Salesforce providing free developer edition where you can develop force.com applications for free.


Salesforce provides many editions based on the customers needs. Each edition has their own features. Following are the paid editions providing by salesforce.

Contact Manager, Group, Professional, Enterprise and Unlimited.

In developer edition we can have access to Apex, visualforce,  the Force.com Integration APIs, Force.com sites, the database services and much more.

Following are licences available in developer edition.

– 2 Salesforce CRM licences

– 2 salesforce mobile licences

– 3 salesforce platform licences

– 5 salesforce partner licences

– 10 salesforce ccustomer portal licences

Limits of developer edition

– 5.0 MB of data storage

–  20 MB of file storage

– 5000 API requests per 24 hours perion

– Any number of applications

– A 500 MB bandwidth and 10 minute service request time limits  ( per rolling 24 hours) for force.com site applications.

Creating Salesforce developer edition account

Go to http://developer.force.com/ and click on “JOIN NOW” button then you will navigate to registration page. Fill your details, make sure that your user name should be in email format. After filling all the details click on sign me up. Then you will navigate to following page.

Next open your email and check your mailbox, you will get mail notification from salesforce, you have click that link and set your password.

Now you are in salesforce developer edition. Here you can create your own applications, you can customize standard application.
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