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Connect your Salesforce Marketing Cloud account to Experience Platform through the UI
The Salesforce Marketing Cloud source will be deprecated at the end of June 2025.
This tutorial provides steps on how to connect your Salesforce Marketing Cloud account to Adobe Experience Platform through the UI.
Getting started
This tutorial requires a working understanding of the following components of Experience Platform:
- Experience Data Model (XDM) System: The standardized framework by which Experience Platform organizes customer experience data.
- Basics of schema composition: Learn about the basic building blocks of XDM schemas, including key principles and best practices in schema composition.
- Schema Editor tutorial: Learn how to create custom schemas using the Schema Editor UI.
- Real-Time Customer Profile: Provides a unified, real-time consumer profile based on aggregated data from multiple sources.
If you already have a Salesforce Marketing Cloud account, you may skip the remainder of this document and proceed to the tutorial on bringing marketing automation data to Experience Platform using the UI.
Gather required credentials
In order to access your Salesforce Marketing Cloud account on Platform, you must provide the following values:
| Credential | Description |
|---|---|
| Host | The host server of your application. This is often your subdomain. Note: When entering your host value, you need to specify the {subdomain}.rest.marketingcloudapis.com. For example, if your host URL is https://acme-ab12c3d4e5fg6hijk7lmnop8qrst.auth.marketingcloudapis.com/, then you must enter acme-ab12c3d4e5fg6hijk7lmnop8qrst.rest.marketingcloudapis.com/ as your host value. |
| Client ID | The client ID associated with your Salesforce Marketing Cloud application. |
| Client secret | The client secret associated with your Salesforce Marketing Cloud application. |
For more information about authentication for Salesforce Marketing Cloud, visit the Salesforce authentication documentation.
Connect your Salesforce Marketing Cloud account
Custom object ingestion is currently not supported by the Salesforce Marketing Cloud source integration.
In the Platform UI, select Sources from the left navigation to access the Sources workspace. The Catalog displays a variety of sources supported by Experience Platform.
You can select the appropriate category from the list of categories. You can also use the search bar to filter for a specific source.
Under the Marketing automation category, select Salesforce Marketing Cloud and then select Set up.
The Connect to Salesforce Marketing Cloud page appears. On this page, you can either create a new account or use an existing account.
New account
To create a new account, select New account and provide a name for your account, an optional description, and the authentication credentials that correspond with your Salesforce Marketing Cloud account.
When finished, select Connect to source and then allow some time for the new connection to establish.
Existing account
If you already have an existing account, select Existing account and then select the account that you would like to use from the list that appears.
Next steps
By following this tutorial, you have established a connection between your Salesforce Marketing Cloud account and Experience Platform. You can now continue on to the next tutorial and create a dataflow to bring your marketing automation data into Experience Platform.
