Salesforce Sales Cloud Features

Allows administrators to customize to accommodate their unique processes. Includes ability to create custom objects, fields, rules, calculations, and views.

Automates a process that requires a series of steps that typically require intervention by a several different users. Administrators can write rules to determine who and when a user needs to complete a step. Also includes notification of users when they need to take action.

Grant access to select data, features, objects, etc. based on the users, user role, groups, etc.

Enables users to view and transact business with the same content in multiple languages and currencies.

Allows administrators to easily develop and test changes to the CRM deployment. After changes are made admins can easily migrate the changes into the "live" or "production" environment.

Allows consuming, publishing and editing content from a central interface. Content management for CRM systems might include presentations, documents, images and other related electronic files.

Software is consistently available (uptime) and allows users to complete tasks quickly because they are not waiting for the software to respond to an action they took.

Allows administrators to create templates that enable users to quickly generate dynamic documents in various formats based on the data stored in the application.

Syncs lead data within the sales database for consistency and accuracy

Provides analysis on lead scores, funnel insights, and both open and closed opportunities

Store and retrieve information associated to customer contacts and accounts. Track company-wide communication and information about contacts and accounts.

Manage partners by tracking channel partner leads and sales opportunities. Provide a partner portal to collaborate with channels on sales opportunities and to share product, pricing, quoting, ordering, and training information

Manage sales opportunities through their lifecycle from lead to order. Track stages, values, and probabilities of close. Manage sales pipelines by individual sales rep, team, region, and company-wide.

Manage and track tasks and activities. Assign due dates and integrate to calendars to manage daily schedules and priorities.

Assign and manage sales quotas and territories. Track progress against quotas. Change as needed.

Allows users to sync their Email, Calendar and Contact tools with their CRM system. Includes Microsoft Outlook and Google integration.

Enter product/part numbers and manage the prices associated with them. Typically functionality allows users to add products and prices to opportunities and quotes if these modules are provided within the same system.

Allows users to create a quote to be provided to a customer that contain at least products, prices and associated discounts. Order management allows users to process orders that contain products, prices and associated discounts.

Management of contracts made with customers. Contract management includes negotiating the terms and conditions in contracts and ensuring compliance with the terms and conditions, as well as documenting and agreeing on any changes or amendments that may arise during its implementation or execution.

Allows users to send email to contacts in bulk. Common features include: Built in Email templates, social media integration, Subscriber list management, sign up forms, success rate reports, AB testing and auto-responders.

Optimizes the process for organizations to develop and deploy multiple-channel marketing campaigns to target groups or individuals and track the effect of those campaigns, by customer segment, over time.

Allows users to manage and track leads though a process. The lead process typically involves steps such as: 1. Lead Generation, 2. Customer Inquiry, Inquiry Capture, Lead Filtering, Lead Grading, Lead Distribution and Lead Qualification.

Enables analysis of effectiveness of an organizations various marketing activities

Tracks issues/help requests reported by customers through the resolution process.

Provides a convenient way for customers to get answers to inquiries, post service issues, place orders, view order histories, and gain access to other information contained in the knowledge base.

Information repository that provides a means for information to be collected, organized, shared, searched and utilized. Allows customers to get answers to common questions.

Allows customer support professionals access to all information required to support the customer including customer information, case history and related customer social activity. Common features include: call recording, analytics, workforce management, call script management, and compliance management.

Enables analysis of customer support activities to optimize customer support professionals, processes and tools.

Ability to input, modify and extract data from the application in bulk through a structured file.

Application Programming Interface - Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc with other software applications.

To what extent are there partner applications readily available for integrating into this product? Partner applications typically provide complementary, best of breed functionality not offered natively in this product.

Enables multiple users to interact by sharing information to achieve a common goal. Social collaboration focus's on the identification of groups and collaboration spaces in which messages are explicitly directed at the group and the group activity feed is seen the same way by everyone

Use public social networks to listen and engage with customers. Allows users to filter what’s important and respond quickly. Often this functionality allows questions and requests from customers on social networks to case management.

Allows software to be easily used on multiple mobile devices include phone and tablet devices.

Enables reporting of all data contained within the system. Typically contains standard reports as well as the ability to create ad-hoc reports.

