{"id":20506,"date":"2026-08-23T10:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/?p=20506"},"modified":"2026-08-23T10:24:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:24:58","slug":"salesforce-lightning-platform-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/salesforce-lightning-platform-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce Lightning Platform: What It Is and What It Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Key Takeaways<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> :\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Salesforce Platform is the current name for what was previously Force.com and Lightning Platform, so older documentation may refer to the same product under different names.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Platform Starter and Platform Plus provide Salesforce capabilities without requiring full Sales or Service Cloud licences, making them useful for internal applications that do not need core CRM objects.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The custom object limit is contractual rather than technical, so exceeding the Platform Starter allocation through permissions can create a licensing issue even when the platform technically allows it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Salesforce Platform trades some flexibility for built-in security, APIs, automation, mobile, reporting and governance, while Heroku or another platform may make more sense for compute-heavy or high-traffic applications.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><b>Quick Answer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Force.com \u2192 Lightning Platform \u2192 Salesforce Platform. Same product. Platform Starter costs around $25 per user per month with a limit of 10 custom objects; Platform Plus around $100 with 110. A full Sales or Service Cloud licence is $150\u2013180. For internal users who never touch Leads, Opportunities or Cases, that gap is the whole point, and the custom object limit is contractual, not technical, which catches people out.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019ve been confused about what \u201cLightning Platform\u201d means, the answer is that Salesforce has renamed it twice and the names overlap with two unrelated products.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Underneath the branding, it\u2019s a straightforward idea: the platform beneath the CRM apps. The data model, security, automation, APIs and UI framework that Sales Cloud and Service Cloud are themselves built on, which you can use to build applications that have nothing to do with CRM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And there\u2019s a licence for exactly that, at roughly a sixth of the price of a full CRM seat.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Same Product, Three Names<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20514\" src=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ChatGPT-Image-Aug-23-2026-03_08_35-PM.webp\" alt=\"Timeline showing Force.com from 2007 to 2018, Lightning Platform from 2018 to 2024 and Salesforce Platform from 2024 onwards\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ChatGPT-Image-Aug-23-2026-03_08_35-PM.webp 1536w, https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ChatGPT-Image-Aug-23-2026-03_08_35-PM-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ChatGPT-Image-Aug-23-2026-03_08_35-PM-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ChatGPT-Image-Aug-23-2026-03_08_35-PM-640x427.webp 640w, https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ChatGPT-Image-Aug-23-2026-03_08_35-PM-400x267.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Timeline showing Force.com from 2007 to 2018, Lightning Platform from 2018 to 2024 and Salesforce Platform from 2024 onwards<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Force.com:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Was the original brand, and it\u2019s still how most people search for it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Lightning Platform: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arrived alongside the Lightning Experience UI rebrand, which is where the confusion started, because it made a platform sound like an interface.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Salesforce Platform:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Is the current name. The licences are now Platform Starter (formerly Lightning Platform) and Platform Plus (formerly Lightning Platform Plus).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If a vendor quotes you \u201cLightning Platform Starter,\u201d they mean Platform Starter. Same licence, older name. Plenty of documentation, blog posts and even sales collateral still use the previous names.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Three Different \u201cLightning\u201d Things<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Worth separating before going further, because these get used interchangeably and they\u2019re unrelated:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Lightning Platform<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The platform. Data model, security, APIs, automation. What this article is about.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Lightning Experience<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The user interface that replaced Salesforce Classic. See <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/salesforce-lightning-vs-classic-differences\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lightning Experience vs Classic<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Lightning Web Components<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The framework developers use to build custom UI. See the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/lightning-web-components-complete-guide\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LWC guide<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can use the Platform without writing a single Lightning Web Component, and you can run Lightning Experience without caring about the platform beneath it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lightning Experience is the user interface that replaced Salesforce Classic. For a deeper comparison of the two interfaces, see <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/salesforce-lightning-vs-classic-differences\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Salesforce Lightning vs Classic<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What You Actually Get<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The platform is what remains when you strip out Sales Cloud and Service Cloud\u2019s specific objects and features:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>A Data Model:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Custom objects, fields, relationships, record types, validation rules. See <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Salesforce data model<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>A Security Model.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Profiles, permission sets, sharing rules, field-level security and record-level access &#8211; all of it enforced by the runtime rather than by your code.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Automation:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Flow, approval processes and Apex when you need it. See <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/the-ultimate-guide-to-salesforce-flow\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Salesforce Flow<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/apex-programming-guide\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apex guide<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>APIs:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> REST, SOAP, Bulk, Streaming, Pub\/Sub &#8211; the same ones the CRM apps use.