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Login Flows

Login Flows is a Setup feature that allows administrators to associate Flows with the login process, executing custom business logic after a user authenticates but before they access Salesforce.

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Definition

Login Flows is a Setup feature that allows administrators to associate Flows with the login process, executing custom business logic after a user authenticates but before they access Salesforce. Login Flows can collect additional information, enforce custom security checks, or route users to specific pages based on their profile or IP address.

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In plain English

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Here's a simple way to think about it: Login Flows lets you intercept the moment a user authenticates. Run a Flow after authentication but before the user reaches their home screen - collect missing user info, accept terms, route by IP, enforce custom MFA logic.

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Worked example

scenario · real-world use

The admin at Granite Financial creates a Login Flow that checks whether a user's security training certification has expired. If expired, the Flow redirects them to a training completion screen before allowing access to the org. Users with current certifications proceed to the home page normally. This ensures 100% compliance with the company's annual security training requirement.

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Why Login Flows let you intercept the moment a user authenticates

Authentication is the most reliable trigger in the platform - every user hits it, exactly once per session, no exceptions. Login Flows uses that fact. Associate a Flow with a profile, and Salesforce runs that Flow after authentication but before the user reaches their home screen. Use it to enforce custom MFA logic, accept just-updated terms of service, route users by IP or geography, prompt for missing user-record fields, or anything else that needs to run reliably at session start.

The trade-off is that any Flow you put here delays login by at least the flow's runtime, and a broken flow can lock users out of the org until you disable it. Build Login Flows defensively: timeout-tolerant, error-handled, fail-open for the cases where blocking login is worse than skipping the check. Test on a non-admin profile in a sandbox before any production rollout.

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How organizations use Login Flows

Cypress Therapeutics

Login Flow forces users to accept updated HIPAA-compliance attestations annually; the flow captures the acceptance with timestamps for audit.

BlueRiver Health

New-hire flow collects missing user-record fields on first login; HR data quality improved without manual chasing.

Vanguard Solutions

IP-based routing in Login Flow directs international users to region-appropriate landing pages.

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Trust & references

Official documentation

Straight from the source - Salesforce's reference material on Login Flows.

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