It looks like PayPal was purblind on this. After I create a test account with a credit card, PayPal provide everything but not CVV for a card. So it is not possible to test credit card payments, because PayPal requires CVV when payment is conducted with a credit card.
How may I get CVV?
You can use any CVV code on Sanbox credit cards :)
So just type in something like 997 and you're good to go.
It also stands true for expiry date, just set some date in the future.
More info can be found here: https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/vhelp/paypalmanager_help/credit_card_numbers.htm
You can go to http://www.getcreditcardnumbers.com/ to generate fake credit card numbers for testing purposes. And You can use any Expiry date (in the future) and any numeric CCV (123 works).
I got the url above from PayPal's tech support.
Or you can follow below url https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/payflow/integration-guide/
And search for cvv as well as credit card to get valid cvv and credit card numbers for paypal sandbox(test) account. Hope this help you.
The current answers are no longer true.
The latest documentation on this can be found here
It says:
Because test credit cards don't include a card verification code (CVV), you can use 123 as the CVV for Visa, MasterCard, Discover and Diners Club or 1234 as the CVV for American Express.
Use only those else the payment gets rejected.
To add a CVV number for your buyer sandbox account. You need to log in to your Buyer account. https://www.sandbox.paypal.com
After logging in you just need to scroll down a bit and to your left you will get the Heading "Banks & Cards" (For me a Visa Card was already made there as I selected card type as visa while making my buyer sandbox account in the developer dashboard.). You may even create/link a new dummy card here.
Just click on the card and then click on edit. This will let you add any random CVV number to that card. Then you can use this to test payment between your merchant and buyer sandbox accounts.
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I am using PayPal smart buttons for Payment processing, where users can pay using PayPal account or Credit/debit card.
I want to save the last four digits of Credit/Debit card entered by the user for payment in the database.
How can I get that Credit/Debit card number?
Thanks in advance.
You cannot get that information. You also cannot get information on whether or not a credit/debit card was used to pay -- some other payment method may have been used to pay. A customer's billing information is kept private to their PayPal account. All you know is that you received a PayPal payment, and this is by design.
I set up correctly the sandbox accounts (seller and buyer) long time ago, until past week everything was working good, now at test into sandbox always ask me to add a credit card, if I add the new credit card info, it shows again the same form asking to add a credit card, no error or another information is shown. If I try to test without the paypal account, using the credit card payment way, after I put the info of credit card an buyer, says credit card declined. All these data are the same I used until the previous week, and it was working well. I'm using a third part cart with checkout button (REST API)
I experienced the same thing. I think there is something wrong with Paypal sandbox environment right now (or as usual). If you want to try the payment now there is a solution.
Please see this answer on another question related to this issue.
But you can only use the credit in your account instead of credit card.
I am using Express Checkout, and when testing in sandbox, I used to fill in fake but valid credit card numbers, like those produced by this site: http://www.getcreditcardnumbers.com/
It all worked fine until recently I found that PayPal sandbox no longer accepts these numbers. The page keeps showing "The card you entered cannot be used for this payment. Please enter a different credit or debit card number."
However I did find one card number 4444333322221111 that makes PayPal sanbox show a different error: "You might already have an account, Please login." Maybe this means that PayPal does not simply reject any card number.
I also tried creating a test account in Dashboard > Sandbox > Accounts, and use the card number inside the Profile section, but that didn't work either. So how should I test in PayPal sandbox?
When making a testing in Sandbox for credit card, you must make sure the card number hasn't been used anywhere in PayPal. Use http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/ to get a fresh card number.
paypal provides a list of creditcard numbers for testing purposes
https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/vhelp/paypalmanager_help/credit_card_numbers.htm
I am using the sandbox url for accepting test payment through paypal.
When a user clicks a button he is redirected to paypal sandbox site. On the paypal sandbox site the user is presented with an option to pay using credit card. However when I try test credit card 4111-1111-1111-1111 it gives me the following error "The card you entered cannot be used for this payment. Please enter a different debit or credit card number."
I am not sure what am I missing?
The numbers provided in the documentation are used so much that the sandbox servers just don't accept them anymore. They really need to update the docs.
I would recommend generating fresh credit card numbers to use. I always use this site for that. The numbers it generates will work fine in the sandbox.
I understand that when the customer logs into PayPal and uses their PayPal account, PayPal will send us the customer’s payer_id. But what happens if the customer does not log into PayPal and just uses a credit card to process the payment? Does PayPal still supply a payer_id in that case? And is there any way to fake that in the Sandbox? Does PayPal supply test credit card numbers? One for Success, and others for various types of failure?
(This is PayPal Website Payments Standard.)
The answer I received from the PayPal developer forums was:
A payer_id is returned whether the
buyer pays with a PayPal account or
uses their credit card without logging
into an account.
You can generate test card number in
the sandbox by following the steps
below:
First login to your buyer sandbox
account and generate a test credit
card by following the steps below:
Click on Profile
Click on Credit card
Click on Add
Select the card type (currently, the
sandbox will generate test visa card
numbers)
Copy the card here and click on cancel
** Don't add the card to your account**
Now use this test card number, any
expiration date in the future, 000 for
the CVV2 number, any address in a
valid format and any name to test
again.
These test cards will result in a
success. For website payments
standard, to simulate failure with a
test card number, you can enter any
random 16 digits for the card number.
However, with website payments
standard, if a transaction fails, no
response is sent to the merchant.
Thanks.