from customers, sales, and the customer service team. I also conducted a UX review of the current portal, which helped shape our final requirements.

MY ROLE

Lead Designer UX + Visual design

Inspector View

Based on stakeholder feedback, user research and business needs, these were our key objectives for the inspector view.

  • Simplify portal management by reducing friction and centralizing how inspectors access, customize, and update their client portal

  • Increase inspector control and adoption through improved branding, messaging customization, and clearer pathways to using Spectora’s payment platform

  • Enable future partnerships and experimentation by modernizing the portal’s underlying technology and user interface

Previous Client Portal Admin side

Client View

Based on stakeholder feedback, user research and business needs, these were our key objectives for the client view.

  • Reduce missed actions by clearly signaling when users had a required step to complete

  • Improve message clarity and relevance by highlighting that inspectors could customize client-facing messaging

  • Increase partnership adoption through clearer visibility and integration of partnership offers

Previous Client Portal client view

Results

  • Many users were happy with the updates, and anecdotally we heard fewer reports of issues receiving payments. However, we did not have a reliable way to directly measure success for this metric at the time.

  • A small but vocal group raised concerns that the red icon felt overly alarmist. In response, we updated the icon to a more subtle treatment and identified customization as a future enhancement.

Real World Review of Client Portal

Jeff Battson

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