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Why Force.comWhy Force.com
Find out why Force.com is the leading platform for cloud appsWhat is Force.com?
Force.com is the leading cloud platform for social and mobile enterprise apps.
Why Force.com?With Force.com you can quickly build apps on the most trusted, proven cloud app platform and deliver innovation to the business.
How do you get started?You can start building apps on Force.com today.
Here are just a few of the 100,000+ companies using Force.com
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PartnersPartners
Join 3,000+ successful partnersAppExchange partnersBuild a successful business and generate recurring revenue. With no start-up costs, you can go from concept to profitability in record time.
Consulting partnersHelp companies of all sizes implement and build social and mobile apps that quickly deliver real value. You can even resell Force.com technologies for additional revenue.
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AppExchangeAppExchange
Find apps for every department and industry1,500,000+INSTALLS &
COUNTINGBrowse solutions for everything from collaboration to data analysis to finance to human resources.Instantly install 1,700+ apps that can extend your success, or find consulting partners and developers to support custom solutions.
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Featured apps
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ITIL incident management, self service, inventory and change management, and problem management for IT.
FinancialForce Accounting
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From billing to reporting, FinancialForce delivers an end-to-end solution for your back office.
Jobscience Recruiting
App by Jobscience
Create job orders, advertise them on your site’s branded job search page, and match candidates to openings fast.
TaskRay
App by Bracket Labs
Collaborate easily and manage resources with a shared to-do list for you and your team.
Have questions about the Force.com trial? Ask them here.
The Force.com trial is a way for you to try out our platform-as-a-service offering free for 60 days.
The trial includes the following:
- Offline
- 1GB data storage
- API access
- Chatter
- Force.com code (Apex) and Force.com pages (Visualforce)
- Full use of accounts and contacts
- Read, create access to ideas
- Membership in our Developer Force community
- 20 Force.com licenses
- 5,000 Chatter Free licenses
- 1 development sandbox
- 1 Force.com site with up to 500,000 page views per month
- 100 authenticated site users (via the platform portal)
- Content
- Visual Workflow
- Mobile
How long is the Force.com trial?
60 days
Is the API turned on for the Force.com trial?
Yes. Developers have access to the SOAP web services and REST APIs.
Does the Force.com trial include advanced functionality such as Force.com code, Force.com pages, and Force.com sites?
Yes. The trial allows you to develop using Force.com code, pages, and sites. Development with Force.com code requires a sandbox development environment (included in your trial) so that you can build and test the code before deploying it in your production environment.
What applications can I run on Force.com?
You can build and run any custom app for any department of your business. Or you can run 3rd-party packaged applications available on the AppExchange.
How do I access the developer site?
Use the same username and password to access Developer Force as you do to access your trial.
What if I need to extend my trial?
Contact Sales directly to request an extension.
Can I add more users to my Force.com trial?
Yes. Please contact Sales directly to request additional users during your trial period.
How do I get a custom domain for the site that I'm building?
You need to upgrade to a paid subscription to use a custom domain name. This feature is not enabled for trials.
What is not included in the Force.com trial?
Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Jigsaw, and Remedyforce are not included in the trial.
Is the trial available internationally?
The trial is currently available in North America only. People outside of North America can sign up for the North American Force.com trial from the U.S. website. Rollout to other countries will occur shortly.
Can I deploy apps from the AppExchange in my Force.com trial?
Yes.
How is the Force.com trial different from Developer Edition?
Developer Edition is a free personal development environment. It includes all salesforce.com products and preview features of future versions of the products. Every Force.com developer should have a Developer Edition account for personal development activities.
Unlike the Force.com trial, Developer Edition is not designed to deploy production applications. A Developer Edition account cannot be converted to a production account.
The Force.com trial is a free account that expires in 60 days if you do not convert to a paid subscription.
| Force.com Trial | Force.com Developer Edition | |
| App development/deployment | ||
| Force.com development | Yes | Yes |
| Force.com deployment | Yes | No |
| Upgradeable? | Yes | No |
| Products and features included | ||
| Sales Cloud | No | Yes |
| Service Cloud | No | Yes |
| Jigsaw | No | Yes |
| Mobile platform | Yes | Yes |
| Customer portal | No | Yes |
| Partner portal | No | Yes |
| Developer Preview features | No | Yes |
| Capacity limits | ||
| Users | 20 | 2 |
| Storage | 1GB | 2MB |
| Developer sandbox | 1 | NA |
Why is the Force.com trial for 60 days, instead of 30 days like the Sales Cloud trial?
With Sales Cloud, the app is already built. Force.com developers must both build and deploy the app. We want to give you more time to build and deploy your app so that you can better evaluate the platform.