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Salesforce Sandboxes

Sandboxes provide isolated replicas of your production environment, enabling admins and developers to safely test changes and conduct implementations such as Agentforce and Data Cloud with minimal risk to your live data. Having multiple Salesforce Sandboxes can speed up collaborative deployment and improve version control with risk-free testing, ultimately helping IT teams avoid system downtime.

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Plan and build.

Build new features or updates swiftly in a secure environment, eliminating concerns about disrupting business operations. Admins and developers can start small with a Developer or Developer Pro Sandbox and use it to build their Agentforce and automations with metadata copied from the production environment. You also can use Scratch Orgs for parallel development and automated unit test processes.

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Test.

To mitigate downtime and errors, conduct thorough testing. Admins can use either a Partial or Full Copy Sandbox to ensure the functionality and quality of the implemented features or settings with real data. Additionally, verify user accessibility to new features through user acceptance testing and user training.

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Release and observe.

Upon completing all tests, release new features or settings to the production environment to begin utilization. Remember, ongoing observation and support for the released elements are crucial. Equip admins with Full Copy Sandbox, a complete replica of production data, to identify and address issues without impacting business operations in case of any complications.

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FAQ

A sandbox development environment is a replica of the production environment where you can plan, build, test, and deploy new features or settings.

It will reduce IT cost and speed up keeping your Salesforce up to date by building and testing outside of the production environment. This will decrease the risk of breaking the production environment.

Yes. Doing a test or making any changes in your production environment is high risk. You need to consider using sandboxes to prevent from breaking the production environment and stopping your business whenever you need to make changes.

Reducing the risk of breaking the production environment which will lower the IT cost. It will also speed up the development process to keep the application up to date and meet user's needs.

We have several options where you can choose based on your needs of activity you want to do on sandbox environments.

There are several pricing options for Salesforce Sandboxes here.