1. Let’s say you specialize in building partner relationship management (PRM) communities for the manufacturing or tech industries. With Lightning Bolt, you can build and export pre-packaged next-generation portals, websites, and communities that significantly reduce the time to deployment. After the Bolt Solution is installed on your customer’s org, you can further customize it to suit their unique needs.

2. By building the bulk of the solution in your org and then distributing it to your customers’ orgs, you can launch their communities in no time. Let’s say you’re an AppExchange Partner (ISV) who builds several custom Lightning components and a custom page to create an e-commerce feature for use in Community Builder. Now you can bundle the page and its components into a single package and distribute it to your customers.

3. Salesforce Lightning Bolt represents some of the top innovators from the Consulting Partner Community. Having a Lighting Bolt solution also gives you access to a wide range of benefits to promote your expertise and differentiate yourself:

Technology Benefits:

• - Product Management Support
• - Early access to new releases
• - Demo Org access
• - Pre-release Product Roadmap

Marketing Support:

• - AppExchange Listing
• - Community Cloud Academies

Business Benefits:

• - Field Sales Enablement
• - Access to Industry Leads
• - Partner Trailblazer Points

In order to receive business plan approval, Salesforce requires the following collateral items in support of your solution:

• - Data Sheet
• - 2-3 minute video
• - Customer Success story (optional)

Be as thorough as possible in explaining your concept, paying special attention to how this solution was effective in closing and delivering your anchor wins. Be sure to outline in detail how this packaged solution applies to multiple customers within your target industry.

After formal review and approval, we will contact you to work with our team, and Salesforce will grant your Lightning Bolt Solution endorsement.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Q: What is a Lightning Bolt Solution?
A: A Lightning Bolt solution comprises an exported community template that’s made up of a theme layout and CSS, along with pages, content layouts, and Lightning components. Bolt solutions seamlessly integrate with Salesforce and incorporate business logic, custom objects, industry best practices and more. Use the Customer Service (Napili) as a base to build your custom solution with standard pages and components, or create custom pages, layouts, and components of your own. After you’ve finished customizing, you can export it from the Developer section in the Settings area as a Bolt solution. When you export a Bolt solution, it appears in the Community Creation wizard in your Salesforce org, where you can use it as a base for building new communities. 

Q: What Salesforce experiences and editions is Lightning Bolt available in?
A:Lightning Bolt is available in:

• - Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience
• - Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions;

Q: Why should I develop a Lightning Bolt Solution?

A: Lightning Bolt makes it easy to create and export industry-specific solutions and use them to jump-start new projectscommunities, or package and distribute them for others to use. Save time by building once, then reusing. Whether it’s for your own org, or you’re a Consulting partner or AppExchange Partner (ISV), you can reduce the time required to build communities and cut development costs.

Q: Who can build a Lightning Bolt solution?

A: Lightning Bolt Solutions can be built by any registered Salesforce partners.

Q: Are Lightning Bolt Solutions products?
A: Bolt Solutions built by Consulting partners are accelerators and frameworks to enhance customer value and time-to-market. There may be unique commercial terms in limited circumstances. Bolt Solutions built by AppExchange Partners (ISVs) follow the standard AppExchange Partner process to launch the bolt solution on the AppExchange as a managed package. AppExchange Partners must undergo Security Review and have an AppExchange Partner contract in place. 

Q: I have a solution concept and believe it is ready to be reviewed. What is the process to do so? 

A: Review the qualifications and benefits, and then complete the application process (see "What You Need to Know" tab).

Q: Is the Lightning Bolt Solution Initiative global or country/regional specific? 

A: The Lightning Bolt Solution is global.

Q: Where can I find out more information about the Lightning Bolt Solution Program?
A: Please reach out in our Official: Lightning Bolt for Partners collaboration group >