Getting Started

Let’s get you started

This quick start helps familiarize you with the product and get started.

Quick Start Milestones

The following diagram depicts the quick start milestones.

Free Forever Edition (FFE)

Software AG offers webMethods.io Developer Portal in a Free Forever (FFE) edition for you to gain unlimited access to the key capabilities of Developer Portal at no cost for however long you want to use. You can explore the free version of our product before upgrading to a paid plan for additional benefits. For comparison of all available editions, see the Pricing page on Software AG Cloud portal. For subscribing to a paid edition, contact Software AG.

FFE limitation

The table lists the maximum number of assets that you can host in your Developer Portal FFE tenant for each asset type:


Asset type Maximum number
APIs 10
Packages 5
Users 10
Applications 20
Custom assets 5

An error message appears when you exceed the restricted quantity.

FFE tenant version upgrades

Your FFE tenant is automatically upgraded to the latest fix whenever it releases. You can check the version of your tenant in the About page. For details on the readme, go to the Docs website, choose webMethods.io Developer Portal and select Release Readme. The Release readme page contains information about the latest major release and its fixes.

Sign up for Free Forever Edition

Sign up using Software AG Cloud portal. Ensure to read the Free Edition Cloud Services Agreement when you sign up.

To customize your Free Forever tenant name, sign up using the advanced form provided in Software AG Cloud portal.

Setting up the FFE tenant takes a few minutes and minimal steps. Software AG sends an e-mail to your registered e-mail address with the tenant details. Open the URL provided to you in the e-mail and login using the username and password that you provided during sign-up.

Now that you have logged on to the webMethods.io Developer Portal tenant, you can start using Developer Portal.

Software AG provisions webMethods.io Developer Portal in Software AG Cloud platform. You can also explore other Software AG products from the Software AG MyCloud page.

Next steps...

Now that you have registered and logged on to your Developer Portal tenant, you can now: