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Use of the API and Salesforce.com Professional Version
Does anyone know a way around the restriction of Salesforce.com's requirement to use enterprise edition in order to use the API?
My customers have professional edition and don't want to upgrade to enterprise yet they want to merge functionality with other premise based systems which requires the API.
Is there a way to turn on the API with professional API?
Any work arounds?
Thanks!
My customers have professional edition and don't want to upgrade to enterprise yet they want to merge functionality with other premise based systems which requires the API.
Is there a way to turn on the API with professional API?
Any work arounds?
Thanks!
Hope this helps.
How do i as an application developer go about this? Who do i talk to, so that my individual clients do not have to go through the process? i am willing to pay on their behalf.
You can sign up to be a Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partner here - http://www.salesforce.com/partners/isv/
or an Consultant Partner here - http://www.salesforce.com/partners/si/
As an ISV partner you can publish your applications using AppExchange.
Applications can be private with no security review required. These apps can run on Developer, Enterprise, and Unlimited Editions.
You can submit your app for a security review. The cost is $300 with an annual renewal fee. Once you app is approved, you can request a "key" that allows your app to run on any edition of salesforce.com. You can keep the app private or publish it on AppExchange.
There also is a program where your apps are free, and therefore incur no fee for the security review. But you provide a percentage of your net revenue to salesforce.com.
Details on all of this are available starting with the link above.
PE and GE orgs. based on this doc: https://help.salesforce.com/HTViewSolution?id=000005140&language=en_US
My questions beased on this:
1. If this is still correct rule that each app which wants to use REST API and access PE and GE orgs. need to pass security review? Also based on this doc:http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/packagingGuide/index_Left.htm#StartTopic=Content/dev_packages_api_access.htm
2. Can our application pass security review and not be part of the Software Vendor or Consultant Partner program? In other words if this is requarament?
3. How much it costs to pass security review?