Connect your Salesforce Marketing Cloud account to Experience Platform through the UI

IMPORTANT
Custom object ingestion is currently not supported by the Salesforce Marketing Cloud source integration.

This tutorial provides steps on how to connect your Salesforce Marketing Cloud account to Adobe Experience Platform through the UI.

Getting started

This tutorial requires a working understanding of the following components of Experience Platform:

If you already have a Salesforce Marketing Cloud account, you may skip the remainder of this document and proceed to the tutorial on bringing marketing automation data to Experience Platform using the UI.

Gather required credentials

In order to access your Salesforce Marketing Cloud account on Platform, you must provide the following values:

Credential
Description
Host
The host server of your application. This is often your subdomain. Note: When entering your host value, you need to specify the {subdomain}.rest.marketingcloudapis.com. For example, if your host URL is https://acme-ab12c3d4e5fg6hijk7lmnop8qrst.auth.marketingcloudapis.com/, then you must enter acme-ab12c3d4e5fg6hijk7lmnop8qrst.rest.marketingcloudapis.com/ as your host value.
Client ID
The client ID associated with your Salesforce Marketing Cloud application.
Client secret
The client secret associated with your Salesforce Marketing Cloud application.

For more information about authentication for Salesforce Marketing Cloud, visit the Salesforce authentication documentation.

Connect your Salesforce Marketing Cloud account

In the Platform UI, select Sources from the left navigation to access the Sources workspace. The Catalog displays a variety of sources supported by Experience Platform.

You can select the appropriate category from the list of categories. You can also use the search bar to filter for a specific source.

Under the Marketing automation category, select Salesforce Marketing Cloud and then select Set up.

The sources catalog with the Salesforce Marketing Cloud source selected.

The Connect to Salesforce Marketing Cloud page appears. On this page, you can either create a new account or use an existing account.

New account

To create a new account, select New account and provide a name for your account, an optional description, and the authentication credentials that correspond with your Salesforce Marketing Cloud account.

When finished, select Connect to source and then allow some time for the new connection to establish.

The new account interface where you can authenticate a new account for Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

Existing account

If you already have an existing account, select Existing account and then select the account that you would like to use from the list that appears.

The existing account interface where you can select from a list of existing Salesforce Marketing Cloud accounts.

Next steps

By following this tutorial, you have established a connection between your Salesforce Marketing Cloud account and Experience Platform. You can now continue on to the next tutorial and create a dataflow to bring your marketing automation data into Experience Platform.

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