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Salesforce is a CRM platform for managing customer relationships, sales pipelines, and support cases. The Salesforce connector lets your Lovable app query and update CRM records through your own Salesforce org. It’s designed for internal tools, customer portals, and support dashboards that need live access to Salesforce data. With Salesforce, your app can:
  • Query Accounts, Contacts, Leads, Cases, and other standard objects using SOQL.
  • Display and filter CRM records in dashboards and internal tools.
  • Create and update records via the Salesforce REST API.
  • Run custom SOQL queries for reporting and data exports.
It’s a good fit for sales ops tools, support portals, and any app that surfaces Salesforce data to your team.

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Common use cases and example apps

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How to connect Salesforce

Workspace admins and owners can connect Salesforce. You can create multiple Salesforce connections using different orgs or External Client Apps, which is useful for separating production and sandbox environments. When the connection is created, Salesforce becomes available across all projects in the workspace. Anyone building in a project can ask Lovable in chat to link their project to it.

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Prerequisites

Before connecting Salesforce, make sure you have:
  • A Salesforce org (Developer Edition, production, or sandbox)
  • A Salesforce External Client App with OAuth enabled (see Step 1 below)
  • Lovable workspace owner or admin role
All API requests made through this connector count against your Salesforce org’s API limits. Billing and quota are handled directly by Salesforce, not Lovable.

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Step 1: Create a Salesforce External Client App

Salesforce uses External Client Apps to authorize third-party access via OAuth. You need to create one to get a Client ID and Client Secret for Lovable.
Salesforce no longer allows creating new Connected Apps. External Client Apps are their replacement, and the Lovable connector works identically with both. If you already have a connection set up with a Connected App, it keeps working and needs no migration.
1

Open Setup in Salesforce

Sign in to your Salesforce org. Click the gear icon in the top-right corner and select Setup.
2

Navigate to App Manager

In the left sidebar, search for App Manager and select it under Apps.
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Create a new External Client App

Click New External Client App in the top-right corner.Fill in the required fields:
  • Name: for example, Lovable Integration
  • API Name: auto-populated from the name
  • Contact Email: your email address
  • Distribution State: leave set to Local
4

Enable OAuth settings

Expand the Enable OAuth section and check Enable OAuth.Set the Callback URL to:
Under Selected OAuth Scopes, add:
  • Manage user data via APIs (api)
  • Perform requests at any time (refresh_token, offline_access)
Leave all other settings at their defaults, then click Create.
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Retrieve your credentials

Open your new app in Setup → External Client App Manager, select the Settings tab, and expand OAuth Settings.Click Consumer Key and Secret to view your credentials:
  • Consumer Key: this is your Client ID
  • Consumer Secret: this is your Client Secret
Copy both values and store them securely.
Your Client Secret functions like a password. Keep it secure and never share it publicly. You’ll need it in the next step.
See Salesforce External Client Apps documentation for more detail.

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Step 2: Connect Salesforce to Lovable

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Open Salesforce in Connectors

Go to Connectors → App connectors and select Salesforce.
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Add a connection

Click Add connection.
3

Enter your credentials

Fill in the connection fields:
  • Display name: name the connection, for example Salesforce Prod. This name is only used inside Lovable to identify the connection.
  • Environment: select Production for production orgs and Developer Edition. Select Sandbox only if your org is a test.salesforce.com sandbox.
  • Account URL: your org’s My Domain URL, for example https://acme.my.salesforce.com. Find this in Setup → My Domain.
  • Client ID: the Consumer Key from your External Client App.
  • Client Secret: the Consumer Secret from your External Client App.
4

Choose who can access this connection

Under Who can access this connection, decide who in your workspace can use the connection:
  • Only you (default): only the person creating the connection can use it and its associated data.
  • Invite specific people: only you and explicitly added workspace members can use the connection and its associated data.
  • Invite entire workspace: click Invite entire workspace to make the connection available to everyone in your Lovable workspace.
See Who can manage connections for more information.
5

Authorize with Salesforce

Click Connect. The Salesforce authorization window opens, so make sure your browser doesn’t block pop-ups. If it does, Lovable redirects you instead.Sign in to Salesforce if prompted, review the requested permissions, and click Allow.You’ll be redirected back to Lovable with a confirmation.
When connected, anyone building in a project can ask Lovable in chat to link their project to Salesforce (based on configured connection-level access). Your Lovable apps can then query and update CRM records through your Salesforce org.

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Limitations

The Salesforce connector cannot:
  • Access orgs outside the *.salesforce.com domain.
  • Use Salesforce Bulk API or Streaming API endpoints.
Each connection represents a single Salesforce org shared across all projects linked to it.
Need each end user to sign in with their own Salesforce account and act on their own data? Use the Salesforce app user connector instead.
If Salesforce authorization is revoked from the Salesforce side (for example, if the External Client App is deleted or the authorized user’s permissions change), you’ll need to reconnect the integration in Lovable before API calls can succeed again.

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Troubleshooting

Your Salesforce External Client App has the wrong callback URL. In your Salesforce app settings, set the callback URL to exactly:
Save the change in Salesforce, wait a few minutes for it to take effect, and connect again. Setups created before July 8, 2026 may have copied an incorrect URL from an earlier version of this page.
Editors and above can remove specific projects from a connection without deleting the connection entirely. The connection will remain available for other projects. To unlink projects:
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Open Connectors

Open Connectors, then go to App connectors, and select .
2

Open the connection

Open the connection you want to manage.
3

Select projects

Under Linked projects, check the projects you want to unlink.
4

Confirm

Click Unlink projects and confirm.
When unlinked, those projects will no longer have access to through this connection. If a project needs again, you can link it to any available connection.

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How to delete a connection

Workspace admins and owners can delete connections. Other members can delete a connection if they created it, or if they have been explicitly granted access to it.
Deleting a connection is permanent and cannot be undone. It will remove the credentials from all linked projects, and any apps using this connection will stop working until a new connection is added.
Before deleting, review the Linked projects section to see which projects are currently using the connection. To delete a connection:
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Open Connectors

Open Connectors, then go to App connectors, and select .
2

Open the connection

Open the connection you want to remove.
3

Review linked projects

Review the Linked projects section.
4

Delete

Under Delete this connection, click Delete and confirm.