An easy to read, often single page, real-time user interface, showing a graphical presentation of the current status and historical trends of an organization’s Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to enable instantaneous and informed decisions to be made at a glance

Enables projection of sales revenue, based on historical sales data, analysis of market surveys and trends, and salespersons' estimates.

Compiles data from a breadth of either internal or external sources.

Enables user to communicate data by securely exporting and sharing it.

Allows users to view data visualizations on several devices.

Dashboards which are customizable and interactive so that the user can view sales information in a way that fits his or her needs.

Enables user to segment customer or prospect data in meaningful ways such as by industry or region.

Provides scores or rankings of each prospect based on the data provided.

Provides insights to determine which deals already in the pipeline have the best chance of closing.

Warns sales teams of accounts that may be at risk of being lost.

Provides live customer data so that sales organizations forecasts stay current.

Updates every time a change is made enabling users to trace a deal through the pipeline.

Enables competition between a sales team by providing things like challenges and scoreboards.

Provides insightful data at the account level to arm salespeople with the most relevant information possible.

Enables sales managers to stay on top of their team activities by providing visibility into customer communication.

Ability to import sales and marketing collateral built outside of the solution

Provides capabilities for building unique sales and marketing content within the product.

Provides pre-built templates for fast and simple content creation.

Able to easily search, locate, and retrieve relevant content.

Provides the ability to store and organize content.

Provides real-time reporting and analytics that track metrics and engagement data on sales enablement content, resources, activities, learning, etc.l

Sends a notification when a prospect engages or interacts with content.

Tracks the level of engagement for a specific account based on the presented content.

Tracks how frequently a particular piece of content is being used and monitors its effectiveness.

Records the rate at which emails are opened.

Records the rate at which links in emails are followed.

Records the rate at which email attachments are opened or downloaded.

Organizes knowledge from fellow sales representatives and other experienced employees for reference.

Offers content and training for new hires within the tool.

Allows for the creation of a customized playbook that new hires can use for reference in understanding company-specific sales processes.

Records users' practice or live pitches for future reference and improvement.

Lets managers review recorded video pitches to discuss areas of skill and areas that require improvement.

Provides a scorecard to display team and/or individual performance.

Allows managers to utilize and snapshot scorecards to coach new hires and assign action items.

Projects team sales performance publicly to reward and motivate employees.

Updates sales data in real-time so as to help teams remain close to their goals.

Notifies users of company-specified "danger zones" to correct behaviors and re-align sales processes in the right direction.

Motivates employees by creating time-sensitive competititons that drive performance.

Aligns lead scores with predefined lead distribution criteria

Matches and assigns leads to the correct sales representative

Determines which leads should be prioritized and then accelerates them up the pipeline

Integrates with lead capture and lead intelligence tools to discover leads

Creates and assigns scoring system to rank the viability of leads

Integrates with CRM or marketing automation tools to contextualize lead data

Reports on and analyzes lead scores to determine the conversion rate of lead opportunities

Aligns lead scores and strategy with existing sales operations

Records calls for future reference.

Generates an area code local to where the user is calling to increase likelihood of pick-up.

Allows users to perform calls from their preferred device, whether laptop, desktop, mobile or otherwise.

Gathers contacts from integrated tools, allowing users to call with one click.

Has auto-dialing or predictive dialing functionality.

Retains a log of extraneous contact information such as timezone and contact engagement.

Finds and opens saved contact information for reference at the time of a new call.

Allows users to denote which contacts they believe are prospective customers.

Allows users to take notes during or after the call for future reference.

Delivers users a daily summary of activity.

Sends automated voicemails to prospective clients who fail to answer.

Sends automated emails to increase engagement with prospective clients.

Organizes contacts based on probability of success.

Automatically transcribes and summarizes meeting discussions.

Syncs information from other software such as contacts, emails and calls to reduce manual data entry.

Allows administrators to schedule out emails in advance.

Reminds administrators to follow-up on emails based on pre-set reminders.

Allows for the categorization of emails.

Allows for the creation of templates for frequently-sent emails.

Assigns achievement badges to high-performing employees based on pre-determined standards.

Automatically recognizes achievements that should be added to the leaderboard.

