Get an Account on SAP BTP to Try Out Free Tier Service Plans

Start your SAP BTP journey on the “Try and Buy” page on SAP.com and choose the option that works best for you.

1. Visit the “Try and Buy” page on SAP.com.

2. Explore the pricing options.

3. Choose the most convenient plan: Either Sign Up for Pay-As-You-Go for SAP Business Technology Platform or Buy Cloud Platform Enterprise Agreement.

For existing users: If you already have an SAP account (for example, a P, S, C, D or I number or an SAP Universal ID), you can enter your account details or the associated e-mail address along with your password. Choose Continue.

For new users: Choose Register and fill in the required fields, set a password, and activate your account. You will receive an e-mail asking you to activate your account.

If you’ve created a new account, you are now asked to add details.

If there is already a company or organization associated with your account, you will be forwarded directly to Step 4.

1. Select Select a Company/Organization to create a global account on SAP BTP with free tier service plans.

   

2. Next, fill out the address form and provide the following details: Country, Company/Organization Name, Address, City, State, and Postal Code as well as Industry. This information is necessary for billing purposes for when you upgrade your account from free tier service plans to paid service plans. Confirm with Continue.

The following page offers to configure your solution. Select:

• Duration: 3 Months (default)
• Start Date: Now (you can configure the start date if required). The account renews itself automatically. You will also see the end date.
• Initial Cost: EUR 0.00

Proceed by selecting Check Out.

Carefully review your contact details. Then, you are now asked to enter your payment details. Your free tier service plans are for free. However, we need this information for authentication purposes and for billing if you decide to use standard service plans.

Proceed by selecting Continue to Checkout Review.

After you have signed up for an account, your credit card balance might show a reservation (for example, 1€ or 1$, depending on your currency) from SAP. However, this reservation will disappear after a couple of days and you won’t be charged for creating an account.

You can now review your order details. If you are happy with the result, proceed by clicking Place Order.

If your registration was successful, your screen will show you a success message “Thank You for Your Order.” Also, an order summary will be sent to the e-mail address you supplied during the registration process.

Your account is now being set up in the background. In times of high traffic, this process can take up to 2 hours. Thank you for your patience.

Your order is now being processed in the background. You are ready to go, after you have received the following 3 e-mails:

• Welcome to SAP BTP: This e-mail welcomes you to SAP BTP, informing you that the provisioning of your account is currently under way.

• Access Information: This e-mail summarizes your provided contact details and informs you that the set-up of your system has been completed.

• Your Personal Key: This e-mail provides you with your S-user which you’ve been assigned. Click the link in the e-mail to activate your account, set a password, and enter your global account.

If you have not received all your e-mails, check your spam folder.

Once you’ve set up your account, use your S-user to log in to SAP For Me to see your contract and consumption information.

You are now in your global account, to be more precise in your Account Explorer. To access the free tier service plans, you first need to create a subaccount in your global account.

1. Select Create in the upper right corner.

2. Choose Subaccount.

   

3. A window opens. In the wizard, fill out the following information for your subaccount:

   • Display Name: Choose a meaningful and unique name to identify your subaccount.

     Consider naming your subaccount ‘Free’. This way, you’ll know exactly which services are free to use.

   • Subdomain: Added automatically. The subdomain will become part of the URL for accessing applications that you subscribe to from this subaccount. The subdomain can contain only letters, digits, and hyphens (not allowed at the beginning or at the end), and must be unique across all subaccounts in the same region.

   • Region: Select the region closest to you. You can use the service catalogue in SAP Discovery Center to see which services with free tier service plans are available in each region.

     Caution: Unfortunately, Cloud Foundry Runtime is currently not available for cf-eu10 (Europe Frankfurt, Amazon Web Services).

   • Description (optional): Add an additional description to identify your subaccount.

4. Select Create.

   The creation of your subaccount might take a couple of moments. Wait until the orange loading board “Onboarding” has disappeared.

In your global account, you now need to assign entitlements before you can enable Cloud Foundry

1. In your global account, navigate to Entitlements > Entity Assignments.
2. In the Select Entities selection, choose the directory or subaccount that you want to assign entitlements to.
3. Click Go. You’ll see a table for the directory/ subaccount with all entitlements it already has.
4. Click Configure Entitlements, then select Add Service Plans. A popover appears with all entitlements available for your directory/ subaccount.
5. Select the service and then the plan you want to entitle. In the search, type in Cloud Foundry Runtime.
6. Select the plan called Free here to use the service without any costs.
7. Click Add Service Plans to exit the popover.
8. Click Save.

You now need to activate Cloud Foundry environment.

1. Go back to your subaccount by clicking on Subaccount in the navigation bar.

2. Select Cloud Foundry Environment.

3. Click on Enable Cloud Foundry.

   

4. In the opening wizard, select free as plan - any other configuration will generate costs. Keep the rest of settings as they are and proceed by clicking Create.

   

Enabling Cloud Foundry environment might take a couple of moments. Thank you for patience.

As a last step, you now need to create a space to develop in.

1. In your subaccount, stay with Overview > Cloud Foundry Environment.

2. Select Create Space.

   

3. In the opening wizard, enter a meaningful name for your space. The other fields are pre-populated.

4. Select Create.

You will receive a success message “Space created successfully.”

Congratulations! You have successfully set up your global account. Continue with Manage Entitlements Using the Cockpit and learn how to add entitlements to your newly created subaccount.