Sometimes the best things in life really are free — even solutions for your toughest business challenges. Enter the AppExchange, home to hundreds of vetted, secure, and completely free apps for every department and every industry. Impress your coworkers, customers, and even your boss with apps that will save time and budget, making productivity skyrocket.
During Dreamforce ’15, the AppExchange asked two Salesforce customers with extensive AppExchange experience to share their favorite free apps. Read on to see what Maggie Jolitz of Cox Automotive and Karen McBride of Accelerize 360 recommended.
And to explore 80+ more app recommendations, great advice, and customer success stories, check out our free e-book, 10 Reasons to Use AppExchange Apps Right Now.
1. Clone This User: Clone all of a specific user’s permissions, quickly and easily, with the click of a button.
2. Octopus: Document all the items in your Salesforce instance and download it as a PDF or Word file for future reference.
3. SideCalendar: Boost user productivity by making their calendar viewable on the sidebar of every page, allowing them to quickly add tasks and events.4. S-Docs: Create professional documents from templates, beyond Salesforce’s out-of-box functionality.
5. Mass Update Tasks: Improve productivity and give visibility to stuck and stale deals. Mass update tasks, due dates, and statuses.
The remaining apps listed here are Salesforce Labs apps. Created by Salesforce developers, these apps are 100% free, unmanaged packages. They’re completely customizable, easy to install, super useful, and some of the most-installed apps on the AppExchange.
6. Track Opportunity Stage on Activities: Find out which deals are moving forward and which activities are most effective in keeping them moving.
7. Graphics Pack: Make Salesforce more engaging with hundreds of images and icons that can be used in applications for tabs, image formulas, and Visualforce.
8. Action Plans Put best practices into reusable task templates and encourage reusability, save time, and improve productivity.
9. Opportunity Accountability Dashboard: Stay on top of deals that might be a problem and identify opportunities that are stuck or missing valuable information.
10. Case History: Get a chronological view of case statuses, activities, comments, and status changes.
For more details on all the AppExchange Dreamforce sessions and to see a full list of customers’ favorite apps, check out our e-book, 10 Reasons to Use AppExchange Apps Right Now.