What are the different platforms in Salesforce?
With that, here are the tools you can use to build apps on Lightning Platform:
- Salesforce Environments. A secure and isolated development environment for developers and admins to test ideas, accelerate app development, and customize the platform. ...
- Heroku. It lets you extend Salesforce by building engaging experiences through custom apps. ...
- mySalesforce. ...
- myEinstein. ...
- Salesforce App Cloud. ...
What are the different types of Salesforce licenses?
- User Licences.
- Feature Licences.
- Permission Set Licences.
Can Salesforce users share a license?
You'll also quickly run into an accessibility issue as each Salesforce license can only be registered to a limited number of devices (I believe it's 5) so if your users are logging in from multiple IP addresses and multiple devices they'll quickly get tired of registering and re-registering devices. Each Salesforce user has an "active" property.
What is permission set license in Salesforce?
The automated provisioning process occurs when:
- You make an initial purchase to set up a Salesforce org.
- You purchase an upgrade or add-on.
- A Salesforce patch release includes changes to a license definition.
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What are Platform licenses Salesforce?
Platform licenses include Accounts, Contacts and Reports as well as the automation tools that you know and love (e.g., Process Builder, Flow and Apex). They also include standard individual and mass emailing functionality. For a more complete breakdown you can also see this Salesforce Help article.
Does Salesforce Platform license limitations?
The limitation is covered in such a way that there is no permission to access the standard functionality is under the Customer Relationship Management System but they are responsible for allowing access to the platform functionality such as custom tabs, reports, documents, and contacts.
Is Salesforce Platform license free?
This is the same Platform that Enterprise and Unlimited users access. But Platform licenses are a lot less expensive. For example, the cost of a Salesforce Sales Cloud Enterprise user license is $1,800/year per license, while the license cost of a Lightning Platform Starter is $300/year per license.
What are the different types of Salesforce licenses?
Salesforce offers these license types.Standard User Licenses.Chatter User Licenses.Experience Cloud User Licenses.Service Cloud Portal User Licenses.Sites and Site.com User Licenses.Authenticated Website User Licenses.
What is a platform license?
Platform License means any License for any technology platform, manufacturing or formulation technology, delivery device or other similar technology that is generally applicable to the Product and to other products.
What is lightning platform plus license?
Lightning Platform Starter and Lightning Platform Plus both contain a Salesforce Platform license and a Company Communities Permission Set License. This table shows which features are available to users granted a Salesforce Platform license and assigned the Company Communities Permission Set License.
What is a Salesforce standard platform user?
A Standard User profile allows you to create and edit most of the key records, run Salesforce reports, and view the setup of your Salesforce org. Although this profile allows you to view campaigns, it does not allow you to manage them. Also, it allows you to create solutions, but not view them.
How many Salesforce licenses do I have?
Company Community To view a list of the active user licenses in your Salesforce, simply click Your Name > Setup > Company Profile > Company Information > User Licenses.
How much is a full Salesforce license?
DealsNamePriceSales Essentials Edition$25.00Per MonthProfessional Edition$75/user/month*Enterprise Edition$150/user/month*Unlimited Edition$300/user/month*Apr 26, 2022
Can Salesforce platform users see opportunities?
Salesforce Platform Access to custom apps but not to standard CRM functionality, such as Leads, Opportunities, Forecasts, Cases, and Solutions. Users will be able to see accounts and contacts and also use report and dashboard functionality.
Salesforce Licenses – Recap
As a recap, here are the links to all the main Enterprise licenses types, including a rather handy PDF specification/comparison sheet – just click “download the full comparison sheet” on the relevant page:
What are Platform Licenses?
Platform Starter and Platform Plus licenses offer the standard Salesforce functionality you’ve come to know and love. However, the range of standard objects and the number of custom objects are severely curtailed – e.g., barely anything sales or service-related.
Important Tips!
Contract restrictions – recreating standard objects. Salesforce is extremely clear about this. If you copy certain standard features using custom techniques, then you must pay for those standard features. The main example is Opportunities and recreating the functionality contained therein to save on cost.
Changing Salesforce Licenses
Sometimes you’ll see references to “Salesforce licenses”, which are Sales Cloud, Service Cloud or a combination thereof and sometimes to “Salesforce Platform licenses” which are the Platform Starter and Platform Plus licenses. In practical terms there’s no difference – both types have the same standard interface.
Best Practice
Keep your profiles very “bare bones” if you can, with only a few (or zero) objects. Then add in the permissions you require via permission sets (or permission set groups of course) – this enables users with different licenses to share the same permission sets.
Summary
There’s a lot of information to take in about Salesforce licenses and a lot of options. The time spent to work out your use case could have a very high ROI and unlock Salesforce for more areas of your business.
Where does Salesforce CRM originate?
It is common that Salesforce CRM implementation and usage originates in an organization’s sales department, where it creates a high degree of value for the firm. Recognizing the value of the platform, usage then expands into other areas of the company.
Can you leverage Salesforce Platform Licenses?
For those of you using Salesforce Enterprise, Unlimited, Performance, or Developer Editions of the respective products you’ve purchased, you may have the ability to leverage Salesforce Platform Licenses for some of your users to substantially reduce your total Salesforce licensing costs.
