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Community Cloud

bySalesforce
in Social Customer Service Applications
4.3

Overview

Product Information on Community Cloud

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Community Cloud?

Community Cloud is a software developed by Salesforce that enables organizations to create branded online spaces for engaging with customers, partners, or employees. The software offers capabilities for sharing information, facilitating discussions, and collaborating on projects. Community Cloud features customizable templates, integration with business processes, and access controls to ensure relevant content reaches the intended audience. The software supports knowledge sharing, case management, and access to resources within a secure environment. Community Cloud aims to address business requirements for improving stakeholder communication, streamlining support, and enhancing collaboration across various organizational groups.

Community Cloud Pricing

Community Cloud software uses a subscription-based pricing model, with costs determined by the number of users and specific features selected. Pricing tiers are offered to accommodate different levels of access and functionality, allowing organizations to choose plans based on usage requirements and intended audience size.

Overall experience with Community Cloud

Salesforce Administrator
<50M USD, Retail
FAVORABLE

“Excellent tool for sharing limited content with end-users who don't need full access. ”

5.0
Dec 29, 2018
Community cloud has been a great product for exposing specific elements of our org to limited-license users within our company.
Business Systems Analyst
<50M USD, Healthcare and Biotech
CRITICAL

“Great implementation of SF Community”

3.0
Feb 2, 2018
We work well with WMP and SF. We learned from our previous mistakes and our new SF org Community is definitely a step in the right direction.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 6th March 2025

Salesforce is a company that integrates artificial intelligence with customer relationship management and data to create solutions for customer-related concerns. Salesforce's primary business problem is to enhance the interaction between businesses and their customers by leveraging technology.

Company Details

Updated 2nd November 2023
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1999
Head office location
San Francisco, United States
Number of employees
10001+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
http://www.salesforce.com

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Performance of Community Cloud Across Market Features

Community Cloud Likes & Dislikes

Like

I most like the ability to share specific elements/objects from our Salesforce instance with a specific set of community users.

Like

Very flexible, allows us to customize and build out product according to business requirements

Like

I enjoyed how easy it was to create themes to tailer my message to the current user.

Dislike

There is a bit of a learning curve when setting up communities and granting access to profiles/permission sets.

Dislike

can be expensive.

Dislike

Although the system is highly configurable, you have to either have the skills to create Lightning Components or purchase them from the app exchange, so with our low budget I found a lot of functionality that I wanted to introduce I could not because I lacked knowledge to build my own Lightning components.

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Community Cloud Reviews and Ratings

4.3

(6 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
50%
4 Star
17%
3 Star
33%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.2

Integration & Deployment

4.3

Service & Support

4.4

Product Capabilities

4.2

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  • Salesforce Administrator
    <50M USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    Excellent tool for sharing limited content with end-users who don't need full access.

    5.0
    Dec 29, 2018
    Community cloud has been a great product for exposing specific elements of our org to limited-license users within our company.
  • Salesforce Business Analyst
    50M-1B USD
    Construction
    Review Source

    Self-Implementation was a snap!

    5.0
    Dec 13, 2018
    AE was very helpful in directing me to online and in person training to self implement Community Cloud.
  • Manager
    <50M USD
    Education
    Review Source

    Helping Head

    4.0
    Dec 29, 2018
    This is the platform where you get all the solutions of relateted apex visualforce triggers integration and all other feathers
  • Senior Salesforce Admin
    <50M USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Powerful customer Engagement Platform

    5.0
    Jun 30, 2018
    Salesforce community cloud provides a great collaboration tool in connecting customers and even partners. You have the ability to provide customers with 24/7 engagement tool. This process allowed our business to grow and gain more customer loyalty. In addition to this, we noticed how much the community plays a big role in raising higher sales conversions, faster resolution time in addition to faster time to market and less time in finding experts. You will be able to provide customers with a one-stop shop where customers can access their cases, view knowledge articles, engage in community discussions, submit their ideas to empower our products and engage with other customers. The success of the customer community cloud gave us an idea to create our own employee community and this has been an awesome experience for the employees.
  • Sr. Marketing Manager
    <50M USD
    Miscellaneous
    Review Source

    Needs better integration with Salesforce marketing features

    3.0
    Feb 26, 2018
    We were promised features that require customization -- not out of the box or easy to implement. It's made integrating across Salesforce products a real challenge for marketing purposes (ex: Community to Pardot).
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