Trialforce and Test Drive
Large enterprise applications often require some consultation with customers to tune and customize to their needs after the initial package installation. If you wish to provide trial versions of your application, Salesforce provides a means to take snapshots of the results of this installation and setup process, including sample data.
You can then allow prospective users who visit your AppExchange listing, or your website to sign up to receive a personalized instance of a Salesforce org based on the snapshot you made. The potential customers can then use this to fully explore the application for a limited time, until they sign up as a paying customer. Such orgs will eventually expire when the Salesforce trial period ends ...
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