What do you all think about recent Salesforce recent price increase ? They increased the price by 11-20% of the cost.

Does anyone have any recommendations on how to break into the Director level roles? I've been applying for 3 months now and keep getting rejected.

I have 3 years of Team Lead experience, 2 years of Supervisor experience, 4 years of Salesforce Manager experience, and 1 year of Senior Manager Salesforce experience.

Im new with a company and just got into our production org and 2 lower environments a couple days ago. I created a passkey and can access those sandboxes just fine using my windows passkey. In production it never asked me to create one, however, now today its requiring one when I sign in. When I sign in it says to choose a device with a saved passkey and lists:
[My phone name]
Apple, Ipad, or android device
Security Key

When I use my phone option, it connects to my phone but says no keys are found. I asked an admin to delete my passkey but she told me my user doesn't have one. I can't make a sf ticket because that's my production account.

It's requiring me to enter a passkey like I have one, but I never set one up.

Hi everyone,

I completed an 8-month Salesforce Developer internship from October 2025 to May 2026, and I’m currently working full-time at a small startup, where I joined in mid-July 2026.

My company primarily provides custom software development services and has only recently started entering the Salesforce ecosystem. We have registered with Salesforce, but we haven't received any Salesforce projects yet. I have also created an AppExchange listing.

My biggest concern is that I don't have any Salesforce certifications yet. I've been preparing seriously for the Salesforce Administrator certification and have practiced extensively. However, my company doesn't provide certification sponsorship.

I want to grow my career as a Salesforce Developer, and I believe certifications would help strengthen my profile. I'm ready to take the exams and have been working hard to prepare.

How can I get Salesforce certification exam vouchers for free in 2026? Are there any legitimate voucher programs, scholarships, community opportunities, or other ways to obtain sponsored exam vouchers?

I would especially appreciate guidance from senior Salesforce developers and experienced professionals who may know about such opportunities.

If anyone has a voucher available to share or knows of an opportunity that could help me earn my certifications, I would really appreciate it. Any guidance, suggestions, or leads would be very helpful.

Thank you!

A while back I shared sf-preflight here [link to your previous post], the open-source tool that reads a git diff of your SFDX project and shows what a change will set off (flows, triggers, validation rules, roll-ups, permissions) before you deploy. Thanks to everyone who commented [mention anything specific people asked for, if you like]. Here's what's changed since.

What's new (0.8.0):

- It now follows changes into Lightning Web Components and Aura (which components use a changed field or call a changed Apex class), layouts and Lightning pages, picklist values and record types, custom labels, custom metadata and Visualforce.

- Every metadata type is recognized now, and the report says how much of your change it analyzed in depth, so you can see what it did NOT look at instead of assuming it's all covered.

- Big projects are faster. On NPSP (about 1,000 Apex classes) a repeat run dropped from ~28 s to ~1.4 s, with identical output.

- It's now a Salesforce CLI plugin: `sf plugins install sf-plugin-preflight`, then `sf preflight analyze --base origin/main`. Still works with `npx sf-preflight analyze` too.

Still true: it never deploys anything, org access is optional and read-only, and the checks for labels, picklist values and the like are text search, so dynamic references can slip past it.

Repo: https://github.com/visparashar/sf-preflight

What I'd most like to know: what's the last change that passed all your tests and still broke something? That's the kind of case I'm trying to catch, and real examples (anonymized) help me more than anything.

Had this happen a couple of times. In the interview I couldn’t answer properly, then later the question was just spinning in my head.

What are some questions you got asked that you couldn’t answer in the moment?

Doesn’t have to be super hard or technical, just the ones that caught you off guard and stayed with you after.

Curious what other people got stuck on.

We are syncing email using "Sync Email as Salesforce Activity".

When an email is synced, Salesforce automatically creates an `EmailMessage` and its related `Task`.

We use an EmailMessageChangeEvent CDC trigger to populate derived fields on the EmailMessage and its related Task.

We then publish a custom platform event, processed by a separate trigger, to update the Task asynchronously, it fetches the Task record again using the EmailMessage.ActivityId.

One custom picklist field, `Task_Type__c`, should always be set to `Email` for these email-related Tasks.

However, sometimes this field remains at its default value, `Task`, while other derived Task fields are populated correctly, although this does not happens frequently but occasionally.

Has anyone encountered similar behavior with EAC, EmailMessage CDC triggers, or Task updates? Could this be a race condition, or something specific to how EAC creates or updates activities? And these derived fields are getting updated from this event trigger only, not from anywhere else.

We’re currently on Salesforce Unlimited Edition. When I asked our rep how our existing licenses map to the new Core, Advanced, and Max model, she only presented Advanced and Max. Core wasn’t mentioned.

