Lightning Bolt Solutions
Lightning Bolt Solutions is a Setup area for managing pre-built industry and use-case-specific solution templates for Experience Cloud sites.
Definition
Lightning Bolt Solutions is a Setup area for managing pre-built industry and use-case-specific solution templates for Experience Cloud sites. Each Bolt solution includes pages, components, themes, and flows that can be installed and customized to rapidly launch branded digital experiences like partner portals or customer communities.
In plain English
“Here's a simple way to think about it: Lightning Bolt Solutions are pre-fab templates for common Experience Cloud builds - partner portals, customer help centers, public communities. Each Bolt is pages, components, themes, and flows installable as a unit.”
Worked example
The admin at NexGen Logistics installs a Lightning Bolt Solution for a supply chain partner portal. The template includes pre-built pages for order tracking, inventory visibility, and shipment scheduling. Instead of building the portal from scratch, the admin customizes the branding, connects it to their data, and launches the partner portal in two weeks instead of three months.
Why Lightning Bolt Solutions are pre-fab templates for common Experience Cloud builds
Building an Experience Cloud site from scratch - a partner portal, a customer help center, a public community - takes weeks even for an experienced team. Lightning Bolt Solutions are the pre-fab templates that compress that timeline. Each Bolt is a packaged combination of pages, components, themes, and supporting flows for a specific use case (Customer Support, Partner Portal, Industry Hub), installable into Experience Cloud and customizable from there.
The reason they're worth using even when you'd prefer something tailored is that the question of what a partner portal should look like has a known answer in 80% of orgs. Bolt templates encode that answer so you don't have to rebuild it. Start with the closest template to your need, customize from there, and reserve the build-from-scratch path for the rare cases where your portal is genuinely unprecedented.
How organizations use Lightning Bolt Solutions
Used the Partner Portal Bolt as the foundation for distributor portal; customized 30% of pages, kept 70% as-is, launched in 6 weeks.
Customer help center Bolt accelerated the project from a 6-month to 6-week timeline.
Industry Hub Bolt fit the partnership model; the template's structure matched the team's needs without significant customization.
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