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what are the editions in salesforce

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Required Editions

Edition What’s Great About It
Essentials Designed for small businesses that want ...
Professional Designed for businesses requiring full-f ...
Enterprise Meets the needs of large and complex bus ...
Unlimited Maximizes your success and extends it ac ...
May 26 2022

There are four primary Salesforce Editions available: Essentials, Professional, Enterprise, and Unlimited.Mar 5, 2021

Full Answer

What are different Salesforce editions?

  • Contact Manager Edition.
  • Group Edition.
  • Professional Edition.
  • Enterprise Edition.
  • Performance Edition.

What is unlimited edition in Salesforce?

Types of Salesforce Editions

  1. Essential Edition. Essential Edition is the basic edition designed for small businesses who want to run their business on the CRM system quickly.
  2. Professional Edition. The professional edition is the advanced edition that is mainly designed for businesses that require more CRM functionalities, security, and customization.
  3. Enterprise Edition. ...

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How to check your Salesforce version?

Using Windows Command Prompt or Mac OS’ terminal and run nslookup

  • Press and hold ‘Windows’ key on keyboard and press ‘R’ letter key
  • Windows Run Dialog will open. Type ‘cmd’ and hit ‘Enter’
  • Type ‘nslookup’ followed by ‘yourdomain.my.salesforce.com’ and hit ‘Enter’
  • You will see your instance name below in the line which starts with ‘Name:xy1’ where ‘xy1’ will be your instance.

What is the latest Salesforce API version?

  • This retirement affects all API-enabled org editions and applies to both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience.
  • This retirement affects legacy API calls made via the AJAX Toolkit.
  • This retirement affects legacy API calls made via the SForceOfficeToolkit COM interface.
  • This retirement affects the Force.com Toolkit for PHP.

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How to contact Salesforce?

Salesforce has all kinds of add-ons, apps, and additional products to help your company stay ahead in your industry. Call us at 1-800-667-6389 to discuss exactly what kind of products you’re looking to add and how we can help.

Does Salesforce integrate with MuleSoft?

In many cases, Salesforce products integrate directly with many outside applications and systems to help you connect your data. For those that don’t have built- in integration, like on-premises data sources, you can purchase licenses of MuleSoft, work with our integration partners, or use apps on AppExchange.

Does Salesforce have a monthly or multiyear subscription?

Most Salesforce products use annual contracts, but Salesforce subscription terms vary, like Salesforce Essentials which offers monthly or even multiyear payment options. Chat with a sales representative to discuss payment and billing options for your products.

What is edition in salesforce?

The edition is the type of salesforce instance, which determines what functionalities are available.

How many Salesforce Cloud Editions are there?

There are five types of Salesforce Cloud Editions. These Editions are given below:

What is professional edition?

The professional edition is the advanced edition that is mainly designed for businesses that require more CRM functionalities, security, and customization. It provides easy to use customization tools. It also includes the integrations and administration tools to allow small or midsize application deployment. It means this is the first edition that allows the companies to perform any development work on it. It allows us to create the two user profiles per Org, two user roles per org, and permission sets. But these are limited options for the mid-sized organization.

What is the Essential Edition?

Essential Edition is the basic edition designed for small businesses who want to run their business on the CRM system quickly. It provides the proper setup assistant to get started with the system to the users. It helps the user with the assistant of using the UI and various administration tools to customize the business applications. The pricing for the essential edition is $25 user/month.

How to upgrade Salesforce edition?

To upgrade the edition, one needs to contact the salesforce account executive or Salesforce consulting company. We need to pay the difference in the amount between the current edition and the edition we are upgrading.

Why do companies need to know each edition?

As every edition provides different functionality and license; hence the companies must know each edition with their functionalities to better use the platform. The companies need to opt for the edition that best suits their businesses to get maximum profit.

What is developer edition?

The developer edition allows the businesses to access to the Lightning Platform and APIs. It helps the developers to extend Salesforce, integrate with other applications, and develop new tools and applications.

How to contact Salesforce?

