To make and receive calls using Vonage Contact Center in Salesforce, you link Vonage Contact Center to a Salesforce user account. The Salesforce user account must be an API user account. Vonage Contact Center uses the linked account to log in to Salesforce and perform automated actions. These automated actions include looking for a Salesforce record and creating a task at the end of a call.
The API user must have enough privileges to allow the automated actions. For information about permissions that the API user needs, see ContactWorld API user permissions. You can connect an API user account to a maximum of five Vonage Contact Center accounts. If you have more than five accounts, you must create more than one Salesforce API user account.
To link Vonage Contact Center to your Salesforce account, perform the following steps:
Log in to Vonage Contact Center. For information about logging in to Vonage Contact Center, see Logging in to the Vonage Contact Center Admin Portal.
From the Vonage Contact Center homepage, move your mouse pointer over the menu icons on the left of the page.
In the menu that appears, click Salesforce Administration. If you cannot see Salesforce Administration and think you should be able to, contact support. Salesforce Administration appears.
The Salesforce account credentials area displays one of three statuses:
- Unlinked. You have not linked Vonage Contact Center to a Salesforce account.
- Linked. You have already linked Vonage Contact Center to a Salesforce account. You can relink Vonage Contact Center to a different Salesforce org or use a different API user. You do not need to relink.
- Legacy. You have already linked your account to Vonage Contact Center using a legacy method. We recommend that you relink Vonage Contact Center using this new method.
Click Link or Relink and, in the drop-down list that appears, click Production or Sandbox depending on whether you want to link to a production org or a sandbox org. A Salesforce login page opens in a new browser window.
Log in to your Salesforce org as your API user. In the same browser window, a Salesforce Allow Access? page appears.
You must log in to Salesforce directly as the API user.
When you are logged in to Salesforce as an administrator, you are able to log in as another user. You must not use this method to log in as your API user due to Salesforce security. For information about logging in as another user and the related security measure, see Salesforce help.
Click Allow to enable Vonage Contact Center to access your Salesforce org using the API user's credentials. The Salesforce browser window closes.
- In Vonage Contact Center, the Salesforce Administration page updates, and your Salesforce account credentials appear. Your status is Linked.
To unlink your account, click Unlink. A message appears to inform you that your Salesforce integration will no longer work. The Salesforce Administration page updates and the status of your Salesforce account credentials is Unlinked.