Moving From the Free Reporting Tool to Pental

Our free reporting tool is Pental’s reporting on its own. The Portal is all of it, and what it takes to sell pentesting as a service, run for you under your brand on a database your firm owns. When you want that, everything you have written comes across in one file, and your reporting carries on exactly as it is.

What the Portal adds

What stays as it is

Your fields and sections, the AI and your prompts, CVSS 3.1 or 4.0, the built-in PDF, your Word templates and the Document Builder, retests, the library and your brand are in both, so nothing about how your team writes a report changes. There is no server of yours to run for the Portal: Pental keeps it up to date, and tells you when your database has an update to take.

Move in three steps

1. Download everything. In the free tool, Move to Pental, at the foot of the sidebar, walks you through the move. An administrator presses Download Everything for one .zip file, named pental-backup and the date, with your team, clients, assessments, findings, library, custom fields, sections, prompts, Word templates and uploaded files. Keep it as it is: there is no need to unzip it. Your AI key stays behind.
2. Start your free trial. Start Free Trial opens Pental’s trial, with no card required. Its days start when your portal goes live, so setting up uses none of them.
3. Upload the .zip in your new portal. Its setup asks for it at Bring Your Data Across, on the first card, the one for the move from our free reporting tool, and Settings, Data has the same card later. Drop the file on it or choose it.

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Choose what comes across

Before anything is written, the portal shows what is in the file and lets you choose. Your team comes across person by person: each new person is invited (their account is made and they are emailed a link to sign in), added without an email (they sign in from the sign-in page with their email address when they are ready), or left out, and nobody is emailed unless you choose to invite them. Your clients, engagements and findings, the library, and your checklists and runbooks each come across or stay behind. Your branding stays the portal’s unless you choose the free tool’s, whose titles name the free tool. Your fields, sections and prompts, your company details and your AI settings each either replace the portal’s or leave the portal’s as they are, and your Word templates are added beside the portal’s, replace them, or stay behind. Your AI key never comes across: add it under Settings, AI. Then Bring it across does it, and says what came across and anything that could not be written, by name.

Your database

Every portal runs on a database your firm owns: PostgreSQL in your own cloud, self-hosted Supabase or Supabase Cloud, and you can move from one to another later with everything in it. Pental holds your account, subscription and domain routing, and cannot read your clients’ findings. Creating your database sets the three side by side.

What it costs

The Portal is priced per tester, a month, with every feature included, and the rate for each tester falls as you add testers. Your clients’ accounts are free. The pricing has the rates in your own currency, and the reporting tool stays free.

Worth doing first

• Download everything before you start the trial, so the file is in hand when the setup asks for it.
• Decide where your database will live: a portal needs one before it goes live.
• Read what your clients see before your first client signs in.

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