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Sales Territories Concepts

Sales Territories Concepts

Determine whether planning and managing territories in Salesforce can help your teams optimize account coverage and align with leadership goals.

Required Editions

Available in: Salesforce Classic for some features and Lightning Experience for all features
Available in: Performance and Developer Editions and in Enterprise and Unlimited Editions with Sales
  • Planning and Managing Territories
    Establish territory models that give your sales teams the best coverage. Design models on a map by using Territory Planning, available as an add-on product. Then put your models into action by using Sales Territories. Continuous model optimizations help your company make the most of staffing, leadership, and economic changes.
  • Territory Type
    Territory types help you organize your territories by key characteristics important to your company. Every territory you create has a territory type. Territory types are used for organizing and creating territories only. They don’t appear on territory model hierarchies.
  • Territory Type Priority
    Specifying and managing territory type priority information helps you choose the appropriate territory type for territories you create or edit. You create your own priority scheme. For example, 001 can indicate that a territory type is the highest priority or the lowest. Make sure that your scheme can scale as you add more territory types.
  • Territory
    Territories organize groups of accounts, leads, and the Salesforce users who work with them. Territories are created based on territory types.
  • Territory Model
    A territory model represents a complete territory management system for your company. Modeling lets you create and preview multiple territory structures and different account, lead, and user assignments before you activate the model that works best.
  • Territory Hierarchy
    The territory hierarchy shows a model’s territory structure and serves as its main interaction point. Start from the hierarchy to create, edit, and delete territories; run assignment rules for territories, and navigate to territory detail pages for more information. From the hierarchy, you can also assign territories to opportunities, run assignment rules at the model level, and activate or archive the model. The forecasts hierarchy for territory forecasts is based on your territory hierarchy in the active territory model.
  • Territory Model State
    Territory model state indicates whether a territory is in the planning stage, in active use, or archived. You can have only one active territory model at a time. But you can create and maintain multiple models in planning or archived state to use for extra modeling or reference. Some states reflect a territory model’s lifecycle and others indicate errors in processing when states are changed.
  • How Do Permissions for Territories Affect Feature and Data Access?
    Anticipate how permissions for Sales Territories affect administration and provide access to records and data.
  • Territory Management 2.0 Data Model
    Learn about the objects and relationships that represent Sales Territories.
 
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