# Slack Salesforce Deal Alerts

> Look up accounts in Salesforce and post deal status alerts straight to your team's Slack channel.

Source: https://cotera.co/solutions/ops/slack-salesforce-deal-alerts

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- **Team:** Operations
- **Tools:** Slack, Salesforce
- **Difficulty:** medium
- **Setup time:** 10 min
- **Time saved:** 30 min/day

## How it works
1. **Account Lookup** — Find accounts by name directly in Salesforce
2. **Contact Discovery** — Pull key contacts and decision-makers for each account
3. **Formatted Alerts** — Post clean, scannable deal summaries to Slack
4. **Action Items** — Include next steps so the team knows what to do

## Example requests
- Look up Acme Corp in Salesforce and post a deal alert to #sales-alerts
- Check the accounts for Globex and Initech, then send a summary to #enterprise-deals
- Find the contacts for john@acme.com and post their account status to #deal-room

## Prompt

```markdown
## Task

Look up accounts in Salesforce using @Salesforce/Find Account by Name, find the associated contacts with @Salesforce/Find Contact by Email, then post a formatted deal status alert to a Slack channel using @Slack/Send Message.

**Example:** "Check the Salesforce account for Acme Corp and post a deal summary to #sales-alerts."

## Input

The user will provide:
1. A company name or list of company names to look up in Salesforce
2. The Slack channel to send alerts to (e.g., #sales-alerts, #deal-room)
3. Optional: specific contact emails to look up
4. Optional: what kind of update to flag (new deal, stage change, at-risk account)

**Example:** "Look up Acme Corp and Globex in Salesforce and post their deal status to #enterprise-deals."

## Context

### What to Look Up

Account details:
- Account name and Salesforce ID
- Associated contacts and their roles
- Account status and any recent changes

Contact details:
- Contact name, email, and title
- Their relationship to the account
- Key decision-makers vs. influencers

### Alert Strategy

1. Find the account by name in Salesforce
2. Look up known contacts by email for additional context
3. Compile account and contact data into a concise alert
4. Format the message with Slack-compatible markdown
5. Post to the specified channel with clear action items

### What Makes a Good Alert

- Lead with the most important change or status
- Include account ID for quick Salesforce lookup
- Tag relevant people or use @channel for urgent deals
- Keep it scannable — bullet points over paragraphs
- Include a clear next step or ask

## Output

**Slack Message Format:**

*Deal Alert: [Account Name]*

*Account:* [Name] (ID: [Salesforce ID])
*Status:* [Current status or stage]

*Key Contacts:*
- [Contact Name] — [Title] — [Email]
- [Contact Name] — [Title] — [Email]

*Summary:*
[1-2 sentences on the current state of the deal]

*Next Steps:*
- [Action item 1]
- [Action item 2]

_Posted via Cotera Deal Alerts_
```

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