NetSuite Sandbox

A NetSuite sandbox is a safe and isolated test account in which you can develop and test new applications and customizations without worrying about affecting your production account. You can have one or more sandboxes provisioned for each production account. Each sandbox account has the same configuration, data, and customizations as your company's production account.

Sandbox accounts provide ideal places for:

Testing customization elements before deployment.
Fixing issues with existing customizations.
Trying out third-party integration features.
Training employees in existing and new business practices in an account identical to your production account.

Actions you take in sandbox accounts, such as transaction entries, record deletions, and form customizations, have no effect on your NetSuite production account. You can feel free to make changes in a sandbox account without altering your production data.

To help users distinguish between production roles and sandbox roles, see Logging in to Your Sandbox Account.

Note:

For more information about acquiring one or more sandbox accounts, contact your account representative.

Review the following for more details about sandboxes:

Some features are not fully available for testing in a sandbox account. For details, see Features Available for Testing in a Sandbox.
For information about how to log in to your sandbox, see Logging in to Your Sandbox Account.
For information about providing user access to a sandbox, see Granting Access to Your Sandbox Account.
For information about using more than one sandbox, see Working with Multiple Sandbox Accounts.
Account administrators and users with the System Administrator role can review details about the sandbox account(s) associated with a production account, and initiate the first copy of production data into newly provisioned sandbox accounts. See Using the Sandbox Accounts Page.
Sandbox accounts can be periodically refreshed from production, upon your request. See Refreshing Sandbox Accounts. This task is managed through the Sandbox Accounts page in your production account.
For details about what happens when a sandbox account expires, see When a Sandbox Account Expires.
For instructions on setting preferences for email messages coming from your sandbox account, see Setting Preferences for Sandbox Email.

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