How to Set Up Salesloft Field Mappings

Kevin Doherty

Updated 10 April 2026 08:56

Learn how to set up Salesloft field mappings in Cognism to control exports, map data accurately, and manage update behaviour.

This article explains how to map Cognism contact and company data to the correct fields in Salesloft.

By configuring field mappings and match handling rules, you can ensure accurate data exports, consistent records, and better alignment with your sales engagement workflows.

Field mappings apply to exports from both the Cognism web application and the Cognism Chrome Extension.

Prerequisites

Before you start, you should:

Be a Cognism admin
Have Salesloft connected to Cognism
Have completed the Salesloft integration setup
Understand how you want Cognism data to appear in Salesloft

Open Salesloft field mapping settings

In Cognism, go to the setting pages and click Integrations in the left-hand menu.
Select Salesloft.
Click Setup or Configure.
Follow the setup flow until you reach Map Data Fields

Field mappings are configured during the Salesforce integration setup process, or can be updated later using the Configure button.

Configure general export behaviour

Use the Field Mapping step to control what happens when Cognism exports data to Salesloft and finds existing records.

Match handling

When a matching person or account is detected in Salesloft, you can choose to:

Update the existing person
Update the related account
Update both the person and the account

These settings apply when exporting both new and existing data.

Map person fields

Use the Person step to map Cognism contact data to Salesloft person fields.

For each Cognism field, select the Salesloft field you want to map it to from the dropdown.

Available person mappings

A Salesloft person record is created with the following data, where available:

Cognism field	Description
Email	Person’s email address
First name	Person’s first name
Last name	Person’s last name
Mobile phone	Person’s mobile number
Home phone	Person’s home phone number
Office phone	Person’s office phone number
Company	Person’s company name
Job title	Person’s job title
Job seniority	Person’s seniority level
Industry	Industry the person works in
Personal LinkedIn URL	Person’s LinkedIn profile
Personal Twitter handle	Person’s Twitter handle
Person location	City, state, country, and time zone
Work location	City, state, and country
Company website	Company website
Do Not Call	DNC status based on national registers
Owner	Set to the exporting user by default

Map account fields

Use the Account step to map Cognism company data to Salesloft account fields.

Available account mappings

A Salesloft account record is created with the following data, where available:

Cognism field	Description
Account name	Company name
Domain	Company domain
Conversational name	Company conversational name
Website	Company website
Company size	Employee count
Industry	Company industry
LinkedIn URL	Company LinkedIn profile
Company type	Organisation type
Location	Street, city, state, postcode, and country
Locale	Company locale
Phone	Company phone number
Year founded	Year the company was founded

Use static value mappings

Additional mappings let you populate Salesloft fields with static values.

Static values apply the same value to every exported record. A common use case is setting a default owner or source value.

If you want to use a different owner for newly created people or accounts, you can:

Configure default ownership rules in Salesloft, or
Set a static value mapping in Cognism

Expected results

After configuring Salesloft field mappings:

Cognism exports people and accounts to the correct Salesloft fields
Existing records are updated based on your match handling rules
Static values are applied consistently to all exports

Next steps

Test exports with a small number of records
Review match handling to avoid unintended updates
Align field mappings with your Salesloft data standards