How to Compare Salesforce Objects Across Orgs? (Sandbox vs Production)

Published: Nov 08 2019

Last Updated: May 11 2026

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Are you looking for an easier way to compare Salesforce Profiles across orgs?

For Salesforce Admins and Developers, comparing Profiles between Sandbox and Production environments is an important part of deployments, audits, release validation, and security management. However, Salesforce does not provide a simple native solution for cross-org profile comparison, making the process highly manual and time-consuming.

Teams often need to log into multiple Salesforce orgs and manually compare profile permissions, object access, field-level security, tab settings, and administrative permissions one by one. This repetitive process increases the risk of configuration mismatches, missed permission changes, and deployment issues.

If you need to compare Salesforce Profiles across orgs more efficiently, using an automated solution like BOFC can help simplify the entire process.

In this guide, we will show you how to compare Salesforce Profiles across Sandbox and Production orgs using BOFC in just a few clicks.

Note:

To avail this feature, kindly make sure you have installed the latest version of the application. You can upgrade your package using either of two ways:

  1. In Salesforce, go to “BOFC Home > Settings > App Version > Click to Upgrade” — or —
  2. Refer the below button to quickly upgrade your package to the latest version and explore its complete benefits:

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Guide to Mass Compare Salesforce Objects across Orgs

1. Open the BOFC Home > Click “Compare Objects and Fields”

Compare Objects and Fields

2. It will open below screen for “Compare Objects” page

Compare Objects page

User can add any environment or organization details by clicking on “Manage Environment” button, otherwise go to next step 3.

Once “Manage Org details” is clicked, then click on “New Environment” button to add a details for new environment.

Manage Org details

Add details for new org and Save it (Click ? infront of each field for any help)

Add details for new org

Once details are added and saved, then close this “Manage Environment” popup and it will show the new connection added in the table. Perform same action for all the orgs for which objects need to be compared.

3. Select Object Name and choose two environments or orgs from the connection list.

Salesforce Object comparator

Above image has many features (each number has its description as below):

    1. User can select the object name which needs to be compared from drop-down
    2. In case the object name is not available in point 1, user can manually type the object API name to compare.
    3. User can select the display type. Whether they need to Show Everything, or Show Differences, or Show Similarities.
    4. User can choose two environments or orgs from the connection list which needs to be compared
    5. Once all four points are done, then user can click on “Compare Objects” to check the results.

4. Once Compare Objects is clicked, it will display the results as shown in below image.

Compare Objects

 

Benefits of Comparing Salesforce Profiles with BOFC

  • Compare Salesforce Profiles across orgs in just a few clicks
  • Identify permission and access differences faster
  • Reduce manual profile verification effort
  • Simplify Sandbox and Production validation
  • Improve deployment accuracy and consistency
  • Export profile comparison results into XLS format
  • Streamline Salesforce security and governance reviews
  • Eliminate repetitive profile comparison tasks
  • Improve Salesforce administration productivity
  • Perform cross-org Salesforce Profile comparison more efficiently

Conclusion

Comparing Salesforce Profiles manually across orgs can be time-consuming, repetitive, and difficult to manage, especially during deployments, audits, and release validation processes. Since Salesforce does not provide a streamlined native solution for cross-org profile comparison, Admins and Developers often spend significant time validating permissions and access settings manually.

BOFC simplifies Salesforce Profile comparison by providing a faster and more efficient way to compare Profiles across Sandbox and Production environments. With exportable comparison reports and an admin-friendly interface, teams can quickly identify permission differences, improve deployment accuracy, and maintain consistency across Salesforce orgs.

Whether you need to validate security settings, review permission changes, or streamline Salesforce governance processes, BOFC helps make Salesforce Profile comparison simpler and more efficient.

 

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