Upgrading to Services Estimator Winter 2025

This page describes the changes to make when upgrading to Winter 2025.

See the Upgrade Steps section under each feature for details of any action required. If you don't want to use or upgrade an optional feature, you can skip the upgrade steps for that feature. To perform upgrade steps in your org, you must be assigned administrator permissions.

See the Included in This Feature section under each feature for details of items such as objects, fields, or buttons that have been added in this release.

Note:

Where new objects, fields, or buttons have been added for a feature, we recommend that you add them to any relevant page layouts, profiles, and permission sets. For information on how to do this, see the Salesforce Help.

For information on new features and changes to existing features in Winter 2025, see New Features and Enhancements in Services Estimator Winter 2025.

Services CPQ is Now Services Estimator

Upgrade Steps

To upgrade this feature to Winter 2025, take the following action.

Upgrade Steps for Winter 2025

Actions

Further Information

Rename the Services CPQ Lightning app to Services Estimator.

See the Salesforce Help.

Spring 2025 PSA and Foundations Dependency Update

Upgrade Steps

To upgrade this feature to Winter 2025, take the following action.

Upgrade Steps Added in Winter 2025
Actions Further Information
Upgrade PSA and Foundations to Winter 2025 ahead of the Spring 25 release of Services Estimator. Setting up Services Estimator

Calculating Hours Using Full-Time Equivalent (%)

Upgrade Steps

No upgrade steps are required to upgrade this feature to Winter 2025.

Included in This Feature

This section details the items that have been added, updated, or deleted in this release.

Fields

Fields Added in Winter 2025

Field

Object

Further Information

Full-Time Equivalent (%) Estimate Role Request Estimate Role Request Fields
Scheduling Strategy Estimate Estimate Fields

Introducing Billing Schedules to Estimate Products

Upgrade Steps

No upgrade steps are required to upgrade this feature to Winter 2025.

Included in This Feature

This section details the items that have been added, updated, or deleted in this release.

Fields

Fields Added in Winter 2025

Field

Object

Further Information

Independent Fixed Price Billing Freq Estimate

Estimate Fields

Indep Fixed Price Upfront Billing (%)
Default Fixed Price Billing Frequency Estimate Product Estimate Product Fields
Default Fixed Price Upfront Billing (%)
Fixed Price Billing Frequency Estimate Product Instance Estimate Product Instance Fields
Fixed Price Upfront Billing (%)

Billable Contingency Enhancements

Upgrade Steps

To upgrade this feature to Winter 2025, take the following action.

Upgrade Steps for Winter 2025
Action Further Information
Add the Estimate Contingencies related list to the Additional Costs tab. Estimate Contingency Overview
Enable the Services Estimator Winter 2025 feature in the Feature Console to populate the Bill Amount field on line sets. Enabling and Disabling Features

Included in This Feature

This section details the items that have been added, updated, or deleted in this release.

Fields

Fields Added in Winter 2025
Field Object Further Information
Total Billable Contingency Amount Opportunity Product Opportunity Product Fields
Bill Amount Estimate Line Set Estimate Line Set Fields

Adding a Risk to an Estimate

Upgrade Steps

To upgrade this feature to Winter 2025, take the following action.

Upgrade Steps for Winter 2025

Field

Further Information

Assign read permission for the Risk object to all Services Estimator users, even if you don't intend on using this feature. Without these permissions, users cannot view or edit an estimate record. Estimate Risk Overview
Add the Create Estimate Risk button to the Estimate page layout.

Add the Estimate Risk related list to the Additional Costs tab.

Add the new Estimate Risk fields listed in the Fields section to the Estimate Risk page layout. Estimate Risk Fields

Included in This Feature

This section details the items that have been added, updated, or deleted in this release.

Objects

Objects Added in Winter 2025

Object

Further Information

Estimate Risk Estimate Risk Overview

Fields

Fields Added in Winter 2025

Field

Object

Further Information

Comments Estimate Risk Estimate Risk Fields
Contingency
Delivery Risk
Estimate
Estimate Product Instance
Impact
Likelihood
Mitigation Plan
Project Risk
Severity

Read-Only Cells in the Estimate Builder When a Project is Created

Upgrade Steps

No upgrade steps are required to upgrade this feature to Winter 2025.

Release Content

Upgrade Steps

No upgrade steps are required to upgrade this feature to Winter 2025.

Permissions

Upgrade Steps

To upgrade this feature to Winter 2025, take the following action.

Upgrade steps for Winter 2025

Action

Further Information

If you are using custom permission sets, add the new permissions to the appropriate permission sets.

Permission Sets and Other Technical Documentation