In our Salesforce CRM, we wanted to integrate a new marketing automation platform with Salesforce to improve marketing campaigns and lead management. The integration requires a Salesforce Org ID to establish a secure connection between the two systems.
In this tutorial, I will explain the difference between 15-digit and 18-digit org IDs and how to find Salesforce Org ID in your console.
Salesforce Org ID
Salesforce Org ID stands for Organization ID of the Salesforce environment, a unique identification assigned to each Salesforce organization. This ID identifies your Salesforce environment from others and is used for many administrative and integration purposes.
It is an alphanumeric string of 15 case-sensitive version characters that helps to differentiate a Salesforce instance from another.
18-character Org ID in Salesforce
The 18-character Salesforce Organization ID is an extended case-insensitive version of the standard 15-character Organization ID. In the 18-character org ID, three extra characters called “c