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Subscriber Org

Any org, sandbox or production, that has a managed or unlocked package installed, as opposed to the org that built it.

Definition

A subscriber org is any org where a managed or unlocked package has been installed, whether a customer's production org, a partner's sandbox, or an internal team's environment receiving an in-house package. It's the counterpart to the packaging org (built from a Dev Hub), which creates and versions the package but never runs the installed product itself. For ISVs, tracking what's happening across dozens or hundreds of subscriber orgs, which package version each is on, whether an upgrade succeeded, whether a subscriber is stuck on an old version, is a real operational problem that AppExchange's native tooling only partially solves. Version skew across subscriber orgs is a common source of support tickets that turn out to simply be an outdated version. Our managed vs unmanaged packages guide covers subscriber-side considerations for both package types.

In practice

How it works in Serpent

Serpent gives ISVs subscriber org version tracking on every plan, so a team can see exactly which package version each subscriber runs and where an upgrade rollout stands, from one dashboard rather than piecing it together from support tickets. Combined with dependency-aware promotion, teams can plan and monitor upgrade paths across the whole subscriber base with confidence. See Salesforce DevOps for ISVs for the full subscriber management workflow.

Commit-to-package mapping in Serpent
Common questions

Subscriber Org, answered

Can I see which package version each subscriber org is running?
Yes. Serpent tracks subscriber org versions on every plan, so ISVs can monitor upgrade rollouts from one dashboard.

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