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Salesforce Experience Cloud
Formerly Salesforce Community Cloud

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What is Salesforce Experience Cloud?

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement (formerly Salesforce Experience Cloud or Salesforce Community Cloud) is an online forum powered by Salesforce that enables businesses to connect with their employees, customers, partner organizations, and prospects. Designed to help facilitate communication and information…

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Product Details

What is Salesforce Experience Cloud?

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement (formerly Salesforce Experience Cloud or Salesforce Community Cloud) is an online forum powered by Salesforce that enables businesses to connect with their employees, customers, partner organizations, and prospects. Designed to help facilitate communication and information sharing, customers can ask questions and request help, administrators can integrate data from third-party apps, and employees can collaborate across projects and tasks.


The updated Salesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement allows users to reflect their brands and extend digital experiences across customer touchpoints, as well as create environments that are an interactive extension of a brand.

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Aubrey Miles | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Salesforce is used by almost every department at my company including Sales, Customer Service, Billing, Accounts Receivable, and Provisioning. It really helps us to keep all notes and documents related to a customer in a common place where all departments can have access. It is also helpful for showing how specific billing accounts are related to each other with the hierarchy feature.
  • The hierarchy feature is great for showing related accounts & sub-accounts. This makes it easy to address all issues under a common grouping of accounts when speaking to a customer.
  • The chatter feature is extremely useful for alerting coworkers that their attention is needed on a specific case or work order. This sends an email to the person which includes your note to them.
  • The search feature in Salesforce is great. You can search by work order number, customer number, customer name, contact name, among many other things. It is very easy to find what you are looking for.
  • Certain packages offered by Salesforce Community Cloud have an odd "shared success" payment model that may not be suitable for all companies.
  • A large number of features available may be overwhelming for new users.
Salesforce Community Cloud is best suited for business-to-business sales. SFCC makes it very easy to keep all contacts, quotes, contracts, etc. organized for prospects and customers. Everything is easily viewed in history & can be accessed across multiple departments. The hierarchy tool allows you to see how accounts and sub-accounts are related. SFCC may be less useful for companies that do not deal with customers that have multiple account levels.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Salesforce is a system we use as a sales organization which helps our base stay organized when we have thousands of different accounts we service daily. The problems it solves vary from being able to put our accounts in a hierarchy for optimal organization, putting in follow-ups so we can keep track of our customers and it also syncs with our chat system which is an awesome integration!
  • Tracks and allows follow-ups.
  • Makes it easy to use from any location.
  • Syncs with Outlook so your emails are automatically logged to the accounts.
  • Deleting accounts but I believe this is a permissions fix.
Well suited for cross-communication from Rep to Rep when dealing with a high traffic industry.
October 15, 2019

