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Create Lead

Create a Salesforce lead (an unqualified prospect not yet linked to an account). Use Create Contact instead when the person already belongs to a known account. Use Add Lead to Campaign afterwards to attribute the lead to a campaign. See the documentation
  • Action
  • Writes data
  • OAuth
  • SDK
  • MCP

IMPLEMENTATION

Call this tool

Connect a user's Salesforce account once, then configure and run Create Lead from your backend or agent.

import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "salesforce_rest_api-create-lead",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    salesforce_rest_api: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    IsConverted: true,
    Company: "Company",
  },
})

console.log(result)

SCHEMA

Inputs

Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.

Create Lead inputs
Property Type Description
IsConverted Converted boolean
Indicates whether the lead has been converted
Optional
Company Company string
The lead's company.
Required
Description Description string
The lead's description.
Optional
Email Email string
The lead's email address.
Optional
FirstName First Name string
The lead's first name.
Optional
LastName Last Name string
The lead's last name.
Required
Phone Phone string
The lead's phone number.
Optional
additionalFields Additional Fields object
Other fields to set for this record as name -> value pairs. Values are parsed as JSON where applicable. Example: {"Industry": "Technology", "AnnualRevenue": 1000000}. Use Describe Object to discover valid field names.
Optional

REFERENCE

Tool details

Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.

Registry key
salesforce_rest_api-create-lead
Version
0.4.1
App
Salesforce
Authentication
OAuth
Read-only
No
Destructive
No
Open world
Yes