Help Center: License for customers

[Mike Ottiano]

Can customers use the Help Center Portal without a license?  I read that customers do not need a license to use the portal but when I set it up a license is need for them.  How can I setup Jira for customers to use the portal without license?

[Joseph Chung Yin · Accepted solution]

@Mike Ottiano -

For JSM Cloud env, customers doesn't need to have license to access the portal UI.  However, they will need to have a valid Atlassian account (personal account) to access your JSM projects.  This also assume that you already configured your env and project where customers are assigned with the project's "Service Desk Customers" project role.

Hope this helps.

Best, Joseph Chung Yin

Jira/JSM Functional Lead, Global Technology Applications Team

Viasat Inc.

[AMOS]

You have to set your project to allow non-licenses user

[Mike Ottiano]

How do I do that?

[Vaishali Patil]

You can add customers. Here is help page https://confluence.atlassian.com/servicemanagementserver/adding-customers-939926467.html#Addingcustomers-Addcustomerstoanorganization

[Benjamin Ly]

Hi @Mike Ottiano ,

Just need to set your project to allow non-licensed user to be added as customers to the portal. Can do this in the project settings. After that, you can just add the customers to the portal or you can allow customers you self add themselves.

Here's some useful documentation to guide you through the setup:

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-service-management-cloud/docs/set-up-and-manage-portal-access/

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-service-management-cloud/docs/change-project-customer-permissions/

-Ben

[Mike Ottiano]

Under Customer Access the below are enabled.

• Use approved domains  
• Allow customers to create accounts

Under Customer Permissions

• Service project access: Anyone allowed on the customer access settings

Still not working, what am I missing?