A wonderful tool

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SFDC is used across the entire organization. It is our system of record for opportunities. It is used for sales reporting and compensation.
  • Integration with Outlook.
  • Ease of dashboard creation.
  • Ability to lock down an opportunity once it is won.
  • I would like the ability to see the change history of all fields.
SFDC is a great tool for sales and pipeline tracking. No complaints here!
Taylor Martz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's being used by the entire company and operating as a shared intranet space for employees to connect and see updates from the company and other employees in various departments around the organization. Employees automatically have it set as their home page and see it first thing when they open a new tab in their internet browser, prompting them to check out what's new.
  • Shows real-time updates.
  • It allows for separate governance plans.
  • It can be used widely across an organization, simply.
  • Easy to use interface.
  • The document hierarchy and storage was difficult to navigate at times.
  • Accessing the community dashboard was tough as it is hidden in the back-end.
  • Out of the box layout, not as much customization as we would have liked.
It worked well for our company intranet but is not the best solution available. It was great for a homepage and real-time updates. The governance setup was nice. It was not great for a lot of admins - was easy to get confused if you have not been properly trained. It was a little boxy so it's not great for customization (unless our SF Admin team was just not adept at coding).
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my role and at my organization, we recommend products like Salesforce Community Cloud (within the Salesforce Ecosystem) to clients that could benefit from it. Certainly, there are many use cases for our successes with this particular product, but what I often find and reflect on in my role is what's possible with Salesforce Community Cloud to create more interconnections between our organization, our partners, and our customers. The overlap helps us refine and enhance our processes to deliever better outcomes and help our clients do the same. Though I'm fairly new to this particular product, my understanding of it through Salesforce Trailhead and work with our clients through the digital marketing realm has enlightened me with conversation.
  • Enables Stronger Business Relationships
  • Creates Brand Identity
  • Facilitates Personalized Digital Experiences
  • None that come to mind - integrations, experience, and use is great! However, if you're trying to learn it yourself, you may benefit from consulting an expert. Or, if you're wondering if it's good for you, a business analysis will suit you well before you implement to save yourselves, time, money, efforts, and even people.
I would recommend Salesforce Community Cloud to any organization that aims to develop stronger connections internally, and with their customers and business partners. In the current marketplace, it's essential for businesses to be a part of the social media space, and Salesforce Community Cloud helps you do that while connecting important customer data that leads to other departmental successes and your collective growth as an organization.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our team uses The Community cloud to facilitate a customer portal to allow users for self-service access. We've built in integrations and components that make this more user-friendly and allows the users to have access to a lot of their information around the clock to have proper planning and increase productivity.
  • Lightning is a robust and forward development platform.
  • Access to Salesforce and objects are simple and quick.
  • The speed to developing and deploying are very streamlined.
  • The development stack requires a decent amount of experience.
  • The guide rails for system limits would be a little better if shared with development.
  • Known issues are not shared as often, unless a problem is presented.
If you need to spin up a site for collaboration or information for your current Salesforce user base, then communities is the best option, as it allows easy access. It also allows quick spin up of components and development of new functionality that may not be out of the box with regular updates.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Salesforce App Cloud is being used predominantly within Marketing and Sales. It is our single source of truth for all prospect engagements and customer management. As a sales rep, I rely on Salesforce daily to keep track of tasks relating to my accounts and to measure/improve my performance week to week.
  • Visualizes the performance of a team