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>A UI Framework:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Lightning App Builder for declarative pages, Lightning Web Components for custom ones.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>And the Parts Nobody Builds Themselves If They Can Help It:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Authentication and SSO, audit trail, a mobile app, reporting and dashboards, a sandbox model and a release process. Inheriting these is the actual argument for building on the platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The platform provides a structured <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Salesforce data model<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> covering custom objects, fields, relationships, record types and validation rules, giving custom applications the foundation they need without building a database layer from scratch.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Platform Licences and Real Cost<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20515\" src=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ChatGPT-Image-Aug-23-2026-03_11_48-PM.webp\" alt=\"Comparison of Platform Starter at 25 dollars, Platform Plus at 100 dollars, and full Sales or Service Cloud at 150 to 180 dollars per user per month\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ChatGPT-Image-Aug-23-2026-03_11_48-PM.webp 1536w, https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ChatGPT-Image-Aug-23-2026-03_11_48-PM-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ChatGPT-Image-Aug-23-2026-03_11_48-PM-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ChatGPT-Image-Aug-23-2026-03_11_48-PM-640x427.webp 640w, https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ChatGPT-Image-Aug-23-2026-03_11_48-PM-400x267.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Comparison of Platform Starter at 25 dollars, Platform Plus at 100 dollars, and full Sales or Service Cloud at 150 to 180 dollars per user per month<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Platform Starter:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Gives access to 10 custom objects, 200 API calls per user per day, Lightning App Builder, AppExchange, Flow and Apex, plus read-only access to Accounts and Contacts. No Leads, Opportunities, Cases or Campaigns.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Platform Plus:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Raises the custom object limit to 110 and adds record-level sharing &#8211; the right choice for genuinely complex data models.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>The Saving Is Substantial At Scale:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Two hundred warehouse or operations staff on Platform Starter rather than Sales Cloud saves roughly $336,000 a year at list price. That\u2019s the case people miss: they buy full CRM licences for users who will never open an Opportunity.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>The custom object limit catches people out<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><b>It\u2019s\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><strong>a Contractual Limit, Not a Technical One:<\/strong> Nothing in the software stops you from\u00a0<\/span>assigning a Platform Starter user access to more than 10 custom objects through permission sets. But doing so breaches your agreement and Salesforce can charge for past usage on discovering it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>This\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><strong>surfaces during licence audits,<\/strong> usually<\/span>\u00a0years after someone made a reasonable-looking configuration change. Track custom object assignment against licence type deliberately rather than discovering it retrospectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Related: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">how to reduce Salesforce licence costs<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"background: #EEF2FE; border: 1px solid #DBE2FB; border-radius: 14px; padding: 28px 32px; margin: 38px 0;\">\n<h4 style=\"color: #1b3fae; font-size: 22px; line-height: 1.3; font-weight: bold; margin: 0 0 10px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Build More With the Salesforce Platform<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"color: #4b5563; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0 0 22px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get expert help assessing your platform requirements, designing custom applications and choosing the right Salesforce architecture for your team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"display: inline-block; background: #2563EB; color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 600; padding: 13px 26px; border-radius: 8px;\" href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/salesforce-development-services\">Salesforce Development Services<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><b>What People Build on It<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Applications with no CRM component at all:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Internal operations tools, asset tracking, facilities requests, equipment bookings<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Compliance and audit systems where the built-in audit trail and sharing model do the heavy lifting<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Field inspection apps that use the mobile app rather than requiring a custom build<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grant and application management for public sector and nonprofit<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Employee-facing portals for HR requests, IT tickets, and onboarding can also benefit from custom interfaces when the standard components aren&#8217;t enough. Lightning Web Components provide the framework for those custom experiences, with the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/lightning-web-components-complete-guide\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LWC guide<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> covering the development approach in more detail.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vendor and supplier management where suppliers aren\u2019t customers<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are the kinds of applications where Salesforce Development Services can help teams turn the platform\u2019s built-in data, security, automation and mobile capabilities into purpose-built business applications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The Pattern:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Anything needing a data model, a security model, workflow, reporting and mobile access &#8211; where building all of that from scratch would cost more than the licences.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Platform, Heroku or Somewhere Else?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20516\" src=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ChatGPT-Image-Aug-23-2026-03_12_58-PM.webp\" alt=\"Decision table showing when to build on the Salesforce Platform, when to use Heroku, and when to build elsewhere\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ChatGPT-Image-Aug-23-2026-03_12_58-PM.webp 1536w, https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ChatGPT-Image-Aug-23-2026-03_12_58-PM-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ChatGPT-Image-Aug-23-2026-03_12_58-PM-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ChatGPT-Image-Aug-23-2026-03_12_58-PM-640x427.webp 640w, https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ChatGPT-Image-Aug-23-2026-03_12_58-PM-400x267.