Introduction
In the past, it was a challenging task for the companies to operate internationally, but, inventions in technology have cleared this hindrance. Now any company from anywhere in the world can serve customers effectively within a time frame. Software is playing an essential role in serving the customers timely with better products and services.
Competition is overgrowing day by day, and if you are not fast enough to employ new technologies, then it is quite challenging to sustain in this highly competitive world. Netsuite is a CRM technology which gives you complete assistance for all your business needs. In this blog, we are going to discuss NetSuite Sandbox.
What is NetSuite?
Netsuite is a business vendor technology company that operates from California. It provides a wide range of products which includes Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Omni Channel Commerce, Financial management, e-commerce, and Professional services automation (PSA).
The targeting market of the NetSuite is small to mid-sized business and concentrates on Business-to-customer (B2C), and business-to-business (B2B) support. Netsuite even caters to the needs of the large enterprises. Netsuite applications are available on both Desktop as well as on mobile platforms. The subscription price of the NetSuite varies based on various factors such as license, amount of users, company size, length of use and tools.
Companies all over the world are migrating to Netsuite because it acts as a one-stop solution for all their business needs. Netsuite enables the organizations in lowering the operating costs and improves the process to reach the end customer needs.
What is Sandbox?
A Sandbox acts as a testing environment for the newly developed processor programme, before moving it to the live mode. It enables the developers in knowing the loopholes or bucks that are associated with the newly developed processor programmes before it gets affected the real-time production.
A Sandbox environment creates a duplicate production environment in which you can execute, operate, and test the process without affecting the real-time production function. Sandbox is also used as a technique to check the security of data to ensure that the file containing malicious code or to detect the software failure.
What is Sandbox account in Netsuite?
Netsuite offers a product to its customers called NetSuite Sandbox, and it acts as a copy of the companies data on another server. When you are done with the buying process of the NetSuite sandbox, the next thing that you need to do is request the Refresh sandbox account. It helps organizations in creating a copy of the database at the time of the request. This whole process takes 1-2 business days to complete. You have access to a limited number of Refresh accounts from Netsuite. If you want to have more, you need to pay for that.
Sandbox helps organizations in developing the customizations, workflows using suite flow, or Java scripting models using Suite script, or any other portion of their NetSuite system. Sandbox is the best tool to train new employees without making any changes to the real-time process.
Types of Sandbox accounts:
Netsuite offers two different types of Sandbox accounts Which are Development account, and the other one is a premium account.
1.Netsuite Development account:
The development account has the same features as what your production account has. But the significant difference is that it doesn’t have the organization data or customizations. It works best when you want to outsource or let outsiders help you in developing customizations. This will never expose your confidential data to them.
2. Netsuite Premium Sandbox:
The standard Sandbox is suitable for the organizations who use it for an end to end testing or only for the limited. The standard Sandbox is unable to cope up with the process if the complexities and transactions are high. Here is the situation where NetSuite premium comes into the picture.
Premium sandbox account is designed and developed to cater to the needs of the large enterprises whose volumes of data and complexity is high. The premium account is capable of replicating your customizations, data and configurations as well. Premium sandbox is even capable of refreshing the data at any point in time.
Key features of Netsuite Premium Sandbox:
- It is capable of handling the data and the transaction which is vast in nature.
- It acts as a tester by paying close attention to your production environment.
- It acts as a tester by paying close attention to your production environment.
- It acts as a tester by paying close attention to your production environment.
- Premium sandbox is suitable for testing the data flows and business process customizations in an isolated environment.
- It tests the long-running customizations with the help and moves that into the production process with the help of SuiteBundler.
- Premium account is suitable for testing new and existing projects as well as training new and existing employees.
- It contains the same data and features of what production account has.
Sandbox sub account types:
Every Sandbox account we purchase will have three different sub-accounts which are used for specific tasks. These accounts are also known as development accounts. Let’s discuss about each account in detail.
1. Development account:
Using this account type, you can perform the activities such as basic suite script, testing, and SuiteFlow customization building. It does not require customer data to execute the process.
2. Single Sandbox Account:
It suits for the organizations whoever wants to customize with Suite FLow or Suite Script.
3. Multiple Sandboxes
It works for the organizations who build the large suite scripts for the large projects which are complex and works parallel. Will these types of sandboxes allows the developers to customize the applications with separate data sets and in testing the customized apps on their own.
How to Grant the Sandbox access for individual users?
Below stated is the simple process that one needs to follow in granting access to the individual user or to the particular person you want to give access.
- Log in to the administrator role by clicking on the below-mentioned link: https://system.sandbox.netsuite.com/pages/customerlogin.jsp
- Select the lists → employees → and click on the employee record.
- In the employee, record TAB click on grant access and specify the details asked over there.
- Save the changes that you have made to the sandbox account. Now the particular person whom you have given access is now able to log into the sandbox.
The process to remove the access for an individual:
It is quite similar to giving access, but few things make a difference, so let’s outline those steps below.
- Login to your sandbox account with by clicking on https://system.sandbox.netsuite.com/pages/customerlogin.jsp
- Select the lists → employees → and click on the employee record.
- In the employee, record TAB click on remove access and specify the details asked over there.
- Save the changes that you have made to the sandbox account. Now the particular person whom you have disabled access can no longer access to your sandbox.
Netsuite Sandbox Key Features:
- It contains a copy of the information which includes the organization customizations and the company data.
- The complete information is stored and managed in the Netsuite environment.
- It creates an environment where you can do experiments, test, develop, and train employees.
- In general, we get two access after sandbox refresh among these two one is “all users except customer centre roles” and the other is “Administrators only”.
Conclusion
It is quite essential to use technology in this competitive world to acquire and retain customers. Customers retain and make repurchases when they are satisfied with the products and services that we offer to them. Netsuite provides the solutions that you need to serve your customers better. Netsuite Sandbox is such a great product which helps you to experiment with as many things as possible without affecting the process. It builds confidence in you for developing new processes and sending them to live production with utmost confidence.
Author Bio
Santosh is working as a Content contributor for KBS Training. He has a great understanding of today’s technology and statistical analysis environment, which includes key aspects such as analysis of variance and software. He is well aware of various technologies such as Python, SAS, RPA, Artificial Intelligence, Automation Anywhere, NetSuite, Business Intelligence, AltrYX etc.
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