Helps users determine sales goals by calculating potential commission rates.

Highlights top-performing employees to publicly reward their achievements.

Creates user profiles similar to social media pages that display private or public statuses and updates.

Generates reports with customizable fields to further understand employee performance.

Visualizes individual and team insights such as new leads and outbound calls.

Allows teams to set trackable goals within the tool.

Integrates with CRM and financial systems to help determine goals

Organizes team members by roles, activities and objectives and weighs tasks by importance.

Allows managers and administrators to peruse profiles and monitor employee behavior and performance.

Ability to create a map from different perspectives and with varying geographic features.

Create a map made up of points and lines that may have additional information assigned to them.

Ability to translate data and metrics into charts, graphs, and other ways to communication information.

Visualize different forms of data in one single image.

Make informed decisions and predict patterns based on data.

Select a point on the map and display data within a certain radius.

Use data to gather information about a specific location's geographic features.

Study data in live time to analyze any changes happening in the location.

The ability to convert the format of source data to one required for the reporting system.

Easily design and refine dashboards and reports.

Integrating APIs that allow you to customize your tool as needed.

Offers a chatbot to initiate and carryout inital conversations with prospects and leads.

Automatically calculates which leads are the most likely to become a customer.

Automatically contacts all leads.

Utilizes natural language processing to set up meetings.

Manage sales opportunities through their lifecycle from lead to order. Track stages, values, and probabilities of close. Manage sales pipelines by individual sales rep, team, region, and company-wide.

Automates the entry of collected data.

Application Programming Interface - Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc. with other software applications.

Provides real-time coaching to sales representatives.

Tracks and analyzes sales representative performance.

Measure return on investment and leverage data to predict profitability of future projects.

Enables projection of sales revenue, based on historical sales data, analysis of market surveys and trends, and salespersons' estimates.

Automates in-system tasks and provides reminders and details for manual tasks for sales team members to complete.

Integrates tightly with email inbox and allows the scheduling and tracking of email outreach and correspondence.

Provides sales dialer functionality or integrates tightly with dialer software, with useful automation and high-quality calls.

Provides relevant automation in sales channels outside of email and calls, like social media posts, SMS text messages and more.

Provides two-way integration with sales CRM: (1) Tracking sales team actions and prospect responses and (2) Pulling CRM data to populate and personalize sales outreach.

Integrates with calendar software so users can seamlessly schedule calls.

Automatically assign strategic leads and accounts to individual reps in a shared bucket for anyone to work on.

Retains and incorporates company-approved messaging and presentations into emails, calls, meetings, etc.

Orchestrates automated sales tasks and outreach across a number of channels (email, calls, social media, etc.) and/or integrated systems.

Reports on the effectiveness of an entire outreach workflow as well as the effectiveness of specific marketing materials, messaging, outreach tactics, and team members.

Surfaces relevant insights about how a team member can perform better, either with improved sales techniques or prospect-specific hints.

Provides gamifaction features to rank sales reps on performance

Records sales calls and facilitates playback

Utilizes machine learning technology to analyze recorded sales calls

Analyzes or facilitates the analysis of recorded and stored sales calls for insight

Leverages analytics to qualify and score calls in real time

Leverages technology to rate or "read" recordings to determine the impact of sales calls

Transcribes sales calls from speech to text

Utilizes artifical intelligence to analyze emotional tone and interactions in a conversation

Allows users to create lead prioritization rules to prioritize the msot important bueyrs and customers.

Provides lead scoring features that allow user to target leads that are the most qualified and likely to engage

Provides features that allow users to identify and automate the best time to send out emails or other sales engagement communcations

Provides features that allow users to have insight into buyer profiles such as likelihood to respond to emails and calls.

Provides AI and machine learning features that offer predictive recommendations no how to engage with buyers based on historical buyer behavior.

Allows users to track how previous revenue forecasts have developed over time

Allows users to track pipeline to identify deals that are stalled, at risks and future opportunities

Reports results on revenue attainment, conversion rate, and overall revenue analytics

Allows users to view data visualizations on several devices

Enables user to segment customer or prospect revenue data in meaningful ways such as by industry or region.

