ISVforce Guide

ISVforce Guide: Build and Distribute AppExchange Solutions
Release Notes
Get Ready to Distribute on AppExchange
Use Managed Packages to Develop Your AppExchange Solution
Why Switch to Second-Generation Managed Packaging?
First-Generation Managed Packages
Design Your AppExchange Solution
Pass the AppExchange Security Review
Publish Your Solution on AppExchange
Sell on AppExchange with Checkout
Monitor Performance with Analytics for AppExchange Partners
Report Orders to Salesforce with the Channel Order App
Manage Licenses for Managed Packages
Manage Features in First-Generation Managed Packages
Provide Free Trials of Your AppExchange Solution
User License Guides for Salesforce Partners
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Use Managed Packages to Develop Your AppExchange Solution

Managed packages are the tool that Salesforce partners use to create business apps, and distribute their apps to customers via AppExchange. The suite of capabilities offered by managed packages helps you distribute, license, pilot features, troubleshoot, and monetize your offerings.

A package is a container for an app that you plan to sell and distribute to Salesforce customers. You create a package, then add the features, customizations, and schema that comprise your app. Examples of metadata components you might package are:

  • Apex classes and triggers
  • Custom fields on standard objects
  • Custom metadata types
  • Custom objects
  • Flows
  • Lightning pages
  • Page layouts

Your package can include many different metadata components, or you can package a single component, such as a flow.

Salesforce offers second-generation managed packaging (managed 2GP) and first-generation managed packaging (managed 1GP). Going forward we recommend that everyone use managed 2GPs to create new apps. Here are more details about the advantages of using of second-generation managed packaging to build your app.