PayPal sandbox button goes to My Account Summary - paypal

Here's my problem. I've tried being logged into my Developer Account with PayPal, but every time I test the button I made in Sandbox I just get redirected as follows and can't complete the test transaction:
Using my details (obviously I've replaced my details with fake ones here).
I go to my test site and click on the button I created in Sandbox mode:
Which takes me here. I use the buyer sandbox email to login.
Then, no matter what I do, I end up here with an incomplete transaction.
I've been going around in circles, clearing caches, cookies, going incognito but can't make it work! Any help would be greatly appreciated!

We had a known issue at PayPal's end which is causing this issue. The engineering team is working on this issue for a fix. No ETA at the moment. Will update here once the issue gets fixed.

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Getting this error when using sandbox:
Sandbox error message:
"PayPal cannot process this transaction because of a problem with the seller's website. Please contact the seller directly to resolve this problem."
We use a custom ColdFusion shopping cart for our ecommerce site. The form we use works fine for our live, actual payment to PayPal. However, when we add the sandbox part of the URL for testing, we receive the following error message from PayPal:
“PayPal cannot process this transaction because of a problem with the seller's website. Please contact the seller directly to resolve this problem.”
I have both the personal and business accounts set up on the developer sites and am using the business account on sandbox form.. That seemed to go okay But that’s as far as I got. Once that was done there was no guide I could find to suggest what to do next.
I’ve checked my developer account activity and history and there is none.
I continue to get this error also: “We’re sorry, but something went wrong. Please try again.” It’s at this URL:
https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/applications/myapps
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At the URL above, the forum suggestion stated: “ .. click the link for sandbox accounts on the left” of the Applications Tab. But there is nothing there indicating “sandbox account” on the left side or anywhere.
I’d really like to see an example of a sandbox paypal form. There is a suggestion that this be used:
I have no idea how that should be incorporated. The question mark suggests a url, but where, in the form POST. Again, and example might clear all this up. Can’t find one. Or like this:
https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?business=staff#domain.com.
I guess I need to “create a preconfigured test seller account.” But where? How? Just a big circle.
I’ve read other examples from others here in this forum but the suggestions don’t always seem to match up with the actual page, perhaps paypay developer site changed. So confusing. Round and round.
Obviously, everything else is working so we have the correct setup to charge but something must be wrong with the sandbox account. We have both business and personal accounts set up but the error remains. I’ve spent two hours researching but cannot find a clue to what the problem may be. The massive amount of data on PayPal is no help I’ve yet been able to find.
We’d use the standard Buy Now buttons but they have built in payment amounts. Our payment amounts change dynamically so we need to use a variable in the form of the payment amount so that’s why we decided to use a custom form.
I would ask that someone point me to an example of the basic html form looks like and the requirements of that form (allowing custom price amounts based on a variable amount) to send to PayPal sandbox. I imagine it’s not the form but something else because we must have that form correct or it would not work when sending an actual charge (with the sandbox of the form post removed).
So, more importantly, what might be wrong in the sandbox developer setup? There seems to be no way to test the accuracy of the setup on PayPal developer site, unless I’ve missed it somewhere. I’m a ColdFusion programmer and developer but this is too confusing. Obviously I’m not that great of a programmer.
Here is a sample of the redirect to Sandbox.PayPal.com:
https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=staff#domain.com
You were just missing the cmd variable and value. You can pop your amount value in there and the item_name. If you want to see the actual HTML form I can drop one in here for you.
Here is a list of variables for PayPal Standard you can use:
https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/paypal-payments-standard/integration-guide/wp_standard_overview/
To create a Sandbox account you'll need to sign into Developer.PayPal.com, click on "Applications", then go to the "Sandbox accounts" section. You can create a new account there.

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Anyone got any idea?
I solved this issue after deleting test accounts from developer.paypal.com and creating new test accounts....
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I used PayPal integration wizard to generate the code and then amended it accordingly. Any advice would be greatly appreciated as it's doing my head in!
I have seen this issue occur several times lately, as well as reported by a few of my customers. While I can't provide a definitive solution, I have had success with one or more of the following:
Clear the browser cacher. Shutdown and restart the browser.
Login to standard PayPal site, logout and restart browser.
Try a different browser to help identify whether there is something going on with that specific browser.
Switch between sandbox, live, and back to sandbox mode. This may require a repeat of step #1.
Contact Paypal customer support.
I typically resolve the problem before getting to #4, hopefully you will as well. Best of luck!

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This question is not basic so that means i have read some paypal documentation about this.
I have attached an image. The problem is that i make a Paypal subscription and while its active and stating that the next payment should be done next day, it doesn't happen, what could be the problem? BTW I am using the sandbox
The sandbox tends to get delayed sometimes, and payments don't occur exactly when they should. The production server doesn't have this issue, usually, but it can happen.
From what I can see you've got it setup correctly so it's just a matter of their system kicking in and processing it accordingly. Not a lot you can do it about it other than wait.
You could post a ticket to www.paypal.com/mts, but by the time they respond the payment will probably go through.
You could also call their tech support line, which you can find by logging in to your PayPal account, click Contact Us, then by Phone, and it will give you separate numbers for general and technical support. You can let them know what's going on and they may be able to find what's causing the delay and get it fixed.