Card-free sandbox builds
A sandbox build used to stop at the card step when the test person had no card on file, which in sandbox is always. Sandbox places nothing and charges nothing, so the card guarded nothing there. It is gone.
What changed
- No card in sandbox. A sandbox build for a test person runs straight through to a priced cart. Confirming it is simulated: nothing is placed and nobody is charged.
- Its own daily allowance. Each application gets a sandbox build allowance, 50 a day unless we have raised it for you, resetting at midnight UTC. It is separate from your production no-card allowance, and the two never draw on each other.
- A clear stop. When the day's sandbox builds are spent, the next build is refused with a message that says so: "You have reached today's sandbox build limit of 50. It resets at midnight UTC. To raise it, open Usage in your Layout developer console."
The Usage page
A new Usage page in the console shows, for each environment:
- today's builds against the daily allowance, as a meter,
- builds today, this month and all time, and how many were placed.
Production shows its meter once your application is approved. Request a higher limit sends us a request with an optional target and a note. Asking twice before we answer tells you a request is already open rather than filing another.
What to do
Nothing. If you were waiting on us to enable no-card builds before you could test, you can build in sandbox now.
Breaking changes
None. Production builds are unchanged.