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Sandbox and Production

Every company has two workspaces. Build and test in the Sandbox, where only your approved phones get anything, then go live in Production.

The two workspaces#

WhatSandboxProduction
Who receives campaignsOnly approved test devicesEvery phone running your app with the live key
SDK keypk_test_…pk_live_…
AvailableFrom sign-up, freeOn a paid plan
DataSeparate: test devices and events stay out of live reportsYour live results

Campaigns, locations, location groups, notifications, media, segments, devices and reports belong to one workspace. Company settings, the team and billing are shared by both, and you change them from Production.

Switch workspace#

  1. 1
    Open the switcher
    Click your company name at the top of the sidebar. The current workspace, Sandbox or Production, shows under the name.
  2. 2
    Choose a workspace
    Click Production (Your live app) or Sandbox (Test on your own phones). Until you're on a paid plan, Production shows a lock and Upgrade to go live instead.

Knowing where you are#

In the Sandbox, an amber Sandbox bar sits on every page: "Only approved test devices get anything here." It links to Test devices, and to Copy to Production once Production is open (or Upgrade to go live before that).

Sandbox limits#

The Sandbox is for building and testing, so it has its own limits instead of your plan's:

  • 100 locations and 10 active campaigns (running or scheduled; paused and ended campaigns don't count).
  • 250 MB of media.
  • 25 approved test devices, and up to 50 waiting for approval.
  • Location events are kept for 30 days.

Developers in Production#

Developers build in the Sandbox like anyone else. In Production they can view campaigns, locations, notifications, media and segments but not change them: they make changes in the Sandbox and an owner or admin copies them across.

From Sandbox to liveWhen your campaigns work on your test phones, subscribe to a plan, add push credentials to Production, ship the pk_live_ key and copy your work across with Copy to Production. The SDK side is in Sandbox and Production for developers.