If written a simple paypal standard checkout which sends a form to
https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?
together with get variables like items, tax, adress, business, redirect URL, etc.
Under developer.paypal.com I have one paypal-facilitator#... & paypal-buyer#... account. (The facilitator is used as business variable in my URL).
After a lot of testing everything runs smooth and ready for production. My Question is how do I bring this live? Does it suffice to use
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?
as Checkout URL? Or do I have to recreate the facilitator account in some paypal production environment?
If you simply replace the url "https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?" with "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?" it will switch to live mode, please also make sure that you use Live PayPal account credentials as the sandbox/facilitator accounts will not work in live mode.
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I have a website that has two versions: live(mywebsite.com) and dev (dev.mywebsite.com). "Live" for real users and "dev" for development process.
So, I want to use PayPal Live mode on the live website and PayPal sendbox for testing on the "dev" subdomain. How can I organize this process?
I am not sure which PayPal product you are using.
Ideally if you just make sure that if you are calling a paypal api in sandbox it will have "sandbox" in the url..Also you can create sandbox account with a different email address that also will help in distinction.
I read on https://www.angelleye.com/test-paypal-ipn/ that
Of course, you’ll need to make sure you’ve configured IPN in your
sandbox seller account just like you would a live account, too, so
that it functions as expected.
So how to enable IPN url in sandbox seller (buisness) account?
Could someone take a screenshot and show me. I just found IPN url in settings in live account.
I also read this but there is no such thing under Profile link:
Profile link and look for "Instant Payment Notification preferences"
Under the Sub-Heading "Selling preferences"
Does Enabling IPN for live account would enable it automatically for sand box seller account ?
When you have a sandbox account it is treated like an entirely separate account. Anything you need to configure in order for API calls to work will need to be configured separate on each account.
That said, sandbox accounts typically enable most of the APIs by default for ease of testing, while the live servers do require specific approval for use at times.
In this case, though, the IPN URL is a custom value you are setting, and again, it needs to configured in each account because they are entirely separate accounts from each other.
So, the same method you used to enable the IPN URL on your live PayPal would be used to enable it in your sandbox account. It's just that you would log in to www.sandbox.paypal.com/home using your sandbox account instead of www.paypal.com.
They may look a little different if the PayPal account versions for each aren't exactly the same, but the overall process is the same. Log in to the account, click into the profile, and find the Instant Payment Notification Preferences within your profile settings. Then set it accordingly.
I have an asp.net website that is supposed to allow users to make payments with Paypal. I want to test it with the Paypal sandbox.
So I created a developer/business account at "developer.paypal.com'.
Using this account I created a lot of fake email accounts, some personal, some business, for testing. But now, I want to tell the website to enable IPN, and also, to send IPN notifications to a particular URL. I don't see a place on the site to do that. (I assume this would be in the sandbox site, not in the real site).
Any help is appreciated.
Try enabling it on the account level (log into the sandbox account and set it there). There is an IPN simulator as well.
I have a simple issue here. I have a code thats calling an API to check if a given Paypal email is valid. The api is PayPal's AdapativeAccounts/GetVerifiedStatus, url: https://svcs.sandbox.paypal.com/AdaptiveAccounts/GetVerifiedStatus
If I give it a real paypal email to the sandbox url, it says unregistered. But if I move it to production and use the api's prod url, it works! So, whats the issue here? Should I grab a fake email from PP somewhere and use these data to test the api? That would make sense as Paypal might want to protect somehow the accounts from malicious sandbox users..
anyone knows?
The Sandbox isn't linked to the live site. Each site is completely isolated from the other. Just because an account exists on the live site, it doesn't mean that it exists on the Sandbox (or vice versa).
If you're going to check that an account exists on the Sandbox, you need to create it on the Sandbox first (unless you're trying to check that the account doesn't exist -- in which case, don't create the account). The easiest way is to use the PayPal Developer Portal -- https://developer.paypal.com. Log in with the email address and password for your live PayPal account, then go to Applications->Sandbox accounts->Create Account.
I am able to create sandbox accounts successfully on paypal but when i was able to add the product (digital goods), the sandbox site redirects to a live site. My question is how do i go about adding a product (digital goods) on the sandbox account.
It sounds like you must be using some sort of class library/SDK to handle this for you and it's not redirecting correctly..??
You can do the redirect on your own. It's simply a matter of calling SetExpressCheckout to get your token and setup the digital goods payment. Then you just do the redirection on your own based on whether you're using the sandbox or the live server. For the sandbox you'd redirect to: https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/incontext?token=SECTOKEN
If you simply do that redirect on your own it should work just fine. I've tested digital goods payments in the sandbox a lot in the past and have never had any issues with it.
Add "sandbox." to the URL to sign up?
https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_product-go&product=additional_payment&signup_profile=dg