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Accessing Your Salesforce Sandbox: A Step-by-Step Guide

As a Salesforce user, having a sandbox environment is essential for testing and developing new features, customizing your instance, and ensuring that changes won’t impact your production data. In this article, we’ll walk you through the process of accessing your Salesforce sandbox.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, make sure you have:

  1. A valid Salesforce login credentials (Production)
  2. The name of your sandbox instance, this can be found in your Production instance under Setup > Sandboxes.

Step 1: Authenticate in Your Sandbox Instance

Start by accessing the sandbox URL or go to https://test.salesforce.com. Enter your login credentials. In the username field, type the same username used in Salesforce Production and append the name of your sandbox instance (e.g., [support@digitalkis.com].sandbox-name). The password remains the same as your production account.

Step 2: Verify Sandbox Access

Once logged in, confirm that you’re accessing your sandbox instance by checking the URL. The URL should include the name of your sandbox (e.g., `https://digitalkis–sandbox-name.sandbox.lightning.force.com`) or review the top of the page to ensure you’ve successfully entered the correct sandbox environment.

That’s it! You should now be able to access and work within your Salesforce sandbox environment.

Additional Tips

Make sure to keep your sandbox credentials separate from your production login credentials.

Regularly sync your sandbox data with your production instance to ensure consistency.

Don’t hesitate to reach out to us if you encounter any issues accessing your sandbox 😉

We hope this guide has helped you access your Salesforce sandbox.

Happy testing and developing!