What Is AppExchange? A Complete Explanation [2024]
Last Updated: October 10, 2024
If you have a business and want to boost its digital presence, Salesforce AppExchange is your safest bet. Are you a sales rep, marketer, or a customer service agent? Again, consider this handy place that will definitely meet your every need.
In this post, we uncover the meaning behind AppExchange, show how it works, and what benefits you might get with it.
What is AppExchange?
AppExchange is a leading marketplace offering solutions, such as apps, components, and consulting services. To make your own solution publicly available to potential customers, you must be a Salesforce partner.
How Does AppExchange Work?
The creative power behind each AppExchange solution is a Salesforce partner. AppExchange gives partners a place to create and publish extensions to Salesforce. AppExchange is also the place for Salesforce admins to choose and install solutions that fit their org’s needs. Here’s how AppExchange works. A Salesforce partner initiates the process by creating an innovation that can improve a business process, such as a custom object, custom tab, or component.
Partners share their customizations with other Salesforce users as a packaged AppExchange solution, whether an app, a Bolt solution, a Flow solution, Lightning data, or a component.PublishThe Salesforce partner registers, packages, and publishes their solution on AppExchange.
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They can also create a demo of the functionality included in their solution for others to view before installing and include a trial version.InstallSalesforce customers browse solutions published on AppExchange and choose which solutions to install in their orgs. Installing a published AppExchange solution is safe and simple. Customers can:
Browse
View the descriptions, reviews, and demos of solutions on AppExchange. They choose the solution that fits their needs.
Test Drive
Review a fully functional demo of the solution as a read-only user, and plan their implementation with their admins.
Install
Add the solution and all its components to their Salesforce environment.
Deploy
Immediately give their users access to the solution or customize it for a select group of users.
Who Can Use AppExchange?
Anyone can browse and test drive AppExchange listings. Salesforce admins and users with the Download AppExchange Packages permission can install AppExchange apps.
To publish a listing on AppExchange, a user needs both Create AppExchange Packages and Upload AppExchange Packages permissions.
Final Words
Are you interested in testing some of the Advanced Communities app? Find us on AppExchange and explore our apps in full force! Besides, you can contact us any time – we will be happy to guide you through our products and services.
FAQ
1. What is AppExchange?
AppExchange is the biggest and leading Salesforce clouds marketplace. You can find there applications, services, and consultancy. So if you want to scale your business operations with Salesforce, AppExchange is the place where you will definitely find a solution that meets your needs.
2. What is AppExchange Used for?
AppExchange is used for partners who publish their Salesforce-based bolt-ons, products, and consultancies. Thus, Salesforce admins can find there solutions that satisfy their orgs’ demands.
