StoreConnect Architect Dreamin' Americas Session, January 2026
At the Architect Dreamin’ conference (January 2026), Mikel Lindsaar (CEO & Founder of StoreConnect) presented how traditional Salesforce-integrated e-commerce and website architectures create data silos, fragmented systems, and technical debt. He introduced StoreConnect as a managed package built natively inside Sales Cloud that delivers a full-featured, customizable e-commerce platform, CMS, POS, subscriptions, loyalty, bookings, and more, all with zero API calls to the Salesforce org, real-time bidirectional sync via patented Heroku Connect usage, and instant readiness for Agentforce AI.
Key Takeaways:
- Siloed systems create pain Traditional best-of-breed tools (Shopify + connectors, WordPress, separate POS) lead to fragmented data, slow integrations, and poor AI readiness.
- Native Salesforce commerce StoreConnect delivers full e-commerce, CMS, POS, subscriptions, loyalty, bookings, and more as a managed package directly inside Sales Cloud—no Experience Cloud required.
- Patented real-time sync Uses a change-event message bus over Heroku Connect for ≈2-second bidirectional sync across 150+ objects, avoiding traditional sync failures and validation jams.
- True omnichannel Carts and behavior sync live between online and in-store (start cart online, finish in-store or vice versa) without re-entering data.
- Zero API usage No Salesforce API calls from the front end means no governor limits, automatic scaling (e.g., 36k orders/day handled seamlessly), and instant Agentforce/AI readiness.
- Dynamic field sync Expose any custom Salesforce field to the website/POS instantly for personalized pricing, progress bars, live scores, etc.
- Broad feature coverage Multiple storefronts, currencies, account/member-specific price books, evergreen + fixed-term subs, bookings, rewards/loyalty, CPQ/Revenue Cloud integration.
- Per-org pricing Only pay per org (no per-user cost) allows very low-cost POS rollouts (e.g., 600 terminals across 83 stores with Chatter/free user records only).
- Quick to start Installable from AppExchange today; free fundamentals course builds a live donation/e-commerce site in 2–4 hours.
Here is a short interview with one of the attendees about what he thought of the StoreConnect session:
In short: StoreConnect + Agentforce turns Salesforce into a complete, extensible, powerful, conversational, real-time, customer-facing e-commerce, point of sale and content management system powerhouse with no extra systems, no data sync headaches, and no slow Experience Cloud spinners.