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# Install or Create Packages

You can install or create packages that contain an external service. Read these tips before you begin.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions</td></tr></tbody></table>

## Consuming an External Services Package

Any flow within the package or newly added flows outside the package can reference external service actions.

## Creating an External Services Package

To ensure that subscriber orgs that install a package can use the External Service actions from the External Services registration: Add named credential components to the external services registration package. Alternatively, a subscriber can create a named credential in the subscriber org using the same name as the one specified in the external services registration that references it.

#### See Also

- [External Services](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.external_services.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Connect your Salesforce org to an external API by using zero lines of code. Use declarative tools and OpenAPI specifications to describe the external API functionality, and External Services automatically creates invocable actions within Salesforce. Use External Services for outbound integrations from Salesforce by using low-code, process-based integrations or to turbocharge your Apex integrations. Call the invocable actions natively from Apex, or create a custom agent action, flow, or Einstein bot that interacts with the external API source.")
- [Components Available in Managed Packages](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.pkg2_dev.meta/pkg2_dev/packaging_packageable_components.htm)