Copado Essentials is a powerful, user-friendly tool that simplifies Salesforce deployments and release management. It enables teams to streamline their development process, reduce errors, and increase efficiency by providing features such as version control integrations, automated deployments, and in-app conflict detection. With Copado Essentials, users can easily manage their Salesforce metadata, promote changes across environments, and collaborate with their team members. The platform offers three tiers to cater to different needs and budgets:
Free - which provides limited functionality for individual users and is free forever;
Basic - which includes additional features like unlimited Deployments and Team Collaboration; and
Plus - which offers advanced capabilities such as Work Items, customizable approval processes, and CI job automation.
Whether you're a small team or a large enterprise, Copado Essentials has a solution to help you optimize your Salesforce development workflow.
Copado Essentials Free
Copado Essentials Free provides a user-friendly solution to help individual users move away from change sets and have additional visibility into their deployments:
15 deployments or validations per user, per month
Color-coded Diff Key to visually identify differences between components in source and target environments
Code Coverage: validation and static code analysis using PMD
Support via the Copado Community
Copado Essentials Basic
Copado Essentials Basic unlocks unlimited deployments and collaboration capabilities. With Basic, you get a solid set of features to streamline your Salesforce deployments:
Unlimited deployments or validations
Team Collaboration through the ability to share environment access and deployments with your team
Team Owner visibility into all team activity.
Checkmarx and CodeScan integrations
In-app product support via Intercom Chat
Copado Essentials Plus
On the other hand, Copado Essentials Plus is the more feature-packed option. In addition to everything in Basic, Plus gives you:
Advanced deployment methods, including:
Work Items with Pipelines
Pull Requests functionality via Deployments
CI Jobs for automated actions
Approvals Process for Work Items
In-app Merge Conflict Detection and Resolution with Work Items
Back Deployment awareness and facilitation
Bi-directional Jira and Azure Boards integration
Slack and Microsoft Teams notification capabilities
Custom metadata views for easier Diff Key filtering
Project Manager (formerly Client Manager) to simplify multi-org or client scenarios
Add-On Access
Add-Ons Available to Copado Essentials Plus
If Copado Essentials Plus is your chosen license, you also have access to add-ons that can be purchased separately for additional functionality:
Robotic Testing: Automate Salesforce testing with a low-code user experience and build test scripts using natural language keywords or a recorder.
Data Deploy: Move complex data between environments for apps like CPQ using pre-built or custom templates, seed sandboxes, and scramble or replace PII.
Copado Version Control: Copado-provisioned and industry-standard, Git-based repository.