Trial SaaS applications from listings¶

Some Snowflake Marketplace listings offer an Integrated SaaS delivery method. An Integrated SaaS listing lets you start a free trial of a provider’s SaaS application directly from the listing page. When you start a trial, Snowflake creates a database, warehouse, system user, and system role in your account that the provider uses to read or ingest the data that you authorize.

To find applications that you can trial, browse the Snowflake Marketplace for the Integrated SaaS applications category, and then apply the Free to Try or Instantly accessible filters.

Because the provider’s application is a Snowflake Marketplace listing, you can return to it at any time. The same listing serves as a single place to discover the provider’s data products, start a trial, and purchase the data product, including the ability to draw down on your Snowflake capacity commitment with Snowflake Marketplace Capacity Drawdown.

Requirements¶

To start an Integrated SaaS trial, you must meet the following requirements:

• You must use the ACCOUNTADMIN role, or a custom role with the privileges required to create the objects listed in the trial dialog (such as a database, warehouse, user, and role). To switch to the account administrator role, in the lower-left corner, select your name » Switch role » ACCOUNTADMIN.

• You must have a verified email address in Snowflake. To verify your email address:

  Snowsight:

  In some cases, you automatically receive an email prompting you to Please Validate Your Email. If you didn’t, follow these steps to verify your email address:

  1. sign in to Snowsight.

  2. in the lower-left corner, select your name » Settings.

  3. In My Profile, configure your email address:

     • If you don’t have an email address listed, enter an email address in the Email field, and then select Save.
     • If you can’t enter an email address, an account administrator must either add an email address on your behalf or grant your user the role with the OWNERSHIP privilege on your user.
     • If you didn’t receive an email, select Resend verification email. Snowflake sends a verification email to the address listed.

  4. Open your email, and then select the link in the email to validate your email address.

Start a SaaS trial¶

To trial a SaaS application from a listing:

1. Sign in to Snowsight.

2. In the navigation menu, select Marketplace » Snowflake Marketplace, and then search for the listing that you want to trial.

3. Open the listing, and then select Start free trial in the upper right.

   To learn what the trial includes before starting, select the Your free trial tab on the listing page. The Free trial card describes the trial terms, and the What to expect card summarizes the Snowflake objects that will be created and the next steps with the provider.

4. In the Connect to provider to start your trial dialog (where provider is the name of the provider that owns the listing), review the following information:

   • The information that will be shared with the provider: your first name, last name, and email address.
   • The Snowflake objects that will be created in your account, named based on the provider. For details, see Objects created for the application.
   • The privileges that will be granted to the system role, and the role hierarchy that will be set up. The PUBLIC role is granted to the new role, and the new role is granted to the SYSADMIN role so that account administrators can manage the trial.
   • Any optional grants that the listing requests. To review them, expand Optional Grant, and then select the grants that you want to authorize.
   • The legal terms for connecting to the provider.

5. Select Connect to provider.

   Snowflake creates the listed objects in your account, and then redirects you to the provider’s site to finish activating your trial account.

After your trial is active, querying data and using the warehouse incurs standard Snowflake compute charges, but you aren’t charged for the listing during the trial period.

Objects created for the application¶

During the connection process, the following Snowflake objects for the provider’s application are created in your account. Each object name uses a PC_ prefix followed by the provider’s ID in uppercase, shown here as <PROVIDER>. For example, for the provider fivetran, the database is named PC_FIVETRAN_DB.

Automated application features and resource usage¶

Provider applications might include automated features, such as dashboards that run on a schedule and consume compute resources. We encourage you to read the product documentation for the application and to monitor usage of the PC_<PROVIDER>_WH warehouse to avoid unexpected Snowflake credit usage by the application.

Add provider IP addresses to network policies¶

If you use a network policy to restrict access to your Snowflake account based on user IP address, provider applications can’t access your account unless you add the provider’s IP addresses to the list of allowed IP addresses in the network policy. For detailed instructions, see Modify a network policy.

The following table lists the IP addresses to add for each provider (if available and supported) or provides links to pages on the provider sites for this information:

Launch the application¶

After your trial is active, open the provider’s application from the provider’s site to begin using it. Because the application remains a Snowflake Marketplace listing, you can return to the listing at any time to manage your trial, discover related data products, or purchase the data product.

Stop a trial¶

If you decide to discontinue a trial for any reason, complete the following steps:

1. Sign in to Snowsight.

2. To switch to the account administrator role, in the lower-left corner, select your name » Switch role » ACCOUNTADMIN.

3. Open a new worksheet in Snowsight and run the following command to remove the connection:

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   select system$remove_etl_integration('<partner_id>');
   

   Replace <partner_id> with the provider’s ID, which is the same ID used to name the objects that were created for the trial (for example, fivetran).

   This command automatically drops the database, warehouse, system user, and role that were created for the trial, so you don’t need to drop those objects manually.

4. If the trial does not expire on its own, contact the provider to end your participation in the trial.

Troubleshooting¶

A trial already exists¶

If a trial for the listing is already active in your account, the dialog displays a notice indicating that you must contact the provider directly for more information. Only one active trial per listing is supported in an account.

Starting a trial can also fail with a message that a connection already exists in either of the following cases:

• Your account previously trialed the listing. Because removing a connection doesn’t remove the Snowflake Marketplace trial record, you can’t start a new trial of the same listing on an account that has already trialed it. To trial the listing again, use a different account or contact the provider.
• Your organization already has an account with the provider, initiated either with the provider directly or on another one of your Snowflake accounts. In this case, the trial for this account must be initiated directly through the provider.