ePlace Portal Help

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ePlace Portal Help Center

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The City of Duluth is happy to offer our residents a unified login for the Utility Access Portal, ePlace Portal, and other upcoming portals.  This allows customers to have one set of login credentials and eliminate the need for multiple password and username combinations.  

 

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Registering for the Utility Access Customer Portal

Sign in or Sign Up Screen of the Utility Access Portal 

 Sign in to the Utility Access Portal.  If you have used the city eplace portal for a permit, plan, or license, use those login credentials. If you are a first-time user, select Create an Account at the bottom.

Create an account button in Utility Access

Enter your credentials: Email, First Name, Last Name, Mobile Phone, and a Password.  Password Requirements include: 8 characters, an upper case, lower case, a number, and no parts of your username.  Once entered, click Sign Up.

The next screens off an option to use Multi-Factor Authentication for your Auto Pay information.  This is optional.  If you do not want to enable multi-factor authentication, click continue.

Multi-Factor Authentication Options in the Utility Access Portal

At this point, Utility Access validates your email address.  Enter the Code from the email to verify your account creation.

Sample Email from the Utility Access account creation including the verification code

After registering, you are redirected to the ePlace portal to login.

 

Saving a Payment Method in the Customer Portal

To add your payment method(s) in the upper right-hand corner of the portal.  Select the circle with your initials and select Payment Info.

mobile display of the Utility Access portal with the customer identifier and the payment info button highlighted

Enter the payment method(s)

Viewing the saved payment methods in the Utility Access Portal

If you need to edit an expiration date, you can do so by editing the payment method using the pencil on the right-hand side of the payment method.  Users can enter as many payment methods as he or she chooses.

Create one login as the main company login.  

 

Other members of that company can login using their personal login credentials and associate that login with the main company login to view records.

 

Once logged into ePlace, in the upper right-hand corner, click on your user name and select contact manager. 

Contact Manager

Under the My Associations portion, search for the company by name or email.  Once located, select request access

 

This brings up an email box that is directed to the company email for approval.  

company association email approval

The main company login then approves the association and can manage the sub contacts as members of the company change

approve or deny company contact associations

Video Help Library

Registering for the ePlace Portal

Video showing customers how to register for the ePlace portal if the customer does not already have a login with ePlace, the Resident Reporter, or the Utility Access Portal

Submitting an Application

This video walks applicants on the steps needed to apply for a record, select the location, enter contact information and provide details, including attaching the appropriate records for review for each application.

Welcome Screen

An overview video of the welcome screen of the ePlace portal

Signature and Review

This video highlights the final step of submitting an application

Troubleshooting Login Tips

Need assistance with logging in? This video assists customers with login issues, resetting a password, unlocking an account, or updating account information

Map Overview

Video explaining how the map can be used to search, select, and measure or apply for records, view records, and more

Reviews

This video covers electronic review files in the ePlace portal.