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Salesforce Workflow Rules and Process Builder Are Retired: Migrating to Flow

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October 25, 2026

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Salesforce ended support for Workflow Rules and Process Builder on December 31, 2025. Existing automation still runs, but bugs will not be fixed and support will not help. How to inventory, migrate with the Migrate to Flow tool, and consolidate overlapping automation as you go.

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Since December 31, 2025, Salesforce no longer supports Workflow Rules or Process Builder. Active automation keeps running exactly as before. What changed is that there are no bug fixes and no customer support for it, so any problem in those automations is now yours alone. Flow Builder is the supported replacement.

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How to migrate

  1. List every active Workflow Rule and Process Builder process per object, with what it does and when it fires.

  2. Look for overlap. Orgs that grew over years often have a workflow rule, a process and a trigger all updating the same field. Decide the intended behavior before migrating any of it.

  3. Use Salesforce's Migrate to Flow tool for straightforward cases, in a sandbox first.

  4. Consolidate into one record-triggered flow per object and timing where possible, and set the order explicitly.

  5. Test with realistic data volumes; flows that run per record can hit limits that the old automation avoided.

  6. Deactivate the old automation only after the flow is proven, and keep it for rollback for a release cycle.

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