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description: The Sales Channel object represents an order source, such as a web storefront, physical store, marketplace, or mobile app. If you use Salesforce B2C Commerce, we recommend creating a sales channel record for each site in your B2C Commerce implementation.
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# Sales Channel Fields

The Sales Channel object represents an order source, such as a web storefront, physical store, marketplace, or mobile app. If you use Salesforce B2C Commerce, we recommend creating a sales channel record for each site in your B2C Commerce implementation.

### Required Editions

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Note Depending on your page layout and field-level security settings, some fields aren’t visible or editable.

This table lists the fields on the Sales Channel object.

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            <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d27611e66">Field Label</th>
            <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d27611e69">Description</th>
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            <td data-label="Field Label" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d27611e66 ">Description</td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d27611e69 ">The description of the sales channel. </td>

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            <td data-label="Field Label" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d27611e66 ">External Channel Number</td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d27611e69 ">The external system identifier for the sales channel.</td>

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            <td data-label="Field Label" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d27611e66 ">Sales Channel Name</td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d27611e69 ">The name of the sales channel.</td>

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            <td data-label="Field Label" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d27611e66 ">Type</td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d27611e69 ">
              <p>The type of the sales channel. Each type corresponds to one type category. </p>
              <p>Possible
                values are:</p>
              <ul>
                <li>B2B</li>
                <li>B2C</li>
                <li>Other</li>
              </ul>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">You can customize the type values to represent your business processes, but the type
                category values are fixed because some order processing is based on those
                values.</p>
            </td>

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#### See Also

- [Order Management Objects and Fields](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=commerce.om_order_management_objects_and_fields.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Learn about the standard objects and fields available for reporting in Order Management.")