When your Salesforce org holds thousands of records, updating them one at a time wastes time and invites mistakes. Mass action tools — bulk actions that run one change across many records instead of one — are part of the Act stage: using trusted data to do real work, like assigning records to the right owner or updating a batch of leads in a single pass.
Plauti handles this natively inside Salesforce, but it's one of several mass action tools built for the job. This article compares six.
A bulk action changes many records in one pass instead of one at a time. If a sales team wants to mark a batch of leads "Qualified," a bulk action updates all of them at once instead of opening each record individually. The same logic applies to deleting a group of outdated records.
Salesforce ships some of this natively — Data Loader, Mass Update, Mass Delete — and the AppExchange carries several dedicated apps built for the same job. They differ in what they can do and what they cost, so it's worth comparing before you commit to one. Here are six of the tools teams are using in 2026.
Note: "bulk update" and "mass update" are used interchangeably across vendors and usually mean the same thing.