Provides users with ability to predict upcoming forecast based on AI insights and deal health

Provides users with ability to analyze weekly, monthly, and quarterly operational cadences to ensure success

Automatically associates calendar invites to update deal progress in a CRM

Automatically associates sales activities within emails to the relevant accounts in your CRM

Automatically associates sales activities within conversation intelligence tools to the relevant accounts in your CRM

Automatically links marketing leads to sales generated opportunities in your CRM

Automatically captures contacts engaged with and associates to relevant accounts in a CRM

Identifies accounts that sales reps aren't engaging with

Maximizes account coverage by determining the optimal number of accounts per rep

Identifies common themes among historical deals that are won or lost

Identifies common themes and actions amongst reps that close the most deals

Allows users to track the level of engagement with each account and provides insights on frequency of engagement

Identifies common themes among historical deals that are won or lost to provide insights into successful strategies

Allows users to control of the sizes, shapes, and quantites of sales team areas

Allows users to map your customers to strategically incorporate them into your canvassing and field sales

Automatically assigns reps to new sales opportunities that are within their current territories

Allows user to prioritize your contacts and leads so that the given route acommodates priority contacts

Allows users to create optimized travel routes based on assigned areas, lead locations, and appointments for the day.

Provides users with live directions en route to the final destination

Provides users with engaging sales competitions

Provides field sales statistics for all sales reps

Provides data on the data on the performance and whereabouts of reps in the field

Provides video capabilties that field reps can use during field sales calls

Allows field reps to create digital contracts within the software

Allows users to collect e-signatures within the software

This software integrates with Microsoft Teams.

This software integrates with popular email providers.

This software integrates with Zoom.

This software integrates with Google Meet.

This software integrates with Salesforce.

Provide the ability to create a custom booking page.

Provide the ability to create custom scheduling URLs.

Provide the ability to create a personalized web embed.

Allow users to set automatic working hours.

Automatically update calendars after a meeting has been booked.

Provide the ability to incorporate buffer times, leaving time before and after meetings.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Provides ability to score accounts based on potential revenue to prioritize accordingly.

Provides ability to structure topline revenue goals.

Segment accounts based on ideal customer profile and business objectives.

Ability to monitor plan performance data to identify deviations and course correct for rep and business unit.

Forecast sales data for sales teams, individual reps, territories, or products.

Integrates with a variety of business systems to pull in relevant data and make data-driven decisions.

Abilty to create and run "what-if" scenario modeling to inform business decisions.

Ability to manage distribution of territories and alter segmentation and coverage to meet business goals.

Define territories to ensure optimized market coverage and allocate resources appropriately.

Ability to manage and adjust quotas continuously as needed based on market changes, new hires, territory changes.

Enable organizations to adjust sales capacity based on volatility such as headcount changes, restructuring, or organizational growth.

Design quota targets based on factors such as account size, rep performance, and pipeline needs.

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Provides interactive learning to improve skill gaps through role-playing, practicing pitches, scenario-based simulations, etc.

Offers real-time feedback and actionable insights from structured, customized sales coaching assessments and templates.

Provides personalized, interactive training to onboard new hires successfully while monitoring their progress and readiness.

Provides the tools and resources for alignment of all revenue-generating teams to engage customers in a consistent and personalized way

Uses AI for predictive insights, recommendations for content, or automating workflows for onboarding and learning assignments

Delivers a holistic view of interaction data and behavioral patterns across the entire customer journey to improve the buying experience and drive revenue growth

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Connects to multiple software systems or databases to gather relevant context data for AI agents

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Turns unstructured conversation data into clear, actionable insights for coaching, deal analysis, and operational improvement

Provides users with ability to predict upcoming forecast based on AI insights and deal health

Augments, improves or enriches CRM data

Gathers actionable insights from customer interactions for strategic decison making

Flags deals at risk, declined engagement, stalled opportunities, or other warnings in order to prevent issues from escalating

Coordinates and aligns on actions across sales, marketing, customer success, and RevOps in a unified platform

Surface insights from key deals, account signals, conversations, and win/loss patterns for offering data-driven coaching or feedback

Allows users to track pipeline to identify deals that are stalled, at risk, and future opportunities

Collects and organizes customer interaction data from multiple channels or systems