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Salesforce Foundations

Get ready for Agentforce with a 360-degree view of your customers, thanks to Salesforce Foundations. Easily activate Foundations in your existing CRM to add key features in Agentforce, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud, and Data Cloud — all for free.

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Bring your teams and data together with key features from Customer 360 apps.

Data Cloud

  • Unified profiles
  • Data services and storage credits
  • 10,000 annual segmentation credits
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Agentforce

  • Configurable Service Agent
  • Agent and Prompt Builders
  • 1,000 conversations to get started
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Marketing Cloud

  • Drag-and-drop email builder
  • Built-in email analytics
  • 2,000 monthly email sends
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Commerce Cloud

  • 1 D2C Digital Storefront *
  • Managed Checkout
  • Merchandising Tools
  • Pay Now secure payment links
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Salesforce Platform

  • Salesforce Platform Login license
  • Agentforce extended to infrequent users
  • 600 annual logins with 30,000 credits
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Service Cloud

  • Case Management
  • Knowledge
  • Macros
  • Service Console
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Sales Cloud

  • Deal Management
  • Quoting
  • Meetings
  • Sales Console
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* U.S. only.

Activate Foundations in your account.

  1. Log into your Salesforce account
  2. Go to “Set Up” and select “Salesforce Foundations”
  3. Click on "Add via Your Account"
  4. Add Salesforce Foundations products to your cart
  5. Check out and head back to “Set Up” to start using Foundations
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Get the most out of Foundations with free partner apps on AppExchange.

Access exclusive free trials from over 25 partner apps. These prebuilt extensions and integrations include document generation, contracts, collaboration, surveys, sales, telephony, and video conferencing.

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Salesforce Foundations FAQ

To add Foundations to your account, access Your Account through the Salesforce Foundations Set Up homepage. Simply log into your account, go to Set Up, and select Salesforce Foundations in the Set Up menu. Then click “Add via Your Account.”

Learn more about setting up your account and managing user access.

To access everything Foundations has to offer, you’ll need to check out with the following SKUs:

  • Salesforce Foundations (Required)
  • Salesforce Platform — Login and Dev Provisioning (Optional to access Platform Login License credits)

Note: The license quantity should match the number of user licenses your org currently has (including platform licenses, Restricted Use Licenses).

  • Data Cloud Provisioning (Required if your account does not already have Data Cloud)
  • Salesforce Foundations — Data Cloud Segmentation and Activation (Required)
  • Salesforce Foundations — Agentforce Service Agent (Optional)

Yes, Foundations is a $0 add-on that gives your org access to more functionality. Limits and terms do apply, including:

  • Data Cloud and Agentforce functionality consumes credits when used. Foundations grants enough credits to get started with simple use cases, including 10,000 Data Cloud Segmentation and Activation credits, and 200,000 Einstein Requests (approximately enough for 1,000 Service Agent conversations). Learn more about additional credits included with Free Data Cloud here.
  • Overage fees will apply. Usage can be tracked in Digital Wallet.
  • Commerce payment solutions, including Pay Now payment links and Storefront (U.S. Only), are subject to usage-based fees.
  • Marketing emails are limited to 2,000 email sends per org per month. Additional emails can be purchased through your account or your account executive.

Check here to see if your org edition is currently compatible with Foundations.

Availability varies by region. Reach out to your account executive for more details.

If you receive a checkout error or have questions, reach out to your account executive to learn more.

Reach out to your account executive for more information on adding Foundations to your account.

Once you add the required Foundations products, Data Cloud will be automatically provisioned. Salesforce admins will need to perform additional setup steps to activate the other feature sets.

Start with our Salesforce Foundations Quick Look on Trailhead or take the full Foundations Learning Path to learn more. You can also see Foundations demos and more at Dreamforce on Salesforce+.

When you’re ready to set up Foundations, follow our setup guide.

Once you’ve activated Foundations on your account, browse free extended trials of 25+ top apps on AppExchange. Contact these partners directly and reference Salesforce Foundations to get access to your free trial.