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Sandbox tier — try SGEN with a real working site

May 15, 2026. Sandbox is now the official trial tier for SGEN. Sign up, build a working site on real content, see what the platform does. When ready, upgrade to any paid plan and your site comes with you.

What Sandbox gives you

A real site on the SGEN platform — not a demo, not a sandbox preview with watermarks. The Sandbox tier includes the same fourteen customer-facing features that ship in every paid plan above it:

  • Site creation + admin dashboard
  • The SG-Builder visual editor
  • Forms with submission storage + email notifications
  • Custom Fields and Custom Objects for your own data shapes
  • Blog + categories + tags
  • Media library with image optimization
  • Fast public-site rendering
  • Site backups + restore
  • Redirects + 404 monitoring
  • SEO settings + sitemap generation
  • Tracking consent controls
  • Phone tap analytics
  • Webhook integration destinations
  • Audit-log activity feed

Build with all fourteen during the trial. Nothing is greyed out. Nothing says "upgrade to use this."

The trial restrictions

Sandbox is administered by SGEN — the trial restrictions cover:

  • Time — your trial window is set when you sign up.
  • Scope — single site, single staging/live pair, no client-account routing.
  • Domain — your site renders on a SGEN-hosted subdomain during the trial. Custom domain is a paid-plan move.

These limits keep the trial honest as an evaluation surface. None of them change the feature behavior — they only affect distribution.

How the upgrade works

When the trial ends or when you decide to commit, the move to a paid plan is one click:

  1. Open Account → Billing → Change Plan.
  2. Pick the tier that matches your site profile (Starter, Growth, Pro, Scale, Enterprise).
  3. Enter payment details.
  4. Save.

What carries over:

  • Your site (every page, every post, every media asset, every form, every integration)
  • Your design (theme, custom CSS, builder layouts)
  • Your data (forms submissions, custom object rows, blog drafts)
  • Your users (admin accounts and any roles you set up)
  • Your settings (SEO config, tracking, redirects, integrations)

What changes:

  • Billing — you're now on a paid tier
  • SLA — paid tiers carry support response commitments
  • Domain — if you bought a custom domain during the upgrade, the public site moves to that domain
  • Limits — disk, bandwidth, and concurrent-edit limits change per tier

No rebuild. No content export-import. No CSS rewrite. The site that worked in Sandbox is the site that ships in production.

Why this matters

Most platforms make you choose: pay first and discover the product, or use a stripped-down preview that doesn't reflect the real platform. Sandbox refuses that trade-off — you get a real working site, with the real feature set, for the duration of the trial.

The reason this works is that the trial site is a real site. There's no separate "demo" experience that's different from what paying customers use. Sign up, build, evaluate — what you experience in Sandbox is what you keep when you upgrade.

Common patterns

A few ways teams use Sandbox in practice:

  • A solo founder evaluating SGEN against WordPress sets up a real product page, a contact form, a blog with three posts, and a tracking-consent banner. Two hours of work tells them whether SGEN's feature set covers what they're paying WordPress + 8 plugins to do.
  • An agency vetting SGEN for client work builds a representative client site in Sandbox — header / footer / 6 pages / 2 forms / a blog with categories. They show the working site to the client before committing to a paid agency account.
  • A migration evaluator rebuilds a section of an existing site in Sandbox to test how SGEN handles their content shape — custom fields, media library size, redirects from old URLs. The migration plan emerges from the rebuild, not from a checklist.

All three convert to paid plans without rebuilding. The Sandbox site is the production site.

What's not in Sandbox

A few capabilities require a paid tier from the start:

  • Custom domain. Sandbox sites live on a SGEN subdomain. Upgrade to Starter or higher for custom domain.
  • Multiple sites. Sandbox is single-site. Growth tier and above unlock multi-site management.
  • Client management. Agencies need the Pro tier for client-account routing.
  • Enterprise SLA. Sandbox carries the community-support SLA. Paid tiers carry tier-specific response commitments.

Next steps

  • If you want to try SGEN now, the sign-up page is on the main site. Sandbox is the default tier on first sign-up.
  • If you're already on SGEN, the rest of the Highlights set walks through each major milestone that shipped — SGEN launching, SGEN Docs going live, the documentation overhaul, and more.
  • If you're an agency, jump to Guides → Multi Sites when that L1 lands (currently in flight). In the meantime, contact sales for early access to the Pro tier.
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