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description: Depending on the size of your organization or your new hire onboarding process, you may choose to add users one at a time. The maximum number of users you can add is determined by your Salesforce edition.
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# Add a Single User

Depending on the size of your organization or your new hire onboarding process, you may choose to add users one at a time. The maximum number of users you can add is determined by your Salesforce edition.

### 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: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Contact Manager</strong>, <strong>Essentials</strong>, <strong>Group</strong>, <strong>Professional</strong>, <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, <strong>Developer</strong>, and <strong>Database.com</strong> Editions</td></tr></tbody></table>

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69172e88 ">To create users:</td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69172e88 ">Manage Internal Users</td>

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Note You create Experience Cloud partner and customer users from contacts. For more information, see [Create Experience Cloud Site Users](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.networks_create_external_users.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Create site users to access Experience Cloud sites.").

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Tip Setup with Agentforce can help you manage users more efficiently. For more information, see [Setup with Agentforce](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.setup_agentforce_overview.htm&language=en_US) and [User Management in Setup with Agentforce](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.setup_agentforce_user_management.htm&language=en_US).

1. Read the guidelines for adding users.
2. From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Users , and then select **Users**.
3. Click **New User**.
4. Enter the user’s name and email address and a unique username in the form of a email address. By default, the username is the same as the email address.
    
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    Important Your username must be unique across all Salesforce orgs, including trial and Sandbox orgs. The username must be in the format of an email address, for example, jane@salesforce.com. The email used in your username need not function or match the email address used for the account. You can have the same email address associated with your account across multiple orgs. For example, create unique usernames like jane@company.sandbox and jane@trialorg.company.com, for different accounts that are associated with the same email address. Keep in mind that Salesforce Customer Support can’t change usernames or deactivate users from an org. If you get a Duplicate Username error, check if the username is already in use in your production, trial, or Sandbox orgs. Deactivate or change the username for the user record, then create your account with your desired username in your production org. If you’re unable to change or deactivate a username, contact your Salesforce admin for help. If you’re unable to locate the org where the username is already in use, try a different username to create your account.
5. In Professional, Enterprise, Unlimited, Performance, and Developer Editions, select a Role.
6. Select a User License. Only licenses with remaining seats are displayed. The user license determines which profiles are available for the user.
7. Select a profile, which specifies the user’s minimum permissions and access settings.
8. If your organization has Approvals enabled, you can set the user’s approver settings, such as delegated approver, manager, and preference for receiving approval request emails.
9. Check Generate new password and notify user immediately to have the user’s login name and a temporary password emailed to the new user.

For new Chatter Only users, an administrator must expose the tabs for accounts, contacts, dashboards, and reports. By default, these tabs are hidden for Chatter Only users. And, the admin must turn on Salesforce CRM Content, Ideas, and Answers if they want their Chatter Only users to have access to them. Professional Edition organizations must have Profiles enabled to perform these tasks. For more information, contact Salesforce Customer Support.

#### See Also

- [Guidelines for Adding Users](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.users_adding_guidelines.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Understand important options for adding users. Learn what to communicate to users about passwords and logging in.")
- [Add Multiple Users](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.users_adding_multiple.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "You can quickly add up to 10 users at a time to your organization. Your Salesforce edition determines the maximum number of users that you can add.")
- [Edit Users](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.editing_users.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "To change a user's details—such as username, profile, role, or contact information—edit the user account.")
- [User Fields](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.user_fields.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "The fields that comprise the Personal Information and other personal settings pages describe a user.")
- [Licenses Overview](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.users_licenses_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "To enable specific Salesforce functionality for your users, you must choose one user license for each user. To enable more functionality, you can assign permission set licenses and feature licenses to your users or purchase usage-based entitlements for your organization.")
- [View a User’s Access Summary](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.users_access_summary.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "To make managing permissions and troubleshooting access easier, in the User Access Summary, you can see a consolidated view of a user’s key details and assigned permissions and tabs. You can also manage the user’s assigned permission sets, permission set groups, public groups, and queues.")