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Decision table showing when to build on the Salesforce Platform, when to use Heroku, and when to build elsewhere<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Governor limits are the trade-off.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> You accept per-transaction caps on queries, DML, CPU time, and heap in exchange for not building authentication, sharing, audit, and a mobile app yourself. For most internal business applications that\u2019s an obvious trade. For compute-heavy or high-traffic public-facing work it isn\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Heroku is the Salesforce-owned escape hatch<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; a full PaaS with no governor limits, any language, and no per-user licence for anonymous visitors. It integrates back to Salesforce through Heroku Connect and AppLink. See <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/how-to-integrate-salesforce-with-heroku\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heroku for Salesforce<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>And sometimes the answer is neither.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> If an application has genuinely nothing to do with your Salesforce data, paying platform licence prices for it is hard to justify.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"background: #EEF2FE; border: 1px solid #DBE2FB; border-radius: 14px; padding: 28px 32px; margin: 38px 0;\">\n<h4 style=\"color: #1b3fae; font-size: 22px; line-height: 1.3; font-weight: bold; margin: 0 0 10px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Need Developers for Your Salesforce Platform?<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"color: #4b5563; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0 0 22px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bring experienced Salesforce developers into your team to build custom applications, integrations, automation and scalable platform solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"display: inline-block; background: #2563EB; color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 600; padding: 13px 26px; border-radius: 8px;\" href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/hire-salesforce-developers\">Hire Salesforce Developers \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/salesforce-governor-limits\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">governor limits<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00b7 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/custom-salesforce-development-benefits\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">custom Salesforce development<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><b>Where to Go Next<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the interface that runs on top of it, see <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/salesforce-lightning-vs-classic-differences\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lightning Experience vs Classic<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For building custom UI, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/lightning-web-components-complete-guide\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lightning Web Components<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/apex-programming-guide\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apex programming guide<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the constraints you accept in exchange for the platform, see <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/salesforce-governor-limits\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">governor limits<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the escape hatch, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/how-to-integrate-salesforce-with-heroku\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heroku for Salesforce<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For licence cost more broadly, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">how to reduce Salesforce costs<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Salesforce customization cost<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/salesforce-development-guide\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">complete Salesforce development guide<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the hub.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Worth Checking Before Your Next Renewal<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most orgs we audit are paying full CRM licence prices for at least some users who never open a Lead, an Opportunity or a Case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s usually not carelessness &#8211; it\u2019s that nobody has revisited licence allocation since the original implementation and the Platform licence option isn\u2019t obvious unless someone points at it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019re a certified Salesforce Consulting Partner and licence right-sizing alongside a build assessment is routine work for our team. It frequently pays for the engagement.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"background: #EEF2FE; border: 1px solid #DBE2FB; border-radius: 14px; padding: 28px 32px; margin: 38px 0;\">\n<h4 style=\"color: #1b3fae; font-size: 22px; line-height: 1.3; font-weight: bold; margin: 0 0 10px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Not Sure Which Salesforce Platform Option Fits?<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"color: #4b5563; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0 0 22px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tell us about your users, applications and licensing needs, and our Salesforce experts can help identify the right approach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"display: inline-block; background: #2563EB; color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 600; padding: 13px 26px; border-radius: 8px;\" href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/contact\">Talk to Our Salesforce Experts\u00a0\u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>.elementor-20508 .elementor-element.elementor-element-2932a52{text-align:left;}.elementor-20508 .elementor-element.elementor-element-2932a52 > .elementor-widget-container{margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;}.elementor-20508 .elementor-element.elementor-element-0b767d1 .elementor-tab-title{border-width:1px;border-color:#00000014;}.elementor-20508 .elementor-element.elementor-element-0b767d1 .elementor-tab-content{border-width:1px;border-bottom-color:#00000014;}.elementor-20508 .elementor-element.elementor-element-0b767d1 > .elementor-widget-container{margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;}<\/style><div class=\"porto-block elementor elementor-20508\">\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-27707ca elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"27707ca\" data-element_type=\"section\">\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0163611\" data-id=\"0163611\" data-element_type=\"column\">\r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-03a2969 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"03a2969\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.14.0 - 