Company Environment Types (Production / Test / Development)

Chain.io allows you to create separate companies for testing and development purposes.  You can set each company's environment type from the Company Profile page within Settings.  

There are three environment types:

• Production - Use this for your normal day-to-day data processing
• Test - Use this for testing flows with your external workspaces like customers, suppliers, and other software packages
• Development - Use this as an experimental environment when coding custom interfaces to Chain.io or when working with the Chain.io development team to build a new interface.

Best Practice:

Once you start building flows within a company, do not change the environment type.  Instead, create a company for each environment type you need and then redeploy flows with matching configurations.  This makes sure you're always using connections connected to the right external systems.