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is salesforce maps free

by Prof. Kathryn Greenholt Published 2 years ago Updated 2 years ago
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Salesforce Maps Pricing Starting From: Not provided by vendor No free trial Yes, has free version

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What is Salesforce maps?

Salesforce Maps is a location-based intelligence tool, accessible on mobile devices and built for global enterprise-level teams, designed to help optimize sales processes and optimize territory management. The platform allows you to go from territory planning and design to execution by your reps in the field and visualization of the results.

How do I install Salesforce maps on a third party website?

Click the installation URL that you received in an email message after you submitted the Salesforce Maps order form email. Then log in to Salesforce. Select Install for Admins Only. Click Install. Select Yes, grant access to these third party websites and click Continue.

How much does Salesforce maps add-on tool cost?

The Salesforce Maps add-on tool itself has two levels of features and pricing for your team depending on your business and sales needs. There is the Basic version and the Advanced version. The Basic version of Salesforce Maps will cost you $75 per month per user, billed annually.

What are the pros and cons of Salesforce maps?

As with any type of software, Salesforce Maps does have pros and cons to its platform. Here are a few of both: You can visualize many different aspects of your sales data, including customers and sales revenue, on a map-based interface.

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Salesforce Maps Territory Planning

Territory Planning involves defining geographic areas so that specific reps/agents know who they are responsible for working with, whether that’s accounts or individuals if they fall into the mapped area assigned to them. The most common ways territories apply are:

Salesforce Maps Features

In addition to Territory Planning, Salesforce Maps brings together location data visualization, for effective live location tracking and route optimization.

Salesforce Maps Pricing

Salesforce Maps pricing starts at $75 per user/month. The standard edition comes with route optimization & scheduling, Salesforce data visualization, Lead auto-assignment, mobile app access.

Summary

When you pause to think about it, location data is core to so much of what happens within your CRM – whether that’s to drive lead assignment routing, or to optimize field service delivery – utilizing geography brings many operational advantages.

How much does Salesforce Maps cost?

It is more expensive compared to alternatives — at a minimum of $75 per month, Salesforce Maps is more expensive than other options of sales mapping solutions. How To Add Mapping To Your Salesforce CRM. Adding a mapping tool to your Salesforce CRM is not impossibly complicated, depending on the specific tool.

How long does it take to install Salesforce Maps?

Keep in mind that after you install Salesforce Maps, the installed package appears as a trial for up to 72 hours.

When did MapAnything become Salesforce?

Well, in early 2019, MapAnything was acquired by Salesforce and, in late August 2019, became Salesforce Maps. This brought together the geo-spatial capabilities of MapAnything with a robust sales CRM that many people associate with Salesforce.

Does Salesforce Maps work?

Salesforce Maps may work perfectly for one type of business or sales team’s needs and not be the right fit for another. As with any type of software, Salesforce Maps does have pros and cons to its platform. Here are a few of both: Pros of Salesforce Maps.

Can you use Salesforce Maps with Salesforce CRM?

To effectively use Salesforce Maps you would need to have the Salesforce CRM, Salesforce Sales Cloud, to begin with. And Salesforce Maps is an available add-on only for the Professional Sales Cloud version and above, it is not available for the Essentials version of Sales Cloud.

Can you add a mapping tool to Salesforce?

Adding a mapping tool to your Salesforce CRM is not impossibly complicated, depending on the specific tool. Some are easier than others to integrate. When it comes to Salesforce Maps, Salesforce does provide some instructions to try and help with the installation and configuration.

What is Salesforce Maps?

Salesforce Maps is an app for Salesforce that offers location-based visualization of critical customer data effortlessly, that is accessible from mobile devices or desktops. Salesforce maps allow you to visualize your businesses’ location data and gain spatial insights from them.

What are the main features of SalesForce maps?

Sales managers can use salesforce Maps to maintain and manage geographical sales territories and balance them using Salesforce CRM data. The categories will depend on the type (e.g., customer locations, new or present customers, customer income and profit, product specifications, account type, etc.) taken to separate them.

Maptive as an alternative solution for Salesforce maps

Maptive is mapping software that provides almost all features of Salesforce Maps. One of the key features of Maptive is that it has automated its territory optimization with the help of WeMapSales algorithms. WeMapSales are experts in the field of territory optimization and location intelligence technologies.

Salesforce Maps Basics

Learn how to visualize and optimize your location data with Salesforce Maps.

Salesforce Maps Configuration

Learn best practices and recommendations for configuring Salesforce Maps.

Create a Salesforce Maps Marker Layer

Create a marker layer to geographically visualize your Salesforce Data.

Salesforce Maps User Experience

Learn how to navigate the Maps user interface on desktop and mobile environments.

Salesforce Maps and ArcGIS Online

Use ArcGIS Online data with Salesforce data to make analytics-driven decisions.

What is the Salesforce Maps Connector for ArcGIS?

The Salesforce Maps Connector for ArcGIS allows you to view existing ArcGIS data in Salesforce Maps. Seeing ArcGIS and Salesforce data on the same map saves time and allows you to turn your data into actionable intelligence.

The Salesforce Maps Connector for ArcGIS Interface

The Connector adds an additional option to the layer creation interface, ArcGIS Layer. Under the layers tab, hover over the New button and select ArcGIS Layer.

The ArcGIS Layer Window

The setup window provides Details, Click2Create, and Advanced settings.

The Info Window

After plotting the layer on map click the data points to see Info window. Info window shows details from the ArcGIS web map.

The Sidebar

The Sidebar: In the layer legend, checkboxes to the left of each feature allows you to toggle them on and off.

Terminology

If you have used ArcGIS or other ESRI software before, you are probably familiar with the terminology. However, it's helpful to list it here for reference.

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