Difference between Professional
and Enterprise SF Licenses
Mikael B. Pettersson
Co-founder | CEO
Manufacturing, Sales and Service Cloud
+1 (786) 473-8816
mikael@eclouds.co
| Definition | Category | Professional | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Account Assignment Rules |  |
N/A | Create assignment rules to Accounts |
| Territory Management | |
N/A | Model Sales Territories to your Structure |
| Sales Teams (A.K.A Opportunity Teams) | |
N/A | EE offers the ability to set up Sales Teams assigned as Account owner |
| Commission Report | |
N/A | EE offfers 2-tiered commission reporting. |
| Opportunity Splits | |
N/A | Yes – Track effort of a Sales Team and divide commission |
| Collaborative Forecasting | |
Yes – See a complete view of Pipeline and Business | Yes – See a complete view of Pipeline and Business |
| Custom Opportunity Fields in Forecasting | |
N/A | Yes – Include custom fields from Opportunity in Forecasting |
| Definition | Category | Professional | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Custom Profiles | CONFIGURATION | 2 Custom Profiles | Up to 1500 Custom Profiles |
| Approval Process | DEVELOPMENT | N/A | Created automated processes for approving records |
| Process Builder | DEVELOPMENT | Max 5 Process Builders can be created | Standard Automated process, virtually unlimited Process Builders. |
| Lightning / Visual Flow | DEVELOPMENT | N/A | More Intricate automated process without the need to write code. |
| Record Types | CONFIGURATION | Limited to three (3) different Record Types per Object | Record Types for different sales processes, different page layouts and picklist values |
| Validation Rules | CONFIGURATION | 20 – Create rules to validate data input | 100 – Create rules to validate data input |
| Multiple Page Layouts | CONFIGURATION | Limited to two (2) different Page Layouts | |
| Roles & Permission Sets | CONFIGURATION | Limited to 2 Roles above Standard Roles | Upto 1000 Permission sets which allow for granular permissions to records |
| Ability to mass Grant Login Access to a System Administrator | CONFIGURATION | N/A | EE allows the Admin to log in “as other user”, hugely useful to ensure Page Layouts, Reports, Dashboards, List Views etc are appearing as intended. |
| Definition | Category | Professional | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| “Custom Apex code (unless in an AppExchange package) API (thus no ability to use the Data Loader)“ | DEVELOPMENT | N/A No custom code can be inserted so no triggers, no Apex code etc. | EE allows for full customization with almost unlimited Triggers, Apex Code, all Appexchange Apps etc. |
| Developer Sandbox | Yes – Test Environment with No real Data | Yes – Test Environment with No real Data | |
| Developer Pro Sandbox | DEVELOPMENT | Available for Purchase – Ability to host larger data for test | Available for Purchase – Ability to host larger data for test |
| Partial Sandbox | DEVELOPMENT | N/A | EE includes one partial sandbox, which is essentially equal to a full sandbox if there is limited data set of only a few thousand records. |
| Full Sandbox | DEVELOPMENT | N/A | Available for Purchase – Full Replica of real environment with all data. |
| API’s | DEVELOPMENT | Optional Purchase. No API’s and as a result many Appexchange products can not be used but or they have limited functionality. Also no connetion to external systems | EE offers the full API toolbox so integration with external system is easy. All Appexchange Apps are fully featured. |
| Force.com Sites | DEVELOPMENT | N/A |
| Definition | Category | Professional | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joined Reports | ANALYTICS | N/A | Join multiple reports for advanced analytics |
| Bucket Fields | ANALYTICS | N/A | EE offers bucket fields in Lightning |
| Cross Filters in Reports (e.g. Accounts without Opportunities) | ANALYTICS | N/A | Yes |
| Dynamic Dashboards | ANALYTICS | N/A | Yes, up to 5 Dashboards can be dynamic |
| Scheduled Reports | ANALYTICS | Yes – Schedule daily, weekly monthly delivery of reports directly to email | Yes – Schedule daily, weekly monthly delivery of reports directly to email |
| Scheduled Dashboards | ANALYTICS | N/A | Yes – Schedule daily, weekly monthly delivery of dashboards directly to email |
| Marketing | |||
| Mass Emails send in single blast | Marketing | 250 | 500 |
| Administration | |||
| Validation Rules | Administration | 20 per object | 100 per object |
| Custom Fields in Objects | Administration | 100 per object | 500 per object |
| Custom Fields in Activities | Administration | 20 | 100 |
| Custom Tabs | Administration | 10 | 25 |
| Custom Objects | Administration | 50 | 200 |
| Service | |||
| Service Cloud Console | Service | No (additional Cost) | Yes |
| Salesforce Knowledge | Service | No (additional Cost) | Yes |
| Salesforce Communities | Service | No (additional Cost) | Yes |