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Allow API Access for Professional Edition - Charge for Usage
There are many PE users like myself that only need API access and not the other features of Enterprise Edition. Most API services for other companies are free or are charged on a usage basis. During the last session of Dreamforce this idea was brought up and many people seemed interested.
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Petrovich 10/16/06 |
i agree |
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Mike_Sax. 10/16/06 |
Yes, or let Professional Edition users have an "API Account" (which would cost as much as a regular account $60/month) as a way of charging for it. |
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McCaul 10/20/06 |
Another "I agree". I would love to use the API's but don't think I have much use for most other Enterprise features. |
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D_Houston 10/20/06 |
I totally agree. I'm a developer who has three SF.com prospects who would all like to use a custom SF.com synchronization program I developed (for a customer who does have API access), but they will definitely not be able to afford Enterprise. |
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prometheus 11/07/06 |
Agreed. Or, better yet, don't charge for it. I think they are already charging too much for Professional Edition. And the costs for Enterprise are astronomical. |
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Apophis 01/10/07 |
I agree with Prometheus. I can't get my boss to approve paying for the API ... it would take too long to explain what an API is. It should be something that we can just use, because we're supposed to be able to customize Salesforce. See the idea below. http://ideas.salesforce.com/article/show/56373/API_Access_for_Professional |
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darh 01/31/07 |
I agree as well. We may be a small company, but that doesn't mean we don't have unique requirements that we need to code for. |
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Apophis 03/13/07 |
Merged Idea
originally posted 01/10/07
API Access for Professional Edition
One of SalesForce's strongest marketing points is its customization....but without access to the API in Professional Edition, my hands are pretty much tied and SF's usefulness goes downhill.
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Tannic 03/23/07 |
API access for Professional is a must. Not sure why it has to be a charge thing, but even if it were, it should be low ($20 a month or per usage). If openness is SF's big cry, set the API free! |
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bradley_holt 09/18/07 |
In my opinion, API access should be included in all versions of Salesforce. APIs typically allow a developer to write an application that can perform every action that a regular user could perform. Unless an API allows some action that can't otherwise be performed by a user, it should be free to use. I'd recommend Salesforce to many of my clients if I knew I could integrate web applications I build for them with Salesforce. |
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jimit Jan 4 |
Release the API! It makes good business sense to do so. If customers invest time to develop solutions using the API, they're less likely to be able to make a move to a competing product. Let us professional edition users actually work with your product instead of being frustrated by product limits. |
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marycs May 7 |
I agree as well. We decided that for the mopst part PE is the best fit for us, but for the few tweaks that we would like to accomplish the API would be a huge value and benefit to us even if it was just one single user account that had access to it. |
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agaric_aweb Jun 27 |
In addition to all these people already using Salesforce and capable of using the API on the Professional edition, there is a huge market of potential Salesforce users who would use it in conjunction with their content management system powered web site if the extra fee were $20 a month, for one account to have access to the API, rather than an across-the-board upgrade to Enterprise. We (Agaric Design Collective) recently overhauled the Salesforce module for Drupal – open source free software that allows non-enterprises to use enterprise-level features (they would never have to code a line). But use would also be very light compared to enterprise clients. Professional access to the API is needed, and soon! I'd love tot talk about this more. benjamin, Agaric Design Collective |
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jcrox Jul 17 |
Getting a price quote on what the API access with our Professional Edition would cost our organization, I'm taking it there has been no changes to this policy at all which is too bad. To say the lack of accessibility to this feature is a detriment to the Professional Edition is like saying Bill Gates has "some" money. I hope they either release what IMO should be a basic feature of any data-base associated application or at least make it more affordable... like 1/10 the price I was quoted today. Very disappointing :( |
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adrianlewis Oct 10 |
Just had a quote of £180 per user per year for enabling the API on Professional Edition. At current prices, that's a 33% increase on standard PE costs. Much better than the 92% price increase from PE to EE. I still think that based on what many other SaaS companies are doing that it should be free for all editions. The more people using and developing for SF integration, the more paying customers they'll win. |
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gothamjoe Nov 16 |
Does anyone want to try an experimental connection we are playing with that works with Group and Pro versions? |
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