  • Tracks all customer/prospect engagements
  • Enables easy communication between departments on the statuses of clients
  • Reporting functionality has quite a learning curve to set up
  • Sometimes SO many features that I'm overwhelmed and miss out on relevant ones
  • Can be a burden to update at times
In any instance where you're selling into large accounts where several stakeholders exist, Salesforce App Cloud is well suited. Any kind of enterprise business would benefit. If it's a very transactional business or small brick & mortar store where ongoing relationships aren't nearly as critical, it wouldn't be as relevant. You could likely get by with a lighter weight CRM.
Robin Craigen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This product has enabled us to advance the way we are working with our customers in providing them with exceptional details on booking vacation packages and hospitality services. We have found Salesforce Community Could to be easy use, reliable and customer friendly in how this looks from the outside. This is being used by our guest services and reservations team.
  • Improving the information that we receive from guests
  • Improving communication with our guests
  • Improving our ability to keep track of multiple items
  • Cost
Salesforce is easy to use.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to allow members to communicate with each other regarding upcoming events, current topics and develop future ideas. It allows our large user base the ability to interact with each other and increases their engagement and gives them more incentive to repeatedly visit our website and live the brand. We also use it internally to manage issues and maintain customer satisfaction within the call center and other departments. It facilitates issue management and communication across different teams in the organization.
  • It has a lot of features baked in that are ready to go out of the box which should satisfy most use cases.
  • It can be relatively easily customized to meet the individual needs of a company without giving too much ability to poorly build it.
  • Integrates well with the rest of an existing Salesforce org if you have one.
  • Users will already be familiar with the UI if they're using Salesforce for other reasons.
  • You need to build Visualforce pages for any functionality beyond the very standard stuff.
  • It doesn't have any "forum" style capability out of the box which is what we were looking to create.
  • Depending on how you want to use it, it could require a lot of extra user licenses which can cost money.
  • The cost of running community cloud when you consider where you want to grow the community could quickly grow.
I think for most business Community Cloud serves a great purpose. You can use it for clients on an external-facing level for them to interact with each other and your business. It can also be used internally for employees to communicate with each other about records in Salesforce which really promotes living in the system and a real ecosystem feel rather than hopping around to chat or email. It is a great system of record too since those conversations are captured.
Nathan Baker | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Salesforce Community Cloud serves as our external Salesforce interface for prospective students to apply for admission to Taylor University, as well as manage their application file with uploading documents, checking their status, and updating information. Salesforce Community Cloud is a robust real-time interface for external customers to engage with internal employees via Salesforce.
  • Easy to build interface for internal and external constituents
  • Adaptable Lightning components make field visibility and security easy to manage on the page layout
  • Security of data is important and the native Salesforce log-in requirements for all users (external and internal) ensures data integrity
  • The designer elements are sometimes incapable with some browsers and devices.
  • Heavy graphics or design elements can cause page loading to be slow
  • The Community Cloud designer requires a thorough understanding of underlying data elements and design standards.
Salesforce Community Cloud is ideal for current Salesforce CRM customers who want internal or external constituents to access, view, update, and interact with existing Salesforce data. This is particularly helpful for security and web-based applications requiring customer data to be collected or updated in a manner consistent with current security protocols.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our Sales Department uses Salesforce to keep track of our customer interactions. It's great to see what the other team members are accomplishing and track metrics that matter to our sales team.