26-06-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2932a52 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2932a52\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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elementor - v3.14.0 - 26-06-2023 *\/\n.elementor-toggle{text-align:left}.elementor-toggle .elementor-tab-title{font-weight:700;line-height:1;margin:0;padding:15px;border-bottom:1px solid #d5d8dc;cursor:pointer;outline:none}.elementor-toggle .elementor-tab-title .elementor-toggle-icon{display:inline-block;width:1em}.elementor-toggle .elementor-tab-title .elementor-toggle-icon svg{-webkit-margin-start:-5px;margin-inline-start:-5px;width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-toggle .elementor-tab-title .elementor-toggle-icon.elementor-toggle-icon-right{float:right;text-align:right}.elementor-toggle .elementor-tab-title .elementor-toggle-icon.elementor-toggle-icon-left{float:left;text-align:left}.elementor-toggle .elementor-tab-title .elementor-toggle-icon .elementor-toggle-icon-closed{display:block}.elementor-toggle .elementor-tab-title .elementor-toggle-icon .elementor-toggle-icon-opened{display:none}.elementor-toggle .elementor-tab-title.elementor-active{border-bottom:none}.elementor-toggle .elementor-tab-title.elementor-active .elementor-toggle-icon-closed{display:none}.elementor-toggle .elementor-tab-title.elementor-active .elementor-toggle-icon-opened{display:block}.elementor-toggle .elementor-tab-content{padding:15px;border-bottom:1px solid #d5d8dc;display:none}@media (max-width:767px){.elementor-toggle .elementor-tab-title{padding:12px}.elementor-toggle .elementor-tab-content{padding:12px 10px}}.e-con-inner>.elementor-widget-toggle,.e-con>.elementor-widget-toggle{width:var(--container-widget-width);--flex-grow:var(--container-widget-flex-grow)}<\/style>\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 id=\"elementor-tab-title-1201\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1201\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">What is the Salesforce Lightning Platform?<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1201\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1201\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The underlying platform-as-a-service that Salesforce\u2019s CRM apps are built on &#8211; the data model, security model, automation tools, APIs, and UI framework. You can use it to build custom applications that have nothing to do with CRM, using a cheaper Platform licence rather than a full Sales or Service Cloud seat.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 id=\"elementor-tab-title-1202\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1202\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">Is Force.com still a thing?<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1202\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1202\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, under a different name. Force.com was renamed Lightning Platform around 2018 and is now called Salesforce Platform. It\u2019s the same product. A lot of documentation, training material, and vendor collateral still uses the older names.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 id=\"elementor-tab-title-1203\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1203\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">What is a Salesforce Platform licence?<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1203\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1203\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A user licence granting access to custom apps built on the platform, without the CRM object model. Platform Starter costs around $25 per user per month with 10 custom objects; Platform Plus around $100 with 110. Neither includes Leads, Opportunities, Cases, or Campaigns.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 id=\"elementor-tab-title-1204\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1204\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">What\u2019s the difference between Platform Starter and Platform Plus?<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1204\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1204\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Custom object access, mainly &#8211; 10 versus 110 &#8211; plus a higher API allowance and record-level sharing on Plus. Starter suits simple internal apps with limited data models; Plus suits complex, data-intensive applications. Both include Flow and Apex.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 id=\"elementor-tab-title-1205\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"5\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1205\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">How much does a Platform licence save versus a full CRM licence?<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1205\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"5\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1205\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Platform Starter at roughly $25 per user per month compares with $150\u2013180 for Sales or Service Cloud Enterprise. For 200 users who never need CRM objects, that\u2019s approximately $336,000 a year at list price &#8211; before negotiation.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 id=\"elementor-tab-title-1206\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"6\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1206\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">Can Platform licence users access more than 10 custom objects?<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1206\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"6\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1206\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Technically yes, contractually no. Nothing in the software prevents assigning more via permission sets, but it breaches your agreement, and Salesforce may charge for past usage when it surfaces during a licence audit. Track object assignment against licence type deliberately.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 id=\"elementor-tab-title-1207\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"7\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1207\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">What\u2019s the difference between the Lightning Platform and Lightning Experience?<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1207\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"7\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1207\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lightning Platform is the underlying platform &#8211; data model, security, APIs. Lightning Experience is the user interface that replaced Salesforce Classic. A third thing, Lightning Web Components, is the development framework. All three are frequently confused because of the shared name.<\/span><\/p><h3>\u00a0<\/h3><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 id=\"elementor-tab-title-1208\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"8\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1208\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">Should I build on the Salesforce Platform or Heroku?<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1208\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"8\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1208\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Build on the platform for internal applications needing your CRM data, where inheriting security, sharing, mobile, and reporting outweighs governor limits. 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