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description: Align sales teams with leadership targets using Legacy Sales Planning as your single source of truth. Give stakeholders a workspace for creating, collaborating on, and activating sales plans that give your company a competitive advantage.
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# What’s Legacy Sales Planning?

Align sales teams with leadership targets using Legacy Sales Planning as your single source of truth. Give stakeholders a workspace for creating, collaborating on, and activating sales plans that give your company a competitive advantage.

### 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 (not available in all orgs) and Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available for an additional cost in: <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions with Sales Planning in English only, and only if you have Web Services API enabled</td></tr></tbody></table>

![Important](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-sales-sales_performance_management-264-0-0-production-enus/b1f2feb4-26b8-444f-97f7-be2349869d93/images/icon_important.png)

Important

Feature is scheduled for retirement as of Summer'26. See [Sales Planning version 1 Retirement](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=005224374&type=1&language=en_US)

## Challenges of Typical Sales Planning Efforts

Creating and maintaining sales plans presents lots of challenges, especially when you’re planning in multiple systems. Here’s how.

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            <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d98686e76">The Problem</th>
            <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d98686e78">Challenges That Come with It</th>
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            <td data-label="The Problem" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d98686e76 ">Siloed efforts</td>
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              <ul>
                <li>Requires specialists for each system involved in your planning efforts</li>
                <li>Disparate teams, sources, and applications</li>
                <li>Lack of stakeholder input</li>
                <li>Permissions management among all systems</li>
              </ul>
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            <td data-label="The Problem" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d98686e76 ">Inefficient</td>
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              <ul>
                <li>Complicated implementations</li>
                <li>Unknown risks whenever adjusting sales plans</li>
                <li>Errors during import and export processes</li>
                <li>A missing single source of truth</li>
              </ul>
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            <td data-label="The Problem" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d98686e76 ">Inaccurate and expensive </td>
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              <ul>
                <li>Difficulties planning for the long term</li>
                <li>Immeasurable performance that prevents you from identifying potential improvements</li>
                <li>Inability to respond quickly to changing market conditions</li>
              </ul>
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## How Sales Planning from Salesforce Helps

Meet and exceed your targets using Sales Planning.

![Sales Planning home page](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-sales-sales_performance_management-264-0-0-production-enus/b1f2feb4-26b8-444f-97f7-be2349869d93/sales_performance_management/images/sales_planning.png)

Here’s how.

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            <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d98686e134">Sales Planning Solution</th>
            <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d98686e136">Benefits That Come with Sales Planning</th>
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            <td data-label="Sales Planning Solution" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d98686e134 ">Centralization of plans and cost reductions</td>
            <td data-label="Benefits That Come with Sales Planning" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d98686e136 ">
              <ul>
                <li>Requires fewer specialists for a centralized system</li>
                <li>Tracked updates to and performance of sales plans</li>
              </ul>
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            <td data-label="Sales Planning Solution" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d98686e134 ">Flexibility</td>
            <td data-label="Benefits That Come with Sales Planning" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d98686e136 ">
              <ul>
                <li>Support for multiple business units with differing complexities</li>
                <li>Ability to tailor top-down and bottom-up methodologies to your planning processes</li>
                <li>Templates that start you off quickly</li>
                <li>Data export to and data import from CSV files</li>
              </ul>
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            <td data-label="Sales Planning Solution" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d98686e134 ">Continuous planning</td>
            <td data-label="Benefits That Come with Sales Planning" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d98686e136 ">
              <ul>
                <li>Access to historical and forecast data that influences iterative planning
                  decisions</li>
                <li>Deployment of sales plans</li>
              </ul>
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