Are you looking to try SAP Build Apps as an individual user?

You can use the Free tier model available on SAP Business Technology Platform to test and evaluate if the no-code app builder is the right choice for you or your company.
The free tier option includes the front-end capabilities to build beautiful UIs in drag-and-drop fashion using a large library of customizable components, logic flows, and formulas for data transformation.
It also enables the creation of no-code application backends using the built-in cloud functions.
For details and possible restrictions, please refer to the Service Guide. 

See how you can subscribe to SAP Build Apps with your individual access: 

To summarize, when starting from scratch there are 5 steps to use SAP Build Apps on free tier: 

1. Order SAP BTP Pay-As-You-Go account 

As a first step we’ll create an individual SAP Store account.
Go to the pricing information and click the ‘start now’ button in the Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) for SAP BTP model.
Fill out the registration form. After you’ve successfully registered at the SAP Store, you now need to verify your contact details. You will find an e-mail in your email account asking you to ‘activate your account‘. The ‘continue‘ button will take you back to the store and you’ll be logged in using the new credentials.

Select ‘purchase as an individual‘ to create a global account on SAP BTP with free tier service plans. See here for details and possible restrictions.
(The registration flow offers you the option to register on behalf of your employer but there’s more steps to that process and that’s not what we’re going to focus on in this walk through.)

Fill out the address form, configure your solution and go to ‘check out‘
Please note: you are asked to enter your credit card details, such as card holder name, card number, and expiration date. 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.

The verification of your order might take a while, you’ll receive an email with the confirmation and your credentials. 

2. Create a subaccount 

Use the access URL from the confirmation email to log into the SAP BTP Cockpit with your newly created global account.
In the cockpit, under ‘account explorer’ create a new sub account: Look for the SAP Build Apps booster and click on ‘start’.
On the second step, select ‘create subaccount’. Follow the next steps until finished. 

To run the booster successfully, having a custom IAS tenant is a pre-requisite.
In case you don’t have one, the pop-up will let you know that establishing trust has failed.
Follow step 3 to configure this. 

3. Create a custom IAS tenant and establish trust 

Go to the ‘service marketplace’, find the ‘cloud identity services’ tile, click on ‘create’, select the ‘default’ plan*, the service type (either productive or test), and click ‘create’.
Once this step is done processing, it will appear as ‘subscribed’, which can take a few minutes.

You’ll receive an email confirming the activation and providing an URL to activate your admin user for this new IAS tenant.
(*Remark: the IAS default plan entitles for the option to request one productive and one test tenant free of charge). 

Now, you can jump to ‘security’ and then ‘trust configuration’.
Click on ‘establish trust’ and select the custom tenant you just created.  

4. Run the SAP Build Apps booster 

In your subaccount, go to the ‘boosters’, click on ‘start’, and on Step 2 click on ‘select subaccount’. On Step 4, select the customer IAS tenant you created previously as your ‘custom identity provider for applications’, and the booster should execute successfully.  

5. Assign roles 

Your last task is to assign a user group to your IAS tenant Admin.
For that, go to ‘services, and ‘instances and subscriptions’ in your subaccount.
Find Cloud Identity Services on the list and click on the icon ‘go to application’.  

In the new window for ‘Identity Authentication Service’, edit the final part of the URL to: ondemand.com/admin 

On the menu, go to ‘users & authorizations’, then ‘user groups’ and click on ‘create’.
Add the following details: 

Once you’ve created the group, click on ‘add’ to add users to it. Select the users and ‘save’. 

You can go back to the subaccount, under ‘services’ – ‘instances and subscriptions’ and launch SAP Build Apps. Sign in with the custom identity provider, enter your credentials, and log into the lobby. Now you can start building! 

For detailed and updated product information, and what’s new, visit the service guide on SAP Help Portal.

In case of further questions don’t hesitate to contact us or comment below this post.
Best regards,
Beatrice Pasch, Maiara Ellwanger
for SAP Build Apps PM