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I am looking to create a custom, client-facing site that will be designed to serve a single client, but the service that it provides will be open for all my clients. So each time a client signs up, I want to give them their own site, and I was thinking to do this by spinning up a new site within the same portal / environment, but to do this for multiple clients I would want to start from a template so that I don't have to customise the default template for each site. Is it possible to do this? When you create a new site through power pages, you get the choice to start from a template. What I want to know is if it is possible to create your own templates so that you can quickly set up new sites from a custom template.

Otherwise, am I going about this the right way, or should I do this via solutions? or should I be looking at a separate environment for each client?

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Expiscornovus 33,846 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @felix-oehl,

As far as I am aware it currently is not possible to upload/create your own custom site templates.

Maybe you could create some custom page templates. This might speed up the process of building new sites?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/portals/configure/page-templates

Or otherwise maybe Power Platform CLI with Visual Studio code could help you out to build sites / pages more quickly by taking the IDE approach:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-pages/configure/cli-tutorial

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No site templates, per se.

You can create Liquid web templates, but these are at the page/section level and are more about data than design.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/portals/liquid/store-content-web-templates

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ragavanrajan 7,044 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @felix-oehl

Completely agree with @pswider @Expiscornovus, Creating a site template is not yet available. You can only do page templates and web templates.

Also, provisioning each site when they signup is a good idea. Below are some of the questions for you

1. Did you consider the pricing for each portal?

2. Are you happy to accommodate internal and external users pricing charges?

3. Power Pages is not yet GA. If you take portal pricing as an example still it is high.

4. PAYG is an option but still, will it be worth for ROI?

Alternatively, you can have one PowerPages / Portal then when the customer signs up then you can customise the home page / modify power BI reports by applying RLS and create custom web roles to show different pages according to their needs. You can even do dynamic data and images depends on the web role. This approach is a huge cost saver.

I haven't tested the Power Platform CLI and PowerShell commands fully yet. But your ask maybe viable but not tested yet.

Please think about the above-mentioned scenario and see if it helps.

There are deep topics which have to be discussed but for now, the above questions will give you some clarity.

Hope it helps.
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