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Chris VillanuevaChris Villanueva 

Best way to add Salesforce to my web app so that it can add/share data with other organizations?

Hello!

I am a developer new to Salesforce and am looking for some direction. Many customers who use my company's web app rely on salesforce to manage and consolidate their data. We want to add Salesforce to our app so that our customers can authorize/connect their Salesforce instance to our app, so that, whenever a particular event happens on our web app (ex: a product being bought), then the corresponding customer will have this information reflected on their Salesforce. In summary, we want data on our web app to be transmitted to other org's salesforce instances. 

What is the best way to approach this? We currently have nothing related to Salesforce set up. Are there any relevant guides that can answer my question? Or perhaps previous forums that have been answered? Thanks!!
SwethaSwetha (Salesforce Developers) 
HI Chris,
I found few links that should help you get started:
https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/197076/is-it-good-option-to-host-java-based-web-applications-on-salesforce
https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/198943/salesforce-integration-from-web-app
https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/23783/how-to-integrate-external-web-app

If this information helps, please mark the answer as best.Thank you
Chris VillanuevaChris Villanueva
This helps a bit but still am at a loss of how to think about this as an end-to-end experience. Will it require be building a Lightning App for my customers to download for their org via AppExchange? Will I need to populate the data into my org via an external API? Looking for overall guidance of how the tools are meant to be used within Salesforce. Thanks!