Financial Services Cloud · wealth management, lending, fintech

Salesforce Financial Services Cloud: what the package does, and where it stops.

FSC gives you households, financial accounts and relationship roles out of the box. It does not give you custodian data, referral programmes, reporting a CFO can check, or a way around the limits of a managed package. That second list is what we build, in three named wealth and lending firms.

Alterra Advisors · 49 Financial · GoodLeap · reviews on Clutch: 5.0

What FSC does well

Three things the package gets right, if the data model is set up for your firm.

Households and relationships

Person Accounts, Households, Account-Contact Relations, Financial Accounts. The model exists; at Alterra we reworked it so household naming and member roles stayed in sync instead of drifting.

Action plans and compliance cadences

Onboarding, KYC review, service levels as Flows with owners and dates. At 49 Financial, onboarding and compliance review moved from partly manual to automated; onboarding time fell 40%.

Role-based views for advisers and loan officers

One client view for advisers, dynamic call scripting and priority queues for loan officers. Adoption follows when the screen matches the job.

Where it stops

Four limits every FSC firm hits. What we build around each.

Not hacks inside the package. A documented layer around it that any partner after us can read.

  1. 01

    Custodian data

    Schwab, Fidelity, Pershing feeds do not arrive as FSC objects. Event-driven integration with Platform Events and Change Data Capture, so 100% of custodian data landed in one client view at 49 Financial without recursion against the package's own triggers.

  2. 02

    Managed packages: Salentica and friends

    Field limits, storage limits, automation you cannot change. Child and external objects for the high-volume data, and the package left intact. No lock-in: the firm keeps the accelerators and the flexibility.

  3. 03

    Referral and advocate programmes

    FSC has Referrals; it does not have your tiers, points, cadences and conversion rules. At Alterra: origin and owner routing, stage movement, task cadences, tier progression, dashboards. Zero critical errors after deployment.

  4. 04

    Reporting a CFO can check

    AUM, pipeline and compliance cadence on one dashboard, real-time, instead of a spreadsheet someone updates on Friday. Built on clean household data, which is why the data work comes first.

How it starts

Five days inside your FSC org, read-only.

The Health Check scores the household model, automation overlap, integration reliability, release safety, adoption and access. Every finding carries the price of its fix. $1,500, credited in full against the fix.

Before you say yes

Questions about FSC.

Do we need Financial Services Cloud, or is Sales Cloud enough?
FSC earns its licence when households, financial accounts and relationship roles are the centre of your work: wealth, lending, advisory. A lender running simple deal stages, or a fintech with its own core system, often does better on Sales Cloud with a documented layer. We tell you which on the first call, and the Health Check report says why.
Where does FSC stop?
At custodian data, at reporting that mixes AUM with pipeline, at referral and advocate programmes, and at anything a managed package like Salentica does not allow you to change. That is where the extension layer around the package comes in.
Can you work with Salentica, or another managed package?
Yes. At 49 Financial we built around Salentica with child and external objects and event-driven integration, so the firm kept the accelerators without the lock-in.
Do you sell the licences?
No. FSC, Data Cloud and Agentforce are bought from Salesforce. We tell you what you need before you sign, and what you do not.
Have you done banks or insurers?
No, and we do not claim it. Wealth management, lending and fintech are what we can show.

Book a Health Check.

We reply within one business day with a kickoff slot and the access checklist. The week starts when we have access.

Fixed price. Credited in full against the next project within twelve months.