It works on mobile platforms, making it easier to get things done when away from my desk as well as collaborate with colleagues on the go.
  • Easy platform to navigate
  • Real time tracking of events makes it nice to compare tasks with the team
  • Integrates with Outlook and ToutApp
  • Convenient to view on any mobile device, making it easier to engage outside of the office
  • Nothing I can think of
Great for an internal social network across our sales team, keeps us up to date on what others on the team are doing and tracking activities, which we measure for bonus purposes. Also helps to measure metrics and even pull reports based on product history, predictive analytics etc.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it for a department only. This department runs a state-wide resources and referral program. We use Salesforce Community Cloud to list health information/resources. Users can search for resources based on their needs. They can also read articles we post to educate themselves. They can also contact us from the community cloud and it connects to the service cloud to become a case our staff to respond to.
  • Powerful search bar
  • Easy to use pre-built theme/design.
  • Easy to set up data fields
  • Display design is very limited unless you have someone who knows how to code.
  • Pre-built data fields' labels cannot be changed. Such as "shipping address" cannot be changed to "physical address".
  • Search bar cannot return data from data field that's not text field.
If your data is pretty straightforward Community Cloud can definitely do the work beautifully. However, if you have a group of similar data in different structures - say you have "autism" topic in screening, treatment, support group and in articles as well and when you search "autism", users will have to manually filter through a bunch of results returned in all different categories to figure out what they are looking for.
Geetha Pendyala | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use the community cloud for our patients to address their problems, place orders from the community portal and provide information of the products they use. We have several communities using it in our org. Each community is used for a different purpose.
  • It helps customers, partners, and employees to share information and help each other find answers.
  • Community cloud deepens the relationships with customers by giving the opportunity to provide better service by enabling customers to find information and assist each other.
  • Easy to build different communities for different purposes.
  • Pricing for communities is really high.
  • Time for loading a community page is a little more.
  • Cache in the browser causes problem when loading communities.
Self-service empowers customers to find answers to their questions with a searchable knowledge base, and work together to answer one another’s questions and solve problems, dramatically reducing service cases while increasing customer satisfaction. Customers always feels engaged using communities. Community Templates are secure, reliable, scalable, and optimized for mobile. Lightning Community Builder makes it easy to customize mobile-optimized community to perfectly match the org name which includes incorporating third-party and custom components for ultimate customization.
Tony Messier | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Salesforce Community Cloud was used as a self service portal for customers to review and update their information, view documents and statements that were available to them, communicate with staff via Chatter, and submit cases. It was the main customer facing site between the company and the customer.
  • There is a clear advantage for companies that are already using Salesforce internally. It’s just an extension of your current functionality and data, and very little training is needed for internal users to manage.
  • Templates make it easy to set up, yet still customize to your company brand.
  • Availability of other Salesforce features lets you keep everything on one platform.
  • It can get expensive pretty quickly.
Salesforce Community Cloud is the solution if you want to communicate and share data with your customers, partners, or employees. It’s an extremely customizable platform that can be tailored to any scenario.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Salesforce Community Cloud is used by our company as our central knowledge repository. It is used by the marketing and sales department to host best practices knowledge articles. The implementation and customer support departments utilize it to post and track issue resolution articles. Other departments within the organization also use Salesforce Community Cloud as a wiki site for different projects.
  • Fosters communication within the different departments in the company.
  • With the ability to comment on knowledge articles we can elicit instant feedback.
  • The templates available have issues importing formatted documents from Microsoft Word.
Salesforce Community Cloud is an extremely user-friendly application and offers great features. It is ideal for the business requirement we needed to fulfill.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Salesforce Community cloud is being used by the entire organisation in order to keep everything up-to-date. We make sure everyone is able to have insight in the data that gets passed on between the marketing department and the sales department. This tackles the problem of miscommunication and lack of information in meetings.
  • Allows feedback and records of competitive information
  • Keeps our employees current in industry trends
  • Quite the learning curve. We had to provide employees with courses to make sure they understood what we were trying to do and the importance of the project.
Salesforce Community cloud is well suited for mid to large companies that tend to lack the thrust to move forward due to the lack of communication. It can be a really helpful tool for these companies in order to provide data and information about industry trends to all departments and expertises.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Salesforce Community Cloud is currently being used by our service team members. We are building our information knowledge base within the Salesforce Community Cloud to offer our service teams with immediate access to common answers.
  • Salesforce Community Cloud is very easy to navigate and find information quickly.
  • Salesforce Community Cloud offers a nice UI that is easy to set up and customize.
  • Salesforce Community Cloud offers integration within the Service Cloud so agents can access information easily.
  • Salesforce Community Cloud has met all of our needs and use cases, so far.
Salesforce Community Cloud is well suited for use within any organization where general information needs to be stored and easily accessed across many users. It may not be as well suited for organizations that do more customized support that is unique and needs to be handled by a specialist on a case-by-case basis.
February 01, 2018

