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Understanding Salesforce Percentage Fields in Flows

Publish Date: May 29, 2025
Description

A percent is stored as a number divided by 100, meaning that 100% is represented as 1; 90% as 0.9, and so on. When determining whether to use the whole value, or the decimal value in Salesforce Flows, the following behavior can be expected.

Resolution

Results of Percentage Fields in Flows:

When ...The value...Example
Pass a numerical value into an sObject variable’s percent fieldDoesn’t change100 remains 100. When saving this value to a new or existing record, the percent value is 100%.
Pass the value of one sObject variable’s percent field into the percent field of another sObject variableDoesn’t change100 remains 100. When saving this value to a new or existing record, the percent value is 100%.
Reference an sObject variable’s percent field into a formulaDivides by 100100 becomes 1. When saving this value to a new or existing record, the percent value is 1% .

Additional Resources

Object Reference - Field Types

Knowledge Article Number

000380436

 
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