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How to Connect Salesforce to Ora

Salesforce can be used to pull leads into Ora, or it can be used as a destination for your Ora emails if you're trying to integrate another system. Here's how to set up Salesforce for both.

Meagan Glenn avatar
Written by Meagan Glenn
Updated over 2 weeks ago

Before you start

Ora can use Salesforce to pull leads/contacts for campaigns. Ora can also write the emails to Salesforce fields if you're looking to integrate Ora emails into another tool (ex. SalesLoft or Outreach).

Make sure you have:

  • Salesforce Admin access
    1) If you're using the integration to pull lead/contact lists, you'll need to give Ora permission to read reports, and have access to see the email of the contact or lead within that report.

    2) If you're pushing emails into Ora - you must be able to create 5 fields on the Contact object. Ora will then need permission to write to these custom objects.


Pulling Leads/Contacts into an Ora Campaign

Ora campaigns need leads. Here's how to connect reports to pipe leads into your next Ora campaign.

Step 1: Click the Salesforce icon in Ora

  1. You’ll be prompted to log into your Salesforce account

  2. Once connected, you’ll be able to sync reports from your CRM


Step 2: Select your report

You can connect:

  • Contact reports (most common)

  • Lead reports (if your team is working earlier in the funnel)

Don’t worry about filtering personas, Ora will sort them for you based on roles and departments.


Pushing Ora Emails into Salesforce

Ora can push the email content into Salesforce. This is great if you'd like pipe Ora's emails into other tools like Clay, SalesLoft, Outreach, Gong, etc.

Step 1: Confirm field access

To complete setup, Ora needs 6 custom contact-level fields in Salesforce to deliver emails:

Field Name

Type

Used For

Ora_Subject__c

Text

Custom subject lines for outbound

Ora_Body_1__c

Long Text

First email in the sequence

Ora_Body_2__c

Long Text

Follow-up #1

Ora_Body_3__c

Long Text

Follow-up #2

Ora_Body_4__c

Long Text

Follow-up #3

Ora_Campaign_ID__c

Text

Ora Campaign ID

These fields can be mapped into Salesloft, Outreach, or another SEP (Sales Engagement Platform) to run the sequence.

Connecting Ora to SalesLoft
Connecting Ora to Outreach

Ora can also push it's research and reasoning into Salesforce. These fields can be used to help with cold calling prep, meeting prep, or additional context to be used when manually editing emails. Ora needs the following 10 fields to deliver research and reasoning:

Field Name

Type

Used For

Ora_Company_Challenges__c

Long Text

Company Challenges Reasoned by Ora

Ora_Company_Roadmap__c

Long Text

Company Roadmap Reasoned by Ora

Ora_KPIs__c

Long Text

Relevant KPIs Reasoned by Ora

Ora_Long_Term_Goals__c

Long Text

Long Term Goals for Recipient Reasoned by Ora

Ora_Potential_Consequences__c

Long Text

Potential Consequences Faced by Recipient for Not Hitting Goals Reasoned by Ora

Ora_Problem_Value__c

Long Text

Challenge Faced by Recipient Connected to Value from Sender Reasoned by Ora

Ora_Psychographics__c

Long Text

Person Psychographics Reasoned by Ora

Ora_Relevant_Industry_Language__c

Long Text

Relevant Industry Terms Reasoned by Ora

Ora_Roadblocks__c

Long Text

Person & Company Roadblocks Reasoned by Ora

Ora_Roadmap__c

Long Text

Person & Company Roadmap Reasoned by Ora

Ora can use one or all of the fields

Step 2: Ensure All Leads in Ora Campaign exist in Salesforce

You can ensure this by connecting the Ora campaign directly to a Salesforce report. But, if you choose to upload leads from a CSV, it's important to note that Ora can write to existing contacts, but will not create new contacts.

Step 3: Launch with SEP Mode

When you launch, using SEP (sales engagement platform) mode, we'll push the Ora emails to the existing contacts within Salesforce.

NOTE: Ora's SEP mode currently only supports a single sender. Ora campaigns are designed to write from it's assigned sender. If you want to push emails for multiple senders, duplicate the campaign and assign a new sender.

Ora will then write to the new fields established in Step 1. Please reference the following guides if you're building automations to pull these emails into other platforms.

Connecting Ora to SalesLoft
Connecting Ora to Outreach

Reach out if you need help setting up your integration via our live chat or at [email protected].


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