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description: Salesforce Foundations equips you with essential sales, service, marketing, and commerce capabilities, over a CRM foundation that’s powered by Data Cloud. This suite is seamlessly built into your preexisting CRM, providing you with new capabilities and a 360-degree view of your customers—all at no extra cost.
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# Elevating Your CRM Experience with Foundational Features

Salesforce Foundations equips you with essential sales, service, marketing, and commerce capabilities, over a CRM foundation that’s powered by Data Cloud. This suite is seamlessly built into your preexisting CRM, providing you with new capabilities and a 360-degree view of your customers—all at no extra cost.

### 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: <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.base_editions.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Salesforce Foundations is included in supported editions of select Salesforce Clouds. This topic provides information about the editions and Clouds that support Foundations.">View supported editions.</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

Imagine you have a subscription to a streaming service that allows you to watch movies. It's a fantastic feature for movie nights, but it specializes only in movies. Now imagine the same service announces you can also watch TV shows, live sports, and documentaries. Plus, you get a full view of your engagement and access an improved user experience—all included in your existing subscription. That’s the benefit of using Salesforce Foundations.

You have full control over when and what you enable for your Salesforce org. Your preexisting customizations aren't impacted by enabling Salesforce Foundations.

![Salesforce Starter and Pro Suite](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-xcloud-base-264-0-0-production-enus/cd97a2ff-8dc4-4a9d-a8f3-2c94cb4fdc33/base/images/main-banner-lm-salesforce-foundations.png)

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              <span style="vertical-align:text-bottom;display:inline-block;"><img style="margin-bottom:0;" src="https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-xcloud-base-264-0-0-production-enus/cd97a2ff-8dc4-4a9d-a8f3-2c94cb4fdc33/resources-global/_corporate/images/learning_maps/lm_start.png" alt="Start icon"></span>
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              <strong>Get Started</strong>
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            <p><em>Trailhead</em>: <a href="https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/salesforce-foundations-quick-look" target="_blank">Salesforce Foundations Quick
                Look</a></p>
            <p style="margin-bottom:0;"><em>Trailhead Learning Path</em>: <a href="https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/trails/grow-your-business-with-salesforce-foundations" target="_blank">Grow Your Business with Salesforce
                Foundations</a></p>
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              <strong>Explore the Basics</strong>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.base_significance.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Salesforce Foundations provides a 360-degree view of your customer relationships across sales, service, marketing, and commerce through integrated applications and unified data. It also boosts productivity with streamlined, visually friendly user interface improvements, that you can turn on or off per your requirements.">What Makes Salesforce Foundations Special</a>
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            <p>
              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.base_editions.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Salesforce Foundations is included in supported editions of select Salesforce Clouds. This topic provides information about the editions and Clouds that support Foundations.">Supported Editions for Salesforce Foundations</a>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.base_features.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Explore the features that come with Salesforce Foundations.">Included Features in Salesforce Foundations</a>
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              <strong>Set Up</strong>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.base_turn_on_features.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="The combination of your Salesforce product, product edition, and org status determines what Salesforce Foundations features you can turn on to enhance your Salesforce experience.">Knowing
                Which Salesforce Foundations Features You Can Turn On</a>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.base_considerations.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Before deploying Salesforce Foundations, make sure you review key factors that can affect your implementation.">Considerations for Salesforce Foundations</a>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.base_setup.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="After you’ve reviewed the considerations and determined which foundational features to add, you’re ready to set up the suite experience. Turn on user interface and navigation settings, assign permissions to users, and set up features across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud, and Data Cloud.">Set Up Salesforce
                Foundations</a>
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