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# Step One: Sign up for Salesforce Developer Edition

Developer Edition provides a free and easy solution so that you can use Salesforce for testing and development.

To sign up for a Developer Edition account, go to [developer.salesforce.com/signup](https://developer.salesforce.com/signup).

**note:** The Developer Edition data storage maximum is 5 MB. This limit doesn’t prevent you from working with these examples.

If you have a development sandbox, you can use it with these examples.

Before you begin, verify that your user profile has the API Enabled permission by following the instructions in [User Permissions](https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=platform.admin_userperms.htm&type=5) in *Salesforce Help*.

**See Also**  


-   [*Salesforce Help*: User Permissions](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.admin_userperms.htm&type=5)
-   [*Knowledge Article*: Salesforce editions with API access](https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=000326486&type=1&mode=1)