# What is the difference between the Sandbox and Production environments?

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# What is the difference between the Sandbox and Production environments?

Understand how Sandbox and Production environments differ so you can test safely before you go live.

The sandbox environment is available so that the partner has an environment where they can carry out tests and simulate operations at project time, and before go-live. Therefore, there are no technical differences between environments, except for the data source.