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# Create an Experience Cloud Site

Create an Experience Cloud site using a wizard that helps you choose a template that meets your business needs.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions</td></tr></tbody></table>

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d57921e70 ">To create an Experience Cloud site:</td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d57921e70 ">Create and Set Up Experiences AND View Setup and Configuration</td>

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d57921e70 ">To customize or publish an Experience Cloud site:</td>

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                <li>Create and Set Up Experiences AND View Setup and Configuration AND be a member
                  of the site<p>OR</p>
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                <li>View Setup and Configuration AND be a member of the site AND have appropriate
                  <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.networks_access_control_overview.htm&amp;language=en_US" target="_blank">role-based site access</a>
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To see the number of sites you can create for your org, from Setup, enter Digital Experiences in the Quick Find box, and select **Sites**. The maximum number of sites appears at the top of the page.

1. To create a site, from Setup, enter Digital Experiences in the Quick Find box, select **All Sites**, and then click **New**.
    
    The creation wizard opens with several templates for you to choose from.
2. To see more information about a template, select it.
    
    - Customer Account Portal—A private and secure place for customers to access and update their account information. Improve customer relationships and decrease service costs by letting customers work in the portal. Customers can see and pay invoices, update their account information, and search your knowledge base for answers to their most frequent questions.
    - Partner Central—A flexible, responsive template designed for channel sales workflows. Recruit, build, and grow your partner network to drive channel sales and marketing together in a branded online space. Easily configure lead distribution, deal registration, and marketing campaigns. Share training materials and sales collateral in a central space, and use reports to track your pipeline.
    - Customer Service—A powerful, responsive self-service template with multiple prebuilt theme options. The Customer Service template lets users post questions to the community, search for and view articles, collaborate, and contact support agents by creating cases. Supports Knowledge, Chatter Questions, and cases.
    - Help Center—A public-access, self-service community that exposes the articles that you make available from your knowledge base. You reduce the load on your customer support team, and your users get the satisfaction of finding their own solutions.
    - Build Your Own (Aura)—Provides the basic pages that every Experience Builder site needs: Home, Create Record, Error, Record Detail, Record List, Related Record List, Search, Check Password, Forgot Password, Login, Login Error, and Register. Add more pages and components as needed for the experience you’re building. To refine the look of your site, customize your branding and themes.
    - Build Your Own (LWR)—Powered by the Lightning Web Runtime (LWR) framework, this customizable template delivers unparalleled page performance and improves developer productivity. Quickly build pixel-perfect pages and develop Lightning web components and themes that match your unique brand.
        
        Suitable for developers, consulting partners, and ISVs who are familiar with developing custom Lightning web components, and working with Salesforce DX, User Interface API, and Apex. See the [LWR Sites for Experience Cloud](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.exp_cloud_lwr.meta/exp_cloud_lwr/intro.htm) guide.
    - Microsites (LWR)—Use the power of LWR to create beautiful, high-performance sites perfect for event pages, landing pages, or other special purpose websites. Microsites gives you all the tools to quickly spin up a website and then archive it when it’s no longer needed.
        
        Suitable for developers, consulting partners, and ISVs who are familiar with developing custom Lightning web components, and working with Salesforce DX, User Interface API, and Apex. See the [LWR Sites for Experience Cloud](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.exp_cloud_lwr.meta/exp_cloud_lwr/intro.htm) guide.
    - Aloha—A configurable App Launcher template that lets users quickly find applications and access them using single sign-on authentication, including social logins.
    - Salesforce Tabs + Visualforce—Standard Salesforce structure and tabs that you can customize using Visualforce. Requires developer experience and advanced setup skills. Offers full platform access with a flexible configuration and supports most standard objects, custom objects, and the Salesforce mobile app.
        
        Salesforce Tabs + Visualforce isn’t a Lightning-based template and therefore doesn’t work with Experience Builder.
3. Select the template that you want to use.
4. Read the template description and key features, and click **Get Started**.
5. Enter a name.
6. For URL, enter the name of your site.
    
    This name is appended to the domain that you created when you [enabled digital experiences](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.networks_enable.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Enabling digital experiences is the first step to creating an Experience Cloud site, whether you’re building a community, portal, help center, or website. You also need to enable digital experiences when setting up Commerce Cloud, Financial Services Cloud, Health Cloud, and Work.com.") for this org. For example, if your domain name is UniversalTelco.my.site.com and you’re creating a customer community, you can enter customers to create the unique URL UniversalTelco.my.site.com/customers.
    
    ![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-communities-264-0-0-production-enus/bf7df212-91a1-4fa3-a007-4d6f3e3b470b/images/icon_note.png)
    
    Note You can create one site that doesn’t have a custom URL.
    
    You can change your site name and URL after the site is activated, but users aren’t redirected to the new URL. So be sure to inform your members before changing the name or URL.
7. Click **Create**.
    
    The site is created in Preview status. Now you’re ready to build and customize or manage and moderate your site.

When you create a site, Salesforce supplies default pages for login, self-registration, change password, forgot password, and your home page. These pages are based on which template you use to create your site. You can customize these default pages at any time in the Login & Registration page of the Administration workspace.

![Important](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-communities-264-0-0-production-enus/bf7df212-91a1-4fa3-a007-4d6f3e3b470b/images/icon_important.png)

Important After you create a site, your profile is added to the list of profiles that have access to it. Then all users with this profile can log in to the site after it’s active. If you don’t want all users with your profile to have access to the site, remove the profile, and give yourself access through a different profile or permission set. Then create a profile specifically for your site users.

When you create an Experience Cloud site, you have the ability to send out emails on behalf of the site to users. To prevent malicious emails, Experience Cloud sites only send emails from verified addresses and verified email domains. If the email address you are using for your Experience Cloud site hasn't been verified, we send a verification link to the email address entered in the **Email Sender** field of the Admin tile in your Experience Cloud site's Workspaces. Until the address is verified, `.invalid` is appended to the email sender address. Click the verification link to ensure emails are sent from your Experience Cloud site.

![Important](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-communities-264-0-0-production-enus/bf7df212-91a1-4fa3-a007-4d6f3e3b470b/images/icon_important.png)

Important System-generated emails from an unverified email-sending domain aren’t delivered, even if the From email address is verified. See [Requirements to Send Email from Salesforce](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.security_email_verification_requirements.htm&type=5&language=en_US).

- **[How Many Experience Cloud Sites Can My Org Have?](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.faq_communities_how_do_i_find_number_available.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    You can have up to 100 Experience Cloud sites in your Salesforce org. Active, inactive, and preview sites, including Visualforce sites, count against this limit.

#### See Also

- [Experience Cloud](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.networks_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Salesforce Experience Cloud lets you create branded digital experiences to share information and collaborate with people who are key to your business processes, such as customers, partners, or employees. Whether you call it a portal, help forum, support community, or something else, an Experience Cloud site is a great place to connect with the important folks in your life.")
- [How Many Experience Cloud Sites Can My Org Have?](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.faq_communities_how_do_i_find_number_available.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "You can have up to 100 Experience Cloud sites in your Salesforce org. Active, inactive, and preview sites, including Visualforce sites, count against this limit.")
- [Edit Pages and Components in Experience Builder](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.community_builder_edit_pages.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Each page contains a collection of components that are organized around a task or function, whether it’s opening a case or searching for an article. The pages in each Experience Builder template are ready for you to use with little configuration. Add new components to your site’s pages, edit the properties of existing components, or delete components that you don’t require.")