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Data 360 in a Sandbox
A sandbox is a copy of your Salesforce org that you can use for development, testing, and training without compromising the data and applications in your production org. Data 360 supports all the sandbox types: Developer, Developer Pro, Partial Copy, and Full Copy. Data 360 sandboxes contain only metadata. No data is replicated when you provision Data 360 in a sandbox, even in partial copy and full copy sandboxes.
Use a sandbox to:
- Test changes against copies of your production data and users.
- Provide a training environment.
- Test AppExchange packages or integrations.
- Isolate customization and development work from your production environment until you’re ready to deploy changes.
Supported Features
When you create a sandbox, some Data 360 features aren't replicated from the production org. However, you can re-create these features in the sandbox org. If a feature is functional in a sandbox, you can create entities for the feature in the sandbox but you can't deploy the feature back to production.
The table lists the Data 360 features that you can use in a sandbox org. If you want information about how specific platforms work in a sandbox org, see Sandboxes: Staging Environments for Customizing and Testing.
- Considerations for Sandbox in Data 360
Refer to these considerations when creating a sandbox and deploying changes from a sandbox in Data 360. - Billing Considerations for Data 360 Sandbox
Using Data 360 in a sandbox impacts the consumption of credits. The billing categories in each usage type for Data 360 in a sandbox are the same as the billing categories for the production usage types. Starting June 17, 2025, usage on Data 360 sandbox orgs consumes production credits. Some features start consuming credits as soon as you activate Data 360 in a sandbox org. - Create a Data 360 Sandbox
Create a Data 360 sandbox to use for development, testing, or training without compromising the data and applications in your production org. Data 360 supports all the sandbox types: Developer, Developer Pro, Partial Copy, and Full Copy. Data 360 sandboxes contain only metadata. No data is replicated when you provision Data 360 in a sandbox, even in partial copy and full copy sandboxes. - Remove Legacy Metadata from a Data 360 Sandbox
Data 360 sandboxes configured before August 2024 may contain legacy metadata. Use the cleanup process to remove legacy metadata from the sandbox. - Deploy Data 360 Changes Across Orgs
You can make Data 360 changes in a sandbox and then deploy them to a production org or another sandbox org. You can do this by using a DevOps data kit and a change set, or the Salesforce command line interface. - Replicate Data 360 Configurations Using Local Data Kits
Move Data 360 metadata and process definitions between data spaces within the same sandbox using the local data kit deployment method. Create a standard data kit in your default data space, and then use a change set to deploy it to other data spaces. - Deploy Direct-DMO Customizations to Production with Sandbox Mergeback (Beta)
Starting in Winter '26, you can package and deploy customizations containing direct data model object (DMO) relationship metadata from sandbox to production environments.
