Salesforce Sales Cloud
The largest CRM platform in the market and the most configurable thing on this list. An insurance agency can build almost anything on it, which is exactly the cost: everything insurance-specific is something you or a partner build.
What it costs
Free Suite $0, Starter Suite $25, Pro Suite $100, Core $195, Advanced $395 and Max $550 per user per month. Everything above Starter is annual billing only, and Max requires contacting sales. Financial Services Cloud, the insurance-oriented edition, is not priced on the Sales Cloud page.
Trial and access: 30-day free trial with self-serve signup on most editions; the top edition is sales-led.
Who it suits
- Large agencies and brokerages with an admin or IT partner
- Organisations standardising several business lines on one platform
- Teams with genuinely unusual processes that packaged software cannot model
- Agencies already committed to the Salesforce ecosystem
What it includes
| Insurance workflow | |
|---|---|
| Policy & renewal records | Not offered |
| Commission tracking | Not offered |
| ACORD forms & certificates | Not offered |
| Comparative rating / quoting | Not offered |
| Carrier records & downloads | Not offered |
| Producer licensing tracking | Not offered |
| Client communication | |
| Built-in SMS | Via integration |
| Built-in calling / dialler | Via integration |
| Email campaigns | Paid add-on |
| Client portal | Paid add-on |
| E-signature | Not stated |
| Platform | |
| Workflow automation | Included |
| Custom fields & objects | Included |
| Public API | Included |
| Integration marketplace | Included |
| White-label / rebranding | Not offered |
| Mobile app | Included |
| Multi-language interface | Included |
| Reporting & dashboards | Included |
| Buying it | |
| Published price list | Included |
| Free plan | Included |
| Free trial | Included |
| Self-serve signup | Included |
What it does well
- The most configurable platform here — if you can define a process, it can be modelled.
- Enormous partner, integration and developer ecosystem, including insurance-specific solutions.
- Trailhead is free, structured, certificated training and among the best in the software industry.
- Published per-seat pricing across most editions, including a free tier and a low Starter tier.
Where it falls short
- The most expensive per-seat pricing here once you pass Starter, before any implementation cost.
- Sales Cloud has no native insurance model; policies and commissions are custom objects or a partner package.
- Realistically needs an administrator or a consulting partner to run well.
- Financial Services Cloud, the insurance-shaped edition, is quoted separately.
See it in motion
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Official documentation
Sources
Everything on this page traces back to one of these. Checked 2026-09-04.
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