With the continuing advances in Internet technology nowadays, more and more websites come to existence and the need for web hosting services has risen. Web hosts often face the ultimately stressful task of managing a cornucopia of websites. Helm 4, a web hosting control panel for Microsoft Windows, eases the task of web hosts, making the management and maintenance of websites less complex. This control panel solution guarantees very efficient service for less operational costs, therefore making both web hosts and their customers benefit from it. A plan template is a feature of Helm 4 which lets web hosts manage websites without any difficulties. It is proven to be user-friendly and even people with limited web hosting knowledge can operate it with little effort.

The demo below will teach you how to create plan templates in Helm:

1. Log in to your Helm control panel as a reseller.

2. Click the “My Plan Templates” icon.

3. Click “Add” to create a new plan template.

4. Click on the “Template Name” field and enter the name of your new plan template.

5. Below the “Template Name” field, click the drop down box to choose a package which you will base your template on.

6. Click the package that you want to use.

7. Then, click “Next.”

8. To use resources that are different from the selected package, uncheck the “inherit resources from parent” box.

9. In the “Selected Resources” scroll box, you can remove resources that you do not want to use in the new plan template.

10. Click on a scroll arrow on the scroll box.

11. Scroll through the list to find the resources you want to remove.

12. Next, click on a resource that you want to remove.

13. Click the left arrow button beside the scroll box. This will transfer the resource to the “Available Resources” scroll box.

14. Click the “Save” button.

15. Then, click the “Back” button.

16. The Plan Templates list will be displayed on the screen and the newly created plan template can be seen at the end of the list. To return to the homepage, click “Home” on the menu bar.

17. You now know how to create a plan template using Helm. If you wish to create another plan template, just repeat the procedure.

18. Thank you for reading this tutorial. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us by leaving a comment below.