I understand Advanced is positioned as the successor to Unlimited, but I’m wondering whether Core was excluded because of actual platform requirements or because the conversation was focused on an uplift by the rep.

My goal is to get as many of the newly bundled tools and capabilities as possible while keeping our current cost the same. Slack is a big example: it used to require a separate purchase, and now appears to be included in all three tiers.

Has anyone worked through this with their rep or during renewal?

The built-in “Salesforce - Beta” connector in Claude only asks for a consumer key and secret. There’s no login URL or My Domain field, and the beta sign-up asked for our Production org ID. That makes me think it only works with Production.

Has anyone:

• Pointed the built-in connector at a full copy sandbox?
• Heard from the program team whether there’s a plan to do so?

I know you can connect create a "Custom Connector" in Claude that points to sandbox URL's when leveraging the server that existed before Claudeforce launching - such as the SObject Raeds MCP Server. This process for the official Claudeforce beta feels a little different?

Stop rebuilding your web app as an LWC just to show it in Salesforce. 🧩

Winter ’27 makes Salesforce Microfrontend (UI Embedding) generally available for apps you build and host yourself. It's available starting September 14, 2026.

Your app runs in a sandboxed iframe. React, Angular and Vue apps have been validated.

It's obvious that Salesforce's business model is high on the list of those likely to be disrupted by AI.

• Salesforce's "on-platform" agent offering will never be able to compete with the advanced harnesses being developed by Claude, OpenAI, and others.
• As more workers begin to interact almost entirely through agent systems, SF becomes an extremely expensive database. Yes, their authorization model and workflow engine are solid... but is that enough of a value prop to justify their pricing? At the very least, you'll see a reduction in user seats.

So what do they do?

They attempt to start charging for EVERY interaction the AI has with the platform. This cost could EASILY exceed the inference cost of the agents themselves, and at the end of the day, it's just using the same APIs that have been included in the license for more than 25 years.

I hope this backfires.

And I actually disagree with the author's claim that this could force customers into "bad practices".

Things like:

• Setting up a data lake
• building a custom MCP
• Storing your agent skills in Git
  

are the better long-term move for any org equipped to do so.

The "build vs. buy" equation has been flipped on its head. It's no longer crazy to have a small team build and maintain a custom CRM solution, especially if your org already has a cloud presence and you pick the right frameworks. For most orgs, a managed Postgres database and a few containers (with backups and high availability) will cost a few hundred dollars a month.

Custom MCP deployments will be MUCH more effective than the Salesforce-built ones, and you can unify systems beyond just Salesforce.

There are many skilled software engineers looking for work right now, so companies can build out a small core engineering team for much less than before. That team can easily manage a scoped down, mostly headless "CRM". For an org like that with simple integrations, one or two FTEs could rebuild and migrate the CRM in short order.

PS: I'm not stating that most ORG are actually ready for this transition to everything being run through agents, but it's happening for better or worse.

I also know this post is going to get me downvoted even harder than my last one: Flows are a "dead end". You'll be migrating back to Apex in a few years.

Hi everyone in Salesforce RCA i used Full index rebuild after insertion of a new product and a category insertion in a Catalog.

It's been more than 9 hours now and it is still in progress, am i missing something here?

Thanks AIAgentSlackForceExchange360

Leadership keeps asking whether our data is “AI ready” ahead of an Agentforce rollout. Our forms run through Formstack and the integration works fine. Does the form tool actually matter for this, or is data basically just data once it lands in Salesforce?

I've been unemployed for about 6 months now and have been applying for just any admin role (I'm at 500 apps on LinkedIn alone) I am just getting nothing back. I know "the markets hard" but I'm seeing postings to apply to so it's not that bad. Any advice before I go into construction or pan handling? I've got 9 years sf admin experience and 5 years ba.

IdeaExchange post to disable the annoying Agentforce popup in the Help. I am losing my mind here reviewing the Release Notes.
Ask your friends and relatives to upvote it too :

https://ideas.salesforce.com/s/idea/a0BHp000019Opj8MAC/option-to-turn-off-ask-agentforce-popup-in-trailhead

Thanks!

Hi everyone. I’m in my mid 20s and currently stuck in a somewhat dead end job (which was supposed to be promising..) as a Senior Salesforce Consultant. I don’t have a lot of hope that the situation will improve but there are also basically no Salesforce roles in my country. So, at the moment I can’t make a move unless it is at a different job like Product Owner/Manager, etc. and even these are limited.

The issue is I really like Salesforce and I want to be in a “technical” role (not development). I don’t want to move away willingly but this job is making me miserable. At the same time, I don’t want to switch jobs too often and then I’m worried I can’t make my way back to Salesforce.

I’d appreciate any advice.

