--- schema_version: "1" id: fb05b20bb2e2f70ead5e3c944a26f6945ca9f8cc81ae3dd98d829d9798eab6a9 title: Experience Cloud collection: admin version: current locale: en-us portal_url: https://docs.salesforce.com/admin/current/en-us/experience/264-0-0/networks_overview.md canonical_url: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.networks_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 source_site: help.salesforce.com content_type: documentation content_hash: cacaf1ffc7cb892a03ddcca40cd741450c2312f17d96a524a25dc42be5a9aa2f description: Salesforce Experience Cloud lets you create branded digital experiences to share information and collaborate with people who are key to your business processes, such as customers, partners, or employees. Whether you call it a portal, help forum, support community, or something else, an Experience Cloud site is a great place to connect with the important folks in your life. products: - Experiences release: "264" --- # Experience Cloud Salesforce Experience Cloud lets you create branded digital experiences to share information and collaborate with people who are key to your business processes, such as customers, partners, or employees. Whether you call it a portal, help forum, support community, or something else, an Experience Cloud site is a great place to connect with the important folks in your life. ### Required Editions
Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience
Available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions
You can create multiple sites within your organization for different purposes and transition seamlessly between them. For example, you can use Experience Cloud sites to: - Drive more sales by connecting your employees with your distributors, resellers, and suppliers - Deliver world-class service by giving your customers one place to get answers - Promote an upcoming event and manage social listening, content, engagement, and workflows all in one place Learn more about the versatile ways that you can use Experience Cloud in the video. - **[Understand the Basics of Experience Cloud](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.exp_cloud_basics.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Discover how Experience Cloud helps you create digital experiences and branded spaces for your employees, customers, and partners. You can build sites, portals, and forums with the level of customization that you want using little or no code. Or, if you’re comfortable using code, you can build them programmatically. - **[Plan and Prepare for Your Experience Cloud Implementation](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.exp_cloud_plan.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Experience Cloud comprises flexible, powerful features that you can combine in multiple ways to deliver the digital experience you need, whether it’s a portal, help center, or mobile app. And although it can be tempting to dive right into building, we recommend taking time to think about the combination of features you need to deliver a productive, successful site. We can’t cover every planning aspect, but these topics describe some key areas to consider, research, and incorporate as you develop your overall plan. - **[Set Up and Configure Your Org for Experience Cloud Sites](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.networks_setup_maintain_communities.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Before setting up your first Experience Cloud site, complete a few tasks in Salesforce Setup to prepare your org for customer- and partner-facing sites. From enabling digital experiences to selecting the correct org settings, we’ve got you covered! The steps you take when preparing your org for Experience Cloud sites are the same you take when setting up sites for Commerce Cloud, Financial Services Cloud, Health Cloud, and Work.com. - **[Manage Users and Data Access](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.exp_cloud_users_access.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** One of the most important administrative tasks is setting up and maintaining your users. Salesforce provides a variety of features and tools that help you ensure that your Experience Cloud partner, customer, and guest users have the right access to data. - **[Build and Customize Your Experience Cloud Site](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.exp_cloud_build.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Choose from several preconfigured templates to create your site. Then customize the site to suit your needs and match your brand. - **[Agentforce for Experience Builder (Beta) Is Discontinued](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.exp_cloud_agent_exp_builder.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** The Experience Builder Agent, previously announced as a beta feature for enhanced LWR sites, is discontinued as of Winter ’27. If you created an Experience Builder Agent during the beta, you can no longer use it. The Agentforce panel is no longer available in Experience Builder. - **[Create Use-Case Driven Sites](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.exp_cloud_use_cases.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Whether you're creating a site for self-service or one for partner vendors, Experience Cloud has the solution to fit your needs. - **[Secure Your Experience Cloud Site](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.networks_security.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** You can help keep your Experience Cloud site more secure by enabling clickjack protection, authenticating users, encrypting data, and protecting against malicious resources and vulnerabilities in components using CSP and Lightning Locker. These options allow you to maintain the security of your site while still using the external sources you need. In addition, you can use various settings and permissions to protect your data and your customers’ data, and publicly share the site with guest users. - **[Deploy an Experience Cloud Site from Sandbox to Production](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.networks_migrate_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** We recommend creating, customizing, and testing your Experience Cloud site in a test environment, such as a sandbox, before deploying it to your production org. When testing is complete, you can use change sets or Metadata API to migrate your site from one org to another. Deciding whether to use change sets or MD API depends on several factors. Some things to consider are the complexity of the changes that you’re migrating, your level of comfort with developer tools, and the application lifecycle management (ALM) model that you’re using. - **[Manage Your Experience Cloud Site](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.networks_community_management_intro.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Administer, manage, and moderate your Experience Cloud site from Experience Workspaces. - **[Use Reporting in Experience Cloud Sites](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.networks_reporting_intro.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Use reporting to see short-term and long-term trends in various areas of your Experience Cloud site. The preconfigured AppExchange package makes reporting a snap for community managers. You can also give the power of reporting to your members. - **[Experience Cloud Considerations](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.exp_cloud_considerations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Keep the following considerations in mind when creating sites with Experience Cloud.