Community Cloud adopter

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Salesforce Cloud is being used as a repository of industry information including competition and things our sales reps are hearing from the field. It allows folks to input whatever information is relevant and top of mind in our space.
  • Keeps our employees current in industry trends
  • Allows feedback and records of competitive information
  • none
Very well suited for companies that have a large field sales team; companies with several competitors; suited in an industry that is always changing
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Community cloud provides an excellent way to interact with information from your Salesforce instance in a secure area where your users are authenticated. It allows partners or constituents to update information, interact with one another, and access learning and articles.
  • Portal with authenticated login.
  • Interact with live Salesforce data.
  • Ability to integrate other systems into the community makes it very powerful.
  • Price can be expensive if you need a lot of licenses.
  • Functionality continues to be created and as lightning is developed will become more powerful.
  • When a self-service community is needed.
  • When a secure community is needed for customers or constituents to interact.
  • When you have important data in Salesforce that you want to extend to a wider audience in a secure way.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Salesforce Communities to manage our customer support hub, as well as our internal knowledge base. Because the product can do a range of different things, it's a great "homepage" for all things support. We've built out several different pages and ways to find customer support using the tool and some of the ad ons.

From a business standpoint, it has helped us make our support model more scalable. Customers can still contact a rep directly, but the community acts as a first touch since we've packed it with training videos, articles, and our customer community (where customers can interact with one another).
  • The CMS is pretty easy to use. They offer editable sections that are pretty plug-and-play with content.
  • It's fairly flexible. We've used it as a shell for some other custom pages that we can link to using the community.
  • It's simple to manage. Once you've actually built the community, managing it is easy. You don't have to be a developer to make it work.
  • Some of the editable sections are clunky. For instance, the rich text editor can be a bit of a pain. If you're just using it for text then it's fine, however, making custom banners or playing with the HTML is not great.
  • Organization behind the scenes can get ugly. Terminology used can be confusing and counter intuitive. We've struggled when adding articles based on the organizational structure.
  • It's connection to our case-tracking details in Salesforce don't feel complete. It's not easy for our customers to log a case and see everything that's open. I'd expect this to be better since it's a direct integration with Salesforce.
I didn't actually develop the community, so maybe if I played a hand in the back end, I'd have a higher rating. Overall, it's a good tool that has really helped us address a specific need. It's just difficult to use. If you're able to get a developer to build it all exactly how you want, then I'm sure it's great, we just didn't have that luxury.
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Salesforce Communities is a feature that we have at our organization, but we don't really use it especially often. That is to say, it's not something that was mandated by the company. It seems like a haphazard way of trying to add communication or a social integration to a product that doesn't really need to have those elements. Or at least, it's not well executed enough to use.
  • Easy to connect or "follow" other employees
  • Pretty intuitive to use
  • It doesn't offer enough value for what it is (It's like Google Circles with no user base)
  • Too simple
  • Visibility between users is often different and thus confusing
It's good for connecting among coworkers in the same, or different department that are using Salesforce. The button is literally called "connect." By doing this you can follow cases that others are working on, almost like a Facebook feed, except for work. Though in my context, it's just not useful. I don't need most of the information that it shows.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Salesforce Chatter which is a part of the Salesforce Communities to share information and exchange any data with other employees. It's helpful in the sense that many of our staff are offsite and if anyone has a question we can communicate through this platform instead of constantly texting or calling one another.
  • Exchange data and images
  • Easy to use and connect
  • Platform is clean and simple
  • Data isn't always saved properly
  • Images don't appear at all times
  • Contacts can be lost even though they are used a lot
If staff need to input contacts or information for new employees without being at a central location, Salesforce Communities can help with that! We have 9 partners that we constantly have inputting information on Salesforce and with this tool, we are able to guide each other on any issues we may encounter during our work time. It is fast and easy to use.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Currently developing as a client facing portal, where clients can submit cases, interact with others, source knowledge articles, etc. It has not yet been released, we are continuing to work through getting it set up exactly how we want.
  • The set up for basic functionality is easy.
  • Provides a space for collaboration among all users.
  • Different access levels among users.
  • More specific customization would be nice. Specifically, not having to chose one specific template. In some cases, we wish we could chose 2 at once!
  • Ways of displaying/categorizing the knowledge base for users could be improved.
  • Displaying/hiding specific data could be more straightforward for managers/admins.
It's a great space for clients/customers to access articles and participate in feedback/community setting with a group. As long as you have someone who is well versed in setting up and maintaining the community then I really can't think of a situation where it wouldn't be beneficial in some aspect.
Amy Lipsius | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have the Salesforce Community Cloud deployed for our customers to get information they need quickly, with ease, and any day of the week, any time of day, as we are a global organization. We have both a client-facing community as well as an employee-only community. Both are widely adopted and growing.
  • Restrict access
  • Discussions
  • Case Visibility
  • Search
  • Ideation
  • WYSIWYG Editor / Styling
  • Navigation Management
In organizations that already have Salesforce deployed for account management or CRM, it is helpful to have Cases, Communities, Chatter, etc. all deployed to keep the information in one spot. Salesforce has a hefty price tag, so businesses not looking for an enterprise-type solution may want to consider alternatives.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Salesforce Communities as our support with a knowledge base and forum. It is currently used by the customer success team and we have plans to incorporate other departments as well. It helps provide a place for articles, discussions, videos, and other support-related material. The goal is that the customer will find the answers there before calling our support team.
  • Native to Salesforces so a huge plus if you already use Salesforce as your CRM
  • Templates work fine if you use them out of the box
  • Hard to customize unless you have a developer
  • Can be slow to load
If you are using Salesforce already and do not want to integrate with another community, Salesforce Community can work for you. If you don't want to customize a lot of things and it could work for you as well. If you want to customize, you will need to have a developer on your team.
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