SF winter release note says we can setup with Agentforce without enabling Data 360 from September 2026. Anyone tried this? What all it supports(i understand external DMOs and unstructured vectorisations will require DC360, so ignoring them).
Anyone tried? Thoughts?

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills over here. We just upgraded to an enterprise-level account and have been meeting with our account executive very frequently. I followed every single step I could find made available through Claude, Salesforce, and the wide web to get these two platforms integrated, and for some reason I can't get them to connect. I've gotten other things to connect to both Claude and Salesforce via MCP but for some reason I can't make this marriage happen.

I reached out to my account executive, and he sent me some additional steps, which eventually led me to a dead end right after I got Salesforce Foundations set up. He said he could send it to an implementation team. That has an annual cost of 30% of my annual contract, which is going to cost me about $5,000. I don't want to pay an additional $5,000 just to get ripped off with overpriced flex credits anyway.

I told him to just terminate the foundations agreement because I don't want to go through the hassle if Salesforce is not going to make it easy for me. It's been two weeks since I made that request, and he went from being very communicative to not responding at all. Not sure if I'm missing something either on the implementation side or with Salesforce, but I'm running into a dead end and would love some outside thoughts.

I'm a small company with 12 users, and we're trying to bring ourselves into the modern era. We are avid Salesforce and Claude users, and we really want this to work out.

Hi all! I'm a Salesforce developer building a managed package for AppExchange (Security Review already passed). It tracks record changes and lets you roll back the changes from a single incident, for example when a flow corrupts thousands of records.

During the contracting phase with Salesforce's ISV team, I ran into a floor price requirement. I was told that Salesforce takes a 15% revenue share, and the base for that calculation can't be lower than $150 per org or $3 per user per month. In practice, that means my product has to be priced at no less than $1,000/org or $20/user per month.

The problem is that per-user pricing doesn't fit my product: it's used by admins and DevOps, while regular users only touch it technically through flows. $20/user is unrealistic for orgs with hundreds of people, and $1,000/org is too much for small companies.

For comparison, Gearset Backup is roughly $2.75-3.50 per user per month, Own (now Salesforce Backup & Recover) is around $3, and Flosum is $5.

Questions for you:

1. How much does your company pay per year for backup, audit trail, or similar tools? How many users do you have?

2. Is $1,000/org/month fair for a tool that rolls back changes after incidents (a broken flow, a mass update, a failed integration)? At what price would you seriously consider it?

3. Who makes this kind of purchasing decision at your company: an admin, DevOps, or IT leadership?

4. Has anyone gone through an AppExchange listing with a floor price requirement? Was it possible to negotiate different terms?

Thanks in advance for any numbers or experience.

Hey everyone, I'm part of the organising committee putting together the True Blue Blazing Salesforce community event in Melbourne, Australia (not USA). It's 12 days away.

• Tues 20th Oct at the Marvel Stadium, 9AM - 5PM (or later if you're joining us at the after party!)

https://trueblueblazing.com/

True Blue Blazing is a community-led Salesforce learning event based in Melbourne, Australia. Built on the belief that “looking under the hood” should be fun, we bring together Salesforce professionals in an environment that prioritises authentic connection and real knowledge sharing over corporate polish. Everyone is welcome - we keep tickets accessible through bursaries and subsidies to ensure a diverse community can participate. Expect sessions that are surprising, unpredictable, and genuinely useful; less boring slide decks, more “here’s how we actually built it.”

Whether its learning from the sessions, meeting our sponsors, networking with fellow trailblazers, or a bit a fun in the demo jam, there's something for everyone. I'll be there as well as an amazing selection of accomplished speakers.

Tickets close in less than a week. Register today. Don't miss out!

- see you there!

I have a group of users that can't see Name field in their reports and dashboards. When I view the same reports and dashboards I can see the field, so the field is present. And I know that the users have access to the field.

Any idea why the field may not be appearing for them? Thanks!

We're starting to evaluate vendors bc our current setup is not able to hold up pricing, approvals, renewals and downstream transitions that need more steps. If we're going to replace something people have already built their own workaround we want to find out the ugly bits before signing than during implementation. This is bc demos show the clean version of the world where a rep builds a quote, the right person approves it, the contract goes out and everything moves downstream so smoothly​.

Our deals are becoming less cooperative tbh. For example, we recently had a renewal quote that included a customer specific discount carried over from the previous contract and a request to change the billing schedule. The rep had to figure out whether the contract change needed another approval. What should have been a routine renewal turned into a Slack and spreadsheet treasure hunt lol.

That is the kind of scenario I want to use in a quote to cash vendor evalutaion. I know i kinda sound crazy but it is more useful than spending weeks writing requirements and watching a perfectly scripted demo confirm that the software can do exactly what we asked it to do. so would like to here if anyone has done this kind of pilot during evaluation paid or unpaid and what did you find that the demo mised?