Exploring ORCA with Demo Accounts

ORCA comes with five pre-loaded demo accounts filled with realistic data. They're great for getting to grips with the platform, seeing how custom sections work in practice, or showing ORCA to someone new, without touching your real data.

Every authenticated user can access all five demo accounts at any time. No setup, no invitation required.

How to Access a Demo Account

Open the account chooser from the navigation (the account name in the top bar). Your real accounts appear at the top. Below them, under Explore ORCA, you'll find the five demo accounts. Click one to switch into it.

The Five Demo Accounts

Clyde Commons Initiative

A community-led urban regeneration NGO based in Glasgow. They're working with councils, housing associations, and community groups to transform underused urban spaces into something worth having.

The account includes grant-funded project companies, a team of three, and two custom sections: Funding Applications (with a colour-coded Status picklist running from In Prep through to Awarded or Rejected) and Projects (with site photos as file attachments, which appear as thumbnails in the record list and image cards in gallery view).

SKiNT.

An organic, ethical skincare company making products that are good for your skin and don't cost the planet. Small-batch, thoughtfully sourced, no greenwashing.

The account includes partner organisations, a team of three, and two custom sections: Supplier Audits (with a Certification Status picklist) and Retail Partners (with audit report images as file attachments). A good example of what a supplier compliance workflow looks like when it's been running for a while.

Uncommon Miles

A last-mile logistics company built around electric cargo bikes, zero-emission delivery, and a fair-pay gig economy model. Ethical supply chains, practically applied.

The account includes delivery partner and client companies, a team of three, and two custom sections: Service Contracts and Routes (with route map images as file attachments - another good example of file-type entity fields and gallery view in action).

Curtain Call Management

A London talent and acting agency representing actors, voice artists, and presenters. The team manage relationships with casting directors, production companies, and broadcasters across theatre, film, and TV.

The account includes industry contacts (venues, production houses, broadcasters), a team of three, and two custom sections tracking talent pipelines with kanban-enabled status picklists. A good example of ORCA used for professional services and relationship management rather than a product or project workflow.

Tallow Yard

A contemporary art gallery in east London, representing living artists and dealing in the secondary market. They lend work out on approval, put on four or five shows a year, and keep a waiting list of collectors looking for particular things.

Four custom sections: Artists, Works, Shows, and an Interest Register. It's the most fully built of the five, and the best one to look at if you want to see several ORCA features working together rather than one at a time:

• An escalation clock with real teeth. Works out on approval carry a Consigned Until date, and a record automation raises a to-do when one goes past it. That's a legal position rather than an admin annoyance, since title in goods sold on approval can pass on the expiry of a fixed date.
• Money on the shows. Budget, costs, and sales across four closed shows, which makes the point that the show with three press write-ups lost money and the one nobody covered paid for the year.
• A waiting list that goes stale. The Interest Register uses staleness indicators set to 45 days, so collectors nobody has called back read as lapsed.
• A live webhook and an API integration. The Works section has a webhook firing on record changes, and a Condition Report URL field holding a link into an external condition-reporting system. The closest thing to a worked example of ORCA wired to another system.

What You Can and Can't Do

Demo accounts are read-only. You can browse everything: records, contacts, to-dos, staff chat, custom sections, the lot. Any attempt to create, edit, or delete something will be politely declined.

A banner at the top of every page reminds you that you're in a demo account.

Switch back to your real account any time via the account chooser.

Don't Have an Account Yet?

If you're exploring ORCA before signing up, you can log in with the demo credentials:

• Email: demo@orca-crm.com
• Password: explore-orca

This gets you straight into the account chooser, where you can explore all five demo accounts.