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description: Salesforce User Sync connects your Account Engagement and Salesforce users and lets you manage Account Engagement user access from Marketing Setup. User Sync transfers user management to Salesforce and Account Engagement user records become read-only. User Sync is the recommended method for managing Salesforce and Account Engagement users. However, if that’s not the right solution for you at this time, map Salesforce and Account Engagement users and enable Salesforce single sign-on to allow them to access Account Engagement.
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# Connect Account Engagement and Salesforce Users

Salesforce User Sync connects your Account Engagement and Salesforce users and lets you manage Account Engagement user access from Marketing Setup. User Sync transfers user management to Salesforce and Account Engagement user records become read-only. User Sync is the recommended method for managing Salesforce and Account Engagement users. However, if that’s not the right solution for you at this time, map Salesforce and Account Engagement users and enable Salesforce single sign-on to allow them to access Account Engagement.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <span>All Account Engagement Editions</span></td></tr></tbody></table>

- **[Manage Users with Salesforce User Sync](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.pardot_sf_connector_setup_user_sync_parent.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Salesforce User Sync is the simplest way to manage Account Engagement user access. This feature permanently transfers user management to Salesforce so that you can add or remove Account Engagement users from Salesforce Marketing Setup.
- **[Set Up Salesforce Single Sign-On for Account Engagement](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.pardot_sf_connector_setup_sso.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    If you don’t use Salesforce User Sync, manually enable Salesforce single sign-on (SSO) to allow users access to Account Engagement. SSO lets users log in to Account Engagement with their Salesforce credentials.

#### See Also

- [Map Salesforce and Account Engagement Usernames](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.pardot_sf_connector_setup_map_users.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "If you have existing Account Engagement users, map them to their user record in Salesforce before you proceed with Salesforce User Sync. If users aren’t mapped, the system ignores those users and they don’t sync. For business units without User Sync, map users and then enable Salesforce Single Sign-on (SSO). Salesforce credentials are required to access Account Engagement.")
- [Set Up Salesforce Single Sign-On for Account Engagement](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.pardot_sf_connector_setup_sso.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "If you don’t use Salesforce User Sync, manually enable Salesforce single sign-on (SSO) to allow users access to Account Engagement. SSO lets users log in to Account Engagement with their Salesforce credentials.")