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title: "Environment Settings"
url: https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/getting-started/set-up-a-catalyst-project/environment-settings/
description: "Catalyst settings allow you to configure, personalize, and set up features that are relevant to your Catalyst project and your console, from adding collaborators for your project to managing payments and billing for your account."
last_updated: 2026-08-28T06:26:16Z
service: All Services
type: general
---

# Environment Settings

### Introduction

Catalyst provides two work environments in the Catalyst web console for developing your applications:

1. **Development:** Enables you to create, configure, test, and host Catalyst features and components
in a local development mode, similar to a sandbox
2. **Production:** Live mode that is accessible to the end users of your application, when you deploy
your application from the Development environment

You can learn about the Catalyst environments in detail from the
[**Environments help page**](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/deployment-and-billing/environments/introduction/).

The _Environments_ section in settings provides you environment-specific information about your project, and also
enables you to perform deployments between both the environments.

![catalyst_console_environments_1](https://catalyst-docs-development.zohostratus.in/images/getting-started/set-up-a-catalyst-project/catalyst_console_environments_1.webp)

The permissions to access the production environment, enable or disable production for a Catalyst application, and perform deployments is granted to a project member [based on their profile](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/getting-started/set-up-a-catalyst-project/profiles-and-permissions/#permissions). An admin of a Catalyst account has these permissions by default.

### General Tab

The following environment-specific information about your project is displayed under the _General_ tab:

* **ZAID**: The unique identifier that maps an application to a project. The ZAID is different in the Development and Production environments of a project.
* **API Key:** An authentication key for the API Gateway feature, that is common for the Development environment of all your projects, but different for the Production environments of each project. You can learn more about it from the [API Gateway help page](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/cloud-scale/help/api-gateway/key-concepts/#authentication-request-processor).
* **Application URL:** The default URL of your Catalyst application that is automatically generated when you host a web client in your Catalyst project. The URL is generated for the Development environment when you host your application. After you deploy your application to Production, a Production URL is generated. The Development and Production URLs slightly differ in their formats. Both URLs contain the same:

   * **Project Domain Name:** The unique domain name that is generated for your project when you host it in [Web Client Hosting](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/cloud-scale/help/web-client-hosting/implementation/#host-a-web-application). Example: _shipmenttracking-57673975_.

   * **Domain Name:** The domain for all the Catalyst applications you host, which is**catalystserverless.com**. However, the Development web app URL also contains the **environment type**, and its value is `development`. For example, '_https://shipmenttracking-57673975.**development**.catalystserverless.com_'.
    
    The environment type is not specified in the Production URL. That is, the production URL will be '_https://shipmenttracking-57673975.catalystserverless.com_'.

### Deployments Tab

The _Deployments_ tab in the _Environments_ settings enables you to deploy your Catalyst project from one environment to the other, and manage the deployments.

![catalyst_console_environments_2](https://catalyst-docs-development.zohostratus.in/images/getting-started/set-up-a-catalyst-project/catalyst_console_environments_2.webp)

You can learn about deploying your project in detail from the [Environments help page](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/deployment-and-billing/environments/introduction/).