Originally Posted by robwod

Right on the WPMUDev site they have a blog dedicated to just that:
https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/web...ess-multisite/

it might be a little outdated, but I think if you install WP Multisite on your own, you'll see the benefits of it. You place the plugins and themes you allow in the main domain's install (your network hub site). Then you choose to activate whatever you want customers to choose from.

One database, each site gets its own tables in the database (users, options, etc). There are numerous plugins out there for everything from membership management to network wide branding/advertisements.

Here's the Wordpress Codex article:
https://wordpress.org/support/article/create-a-network/

Beyond that, you just need to do a little research to get the themes and plugins you think you'll need.

HTH.