Cut Salesforce Costs by over 20%

Discover Your License Strategy

Are you paying for Salesforce features you don’t need?

For most Salesforce customers this is an impossible question to answer.

  • Do your Users access data that require a Salesforce license?

  • Are the Add-Ons assigned to your Users compatible with a Platform license?

  • How many custom objects does each of your Users access?

  • Do your Users have 1 of the 93 sys permissions which are not compatible with Platform licenses?

The answers to these questions have been spread across the setup menu and endless help articles discouraging many customer from developing a license strategy.

Want to pay less without sacrificing functionality?

Salesforce offers Platform licenses at a fraction of the cost with full access to:

  • Accounts & Contacts

  • Activity

  • Notes & Attachments

  • Custom Objects

  • Reports & Dashboards

  • … etc.

It’s easy to edit an existing User’s license making the process of updating licenses quick and painless.

How much are you paying for shelfware?

Many companies utilize as little as 60% of their licenses, paying for Software that sits on the shelf.

Employee departures, acquiring Add-Ons & Managed Packages that were never fully implement and evolving business needs leads to accumulating fixed recurring costs.

It’s easy to buy more licenses, it’s hard to be certain about which licenses you can stop paying for

How Does Era Help?

Era Recommends Core License Adjustments

Through capturing and analyzing User Data Access, Add On Compatibility and Permission Compatibility Era identifies Users who are eligible to have their core license changed.

Era Surfaces and Quantifies Shelfware Costs

Evaluating your relevant metadata Era surface all of your unused licenses in a single dashboard as well as the cost of those unused licenses whether they are Core, Add On or Managed Packages.

FAQs

What is a Salesforce Platform license? 

A Salesforce Platform license gives Users access to core Salesforce infrastructure, custom apps, and custom objects, but excludes some standard objects like Leads, Opportunities, Cases, and Campaigns. 

What are the Core License Changes that Era recommends

The License changes that Era will recommend are:

  1. Unlimited > Platform

  2. Enterprise > Platform

  3. Professional > Platform

  4. Partner > Customer

Looking to evaluate a license change not listed here? Shoot us an email to find out if it is something in our road map: support@eracloud.co

How much does a Salesforce Platform license cost? 

Salesforce Platform licenses retail price is $25/user/month, significantly less than Enterprise licenses, which are listed for $165/user/month. 

Can you mix Salesforce Platform and Enterprise licenses? 

Yes! Organizations can mix different license types, assigning Platform licenses to Users who don’t need full CRM features while keeping Salesforce licenses for those who do.

Can you change a User’s license from Salesforce to Platform?

Yes!

Can you chance a User’s license from Platform to Salesforce?

Yes!