Salesforce has all kinds of add-ons, apps, and additional products to help your company stay ahead in your industry. Call us at 1-800-667-6389 to discuss exactly what kind of products you’re looking to add and how we can help.

Does Salesforce integrate with MuleSoft?

In many cases, Salesforce products integrate directly with many outside applications and systems to help you connect your data. For those that don’t have built- in integration, like on-premises data sources, you can purchase licenses of MuleSoft, work with our integration partners, or use apps on AppExchange.

Does Salesforce have a monthly or multiyear subscription?

Most Salesforce products use annual contracts, but Salesforce subscription terms vary, like Salesforce Essentials which offers monthly or even multiyear payment options. Chat with a sales representative to discuss payment and billing options for your products.

How to contact Salesforce?

Salesforce has all kinds of add-ons, apps, and additional products to help your company stay ahead in your industry. Call us at 1-800-667-6389 to discuss exactly what kind of products you’re looking to add and how we can help.

Does Salesforce integrate with MuleSoft?

In many cases, Salesforce products integrate directly with many outside applications and systems to help you connect your data. For those that don’t have built- in integration, like on-premises data sources, you can purchase licenses of MuleSoft, work with our integration partners, or use apps on AppExchange.

Does Salesforce have a monthly or multiyear subscription?

Most Salesforce products use annual contracts, but Salesforce subscription terms vary, like Salesforce Essentials which offers monthly or even multiyear payment options. Chat with a sales representative to discuss payment and billing options for your products.

How to find the current Salesforce edition?

Click on it and in the opened section scroll to the Company edition field. Here you will be able to see the current Salesforce edition.

What is Enterprise Edition?

Enterprise Edition: Enterprise Edition (EE) is designed for large, complex businesses and provides access to virtually all platform functionality for $125/user/month. EE is the edition that provides the most benefit for customers and the one that saleforce.com tries to sell the most. Most developers and administrators will want to work with EE as it allows them to provide the most functionality for end-users. EE includes all PE features plus:

How much is Professional Edition?

Professional Edition: Professional Edition (PE) is priced at $65/user/month and is designed for small- to mid- sized businesses that need more CRM functionality, security and personalization. PE is the first edition on the edition ladder where you can really start doings some development work. However some features are still missing and this will drive you crazy.

Where is the gear icon in Salesforce?

Log in to your Salesforce account and hover over the gear icon on the top-right corner of the page near your account photo.

What is performance edition?

The performance edition is the highest edition that Salesforce offers. It includes all functionality, extra services and the highest limits. Services include 24 hours phone support, ability to log cases for Salesforce to perform certain administration tasks for your organization and access to the complete online training catalog. Performance edition also comes with one full sandbox and one partial sandbox which is a significant extra cost with the other editions.

What is Enterprise Edition?

Enterprise edition is the edition used by most large customers. It includes all Salesforce functionality, key differences from the professional edition include ability to use workflows, approval processes and integration possibilities using the web services api.

What is the Professional Edition?

Professional Edition removes the 5 users limit and includes all of the Group edition features. It extends the CRM functionality of the group edition with campaigns, forecasting, products, quotes and mass email. Dashboards and reports are customizable . Mass email functionality is available for leads and customers.

How many users can you have on Group Edition?

Group edition still has a five user limit, and includes all of the contact manager edition features, but adds leads, opportunity management through to using case management for support. It is designed for the very small business that is looking to enable a sales process from capturing leads from the web, lead routing and assignment to managing accounts and opportunities. It also offers dashboards and email templates and tracking. Group edition has higher limits that contact manager for adding custom fields (100) and adding custom objects (50) to store custom data.

What is contact manager in Salesforce?

Contact Manager is the entry level Salesforce edition for a small business. It offers basic account, contact and activity tracking for up to 5 users. In addition it includes Chatter features and features to manage documents using attachments or the content library. It also allows synchronization to Outlook. Information is also available on the road using the Salesforce 1 app. This edition is most suitable if the main objective is to use it as a contact manager as the edition name suggests, it does not include any other CRM functionality such as Opportunity tracking. It does however include the ability to customize the application with adding custom fields to the Account and Contact objects to track company specific data.

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