What are Salesforce licenses license feature and limitations?
To enable specific Salesforce functionality for your users, you must choose one user license for each user. To enable more functionality, you can assign permission set licenses and feature licenses to your users or purchase usage-based entitlements for your organization.
What is a feature license?
A feature license entitles a user to access an additional feature that is not included with his or her user license, such as Marketing or WDC. Users can be assigned any number of feature licenses.
How are permission set licenses different from user licenses?
A permission set is a convenient way to assign users specific settings and permissions to use various tools and functions. Permission set licenses incrementally entitle users to access features that are not included in their user licenses. Users can be assigned any number of permission set licenses.
What’s the difference between user license and feature license?
Users can be assigned any number of permission set licenses. A feature license entitles a user to access an additional feature that is not included with his or her user license, such as Marketing or Work.com. Users can be assigned any number of feature licenses.
What do permission set licenses do for Salesforce?
So permission set licenses allow Salesforce to charge you (their customer) for access to some aspect of the platform in a way that gives you the flexibility to assign it only to the subset of your users that need it, rather than paying for all of your users.
Can a user have more than one Salesforce license?
Many Salesforce products, such as Sales Cloud and Service Cloud, also include permission set licenses. Like user licenses, permission set licenses define user-level features. But while a user can have only one user license, the user can be assigned multiple permission set licenses.