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Own vs rented portal
Most tuning file services start with email, try a rented portal, then decide whose brand and whose payment accounts the customer should see. Here is what to compare before you choose.
Email is free and every customer already has it. It breaks when files, vehicle details, payment and support live in separate threads: the tuner asks for the ECU again, the credit balance sits in a spreadsheet and nobody sees the status without asking.
A rented portal solves intake, but the terms differ from vendor to vendor. Ask these before you move your customers onto someone else’s platform.
ECU Tuning Portal runs on your domain with your logo, colours, invoices and contact details. Portal pricing takes no share of your tuning revenue, customer payments go to your own provider accounts, and the one-time plan can run on your own server or in the cloud.
Whatever you compare, check that one request can run from upload to download without leaving the portal. In ECU Tuning Portal it runs like this.
Rented portals price differently from vendor to vendor, so only our own prices are worked through here, as the pricing page states them. API access is left out on both plans: it is free in the first year and a paid add-on after that.
The yearly plan suits a service that wants hosting, updates and support handled for as long as it runs. The one-time plan suits one where ownership matters and the portal may run on its own server.
Email is enough while requests are few enough to track by hand. Dealers, credit balances and status questions are where it starts to cost time, as the first section shows.
Choosing a portal| ECU Tuning Portal | Rented portal | Email and spreadsheets | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brand | Your domain, logo, colours and invoices | Check whether the vendor’s name stays visible | Your mailbox; no customer portal |
| Cost model | Yearly €399 + €120 setup, or €699 one-time; no per-file fee | Check per-file, per-customer and per-seat fees | No software fee; the cost is your time |
| File intake | Four-step upload with vehicle, options, file and reading device | Check which vehicle details the form requires | Attachments with whatever the customer remembers |
| Dealers | A customer account per dealer, with group pricing and master or slave credit | Check how dealer prices and credit types are set | Price lists kept by hand |
| Payments | Stripe, PayPal, Wise and bank transfer into your own accounts | Check whether payments pass through the vendor | Invoices and transfers by hand |
| Languages | 25 portal languages, including RTL | Check the language list | Whatever you write yourself |
| Hosting | Managed hosting, or your own server on the one-time plan | On the vendor’s platform | Your mail provider |
| Cost over three years | €1,317 on the yearly plan, or €897 one-time hosted by us | Add every per-file, per-customer and per-seat fee for three years | No software fee; three years of your time |
| Updates after year one | Included on the yearly plan; €240 per update year on the one-time plan | Check whether updates are part of the subscription | Not applicable |
| If you leave | The one-time plan keeps running on your own server | Check whether your customers and file history can leave with you | Your mailbox stays yours |
No. Portal pricing does not take a share of your tuning revenue.
Yes. The seven-day trial opens the full portal without a payment card.
Yes. The portal runs on your hostname with TLS and your branding.
The yearly plan comes to €1,317 with hosting, updates and support. The one-time plan hosted by us comes to €897, or €1,377 with an update year bought for years two and three.
The yearly plan includes managed hosting and updates. The one-time plan suits you when ownership and running it on your own server matter.
Yes. The migration service moves your customers and file history for a one-time €120 once the source format is reviewed.
Into your own Stripe, PayPal, Wise or bank account, and portal pricing takes no share of your tuning revenue.
Most workshops are live within a week after domain, content and payment details are ready.
