--- schema_version: "1" id: cb25d4a139b7c60a39b5eb411aab32e5d3305aac6df7d5a52188f569aca19bc5 title: Sandbox Types and Templates collection: admin version: current locale: en-us portal_url: https://docs.salesforce.com/admin/current/en-us/platform/264-0-0/create_test_instance.md canonical_url: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.create_test_instance.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 source_site: help.salesforce.com content_type: documentation content_hash: abe7c721c32e28f83696115ef3a9d8916fce81c0e7a1823575726c7843d5d1cb description: Sandboxes are isolated from your production org, so operations that you perform in your sandboxes don’t affect your production org. products: - Salesforce Platform release: "264" --- # Sandbox Types and Templates Sandboxes are isolated from your production org, so operations that you perform in your sandboxes don’t affect your production org. ### Required Editions

Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience

Available in: Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Database.com Editions

User Permissions Needed
To view a sandbox:	View Setup and Configuration
To create, refresh, activate, and delete a sandbox:	Manage Dev Sandboxes (Developer or Developer Pro only) or Manage Sandboxes (all sandbox types)

From Setup, enter Sandboxes in the Quick Find box, then select **Sandboxes** to view and manage your existing sandboxes or create new ones. ## Sandbox Types - Developer Sandbox – A Developer sandbox is intended for development and testing in an isolated environment. A Developer Sandbox includes a copy of your production org’s configuration (metadata). - Developer Pro Sandbox – A Developer Pro sandbox is intended for development and testing in an isolated environment and can host larger data sets than a Developer sandbox. A Developer Pro sandbox includes a copy of your production org’s configuration (metadata). Use a Developer Pro sandbox to handle more development and quality assurance tasks and for integration testing or user training. - Partial Copy Sandbox – A Partial Copy sandbox is intended to be used as a testing environment. This environment includes a copy of your production org’s configuration (metadata) and a sample of your production org’s data as defined by a sandbox template. Use a Partial Copy sandbox for quality assurance tasks such as user acceptance testing, integration testing, and training. - Full Sandbox – A Full sandbox is intended to be used as a testing environment. Only Full sandboxes support performance testing, load testing, and staging. Full sandboxes are a replica of your production org, including all data, such as object records and attachments, and metadata. The length of the refresh interval makes it difficult to use Full sandboxes for development. We recommend that you apply a sandbox template so that your sandbox contains only the records that you need for testing or other tasks. When you create a Full sandbox, you also have to decide whether to include field tracking history and Chatter activity. Include it only if you require it for testing use cases. - The default is to omit field tracking. - Chatter activity data can be extensive, which can add a significant amount of time to your Full sandbox copy. ## Sandbox Templates Tab If you’ve purchased a license for Partial Copy or Full sandboxes, this tab lists any templates you’ve created. Create a Sandbox Data Template, create a sandbox from a template, edit or delete a template, or click the template name for more information. For more information about creating a Sandbox Data Template, see [Create or Edit Sandbox Templates](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.data_sandbox_templates.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Sandbox templates control which data is copied into a Partial Copy or Full sandbox."). ## Sandbox History Tab This tab displays a log of your sandbox creation and a history of refreshes, including when sandbox were created and who created them. The Sandbox History tab shows the sandboxes you created or refreshed within the last year, up to 500 entries. The tab lists sandboxes with the most recent activity (the ones created or refreshed) first. This tab provides information only. To view or edit an existing sandbox, use the Sandbox tab. ## Sandbox Licenses You purchase licenses for each sandbox type and can purchase multiple licenses of each type. Sandbox licenses are hierarchical. Specifically, the following table shows the type of sandbox you can create with each license:

	Full Sandbox license	Partial Copy Sandbox license	Developer Pro Sandbox license	Developer Sandbox license
Allows you to create:
Developer sandbox type
Developer Pro sandbox type
Partial Copy sandbox type
Full sandbox type

License stages are: - Available – The displayed value represents the number of sandbox that you’ve purchased but haven’t used. - In use – The displayed value represents the number of sandboxes that you’ve purchased and used. ![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-platform-deploy_sandboxes-264-0-0-production-enus/654e51d1-6795-49fe-bd43-b5385950cf4a/images/icon_note.png) Note If you don’t see a sandbox option or need licenses for more sandboxes, contact Salesforce to order sandboxes for your org. When your sandbox licenses expire, your existing sandboxes are subject to certain restrictions. See [Unlock a Sandbox](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.data_sandbox_licenses.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Sandboxes are licensed separately from the Salesforce service and are subject to restrictions. When your sandbox licenses expire, Salesforce decreases the count of available sandbox licenses for the selected sandbox type.") for resolution of license expiration issues. - **[Create or Edit Sandbox Templates](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.data_sandbox_templates.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Sandbox templates control which data is copied into a Partial Copy or Full sandbox. #### See Also - [Create a Sandbox](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.data_sandbox_create.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "When you create a sandbox, Salesforce copies the metadata from your production org to a sandbox org. What data gets copied depends on the sandbox type.") - [Sandbox Licenses and Storage Limits by Type](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.data_sandbox_environments.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "A sandbox is a copy of your organization in a separate environment that you can use for a variety of purposes, such as testing and training. Sandboxes are completely isolated from your Salesforce production organization. The operations you perform in your sandboxes don’t affect your Salesforce production organization. You can create different sandbox environments for your org, depending on your needs for storage, copy configuration, and frequency of refresh.") - [Unlock a Sandbox](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.data_sandbox_licenses.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Sandboxes are licensed separately from the Salesforce service and are subject to restrictions. When your sandbox licenses expire, Salesforce decreases the count of available sandbox licenses for the selected sandbox type.")