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Sandbox - Development Server

The Lokad services are replicated on sandbox.lokad.com (as opposed to the production website, i.e. app.lokad.com); this replication is called the Lokad Sandbox. The Lokad Sandbox is made freely available to the community for testing and/or development purposes.

Replicated subdomains

Services	Production	Sandbox
Web application	http://app.lokad.com	http://sandbox-app.lokad.com
Web Services	http://ws.lokad.com	http://sandbox-ws.lokad.com

The production subdomains have their sandbox equivalents.

Why using the Lokad sandbox?

The sandbox is actually used by the Lokad Team itself while developing add-ons for 3rd party products. Lokad is making the sandbox freely available in order to ease the development of products relying on the Lokad forecasting technology. As a developer, the sandbox represents a "free edition" of Lokad available for software development purposes.

Conditions and restrictions

The sandbox is made available for free. You can register here, and then change your subscription plan to Enterprise without being charged (*).

Yet, please be aware that

• we do not make any uptime guarantees on the sandbox server.
• the accuracy of the forecasts might be significantly lower compared to the production website.
• we may wipe out all the data of the sandbox anytime (we don't do that too often though).

(*) Actually, on the My Account panel, it will appear as if you had been charged, but your subscription plan won't be reverted to Free if you're balance gets negative.