Leaving Salesforce safely is a data and operating change, not a subscription cancellation. Your team needs the current pipeline, customer context, activity history, files, consent and ownership rules to remain usable on the other side. Begin before the contract deadline: inventory the data, document the workflow, export a controlled copy and map each object to its destination. Run a limited parallel period, reconcile totals and set a cutover and rollback decision. The goal is continuity for customers and staff, not a rushed transfer of every field ever created.
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List objects, fields, relationships, activities, files, attachments, owners, permissions, reports, automations and integrations. Mark what is active, historical, duplicate, sensitive or no longer needed. Confirm export rights, retention requirements and who approves the dataset. Take a read-only baseline and preserve metadata that explains pipeline stages. Without an inventory, a technically successful export can still omit the context people need.
Create a field-level map from source to destination, including transformations for stages, owners, dates, statuses and identifiers. Decide how to represent custom objects and archived records. Deduplicate with review rules, validate email and phone fields and preserve relationships. Do not clean by deleting evidence before an approved archive exists. A migration map should identify fields that cannot be carried over and the business decision for each.
Load a test sample and ask sales, delivery and finance to complete real tasks. Then run a defined parallel period with a clear source of truth and a process for recording changes. Compare pipeline value, record counts, ownership, activities and sample customer journeys. Fix mapping issues before the cutover window. Keep users informed about what they should and should not update during the trial.
Set a freeze time, final export, import sequence, reconciliation report and named decision makers. Confirm integrations, permissions, notifications and backups before opening the new system. Keep the old environment available in read-only form for the agreed retention period. If critical counts, ownership or workflows fail acceptance tests, pause and roll back rather than forcing a launch. After cutover, monitor pipeline movement and follow-up completion closely. Schedule check-ins with frontline users and finance, since missing context often appears in a live exception rather than in a sample import.
Relevant history can often be exported and mapped, but the destination model may differ. Decide which activities and stages are needed for continuity and reporting.
Long enough for representative sales, delivery and finance tasks, including an exception. The right period depends on workflow volume and risk, not a universal number.
No. Migrate what supports service, reporting, legal or operational needs, and retain an appropriately controlled archive for the rest.
Agree thresholds for missing records, incorrect ownership, broken integrations or failed acceptance tests before cutover, so the decision is not improvised.
This Salesforce exit plan focuses on controlled exports, field and relationship mapping, reconciliation, parallel running, cutover ownership and rollback rather than a rushed platform switch.
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