How to unlock PayPal Test Account? - paypal

We're working on an mobile app developed in Titanium Studio 3.2.0 and Titanium SDK 3.2.0.GA and Alloy 1.2.2 from Appcelerator. The app is being deployed to both Android (2.3.x and greater) and iOS(6.x or greater). To work with PayPal we're using the Titanium's PayPal module.
When we started the payment test on Android we started to get the following message: You PayPal account is restricted or locked. Go to www.paypal.com to resolve this issue:
In iOS I'm getting the message: An invalid parameter was sent: SENDER.
I don't understand why my test account was locked, I tried to create a new test account and the same thing happened. It's weird because it used to work fine in iOS and suddenly after trying to test in Android now it's not working on both.
Here's the code I use:
function createPayPalButton()
{
Titanium.Paypal = require('ti.paypal');
var price = paypalPrice;
var PaypalHolderView = Ti.UI.createView({
width: "200dp",
height : '50dp',
top : '10dp',
layout : 'horizontal',
borderRadius : '5dp',
backgroundColor : 'transparent'
});
var ppArgs = {
width: Ti.UI.FILL,
height:"50dp",
bottom:"20dp",
textStyle: Titanium.Paypal.PAYPAL_TEXT_PAY,
appId:"APP-80W284485P519543T",
buttonStyle: Ti.Paypal.BUTTON_194x37,
paypalEnvironment: Ti.Paypal.PAYPAL_ENV_SANDBOX,
feePaidByReceiver: false,
transactionType: Ti.Paypal.PAYMENT_TYPE_DONATION,
enableShipping: false,
payment: {
subtotal: price,
tax: 0,
shipping: 0,
currency:"USD",
recipient:"asama#x.com", // we're using a fake email, but we're not sure if this property should contain the email of the owner of the PayPal account.
itemDescription:"Donation",
merchantName:"OurMobileAppName" // not sure if we should reference to the package of our app i.e. to use com.mycompany.myapp or to just leave it as myapp
}
};
var ppButton = Titanium.Paypal.createPaypalButton(ppArgs);
PaypalHolderView.add(ppButton);
$.MainContainer.add(PaypalHolderView);
ppButton.addEventListener("paymentCancelled", function(e){
Ti.API.info("Payment Canceled e: " + JSON.stringify(e));
});
ppButton.addEventListener("paymentSuccess", function(e){
Ti.API.info('paymentSuccess e: ' + JSON.stringify(e));
callback.success(e);
});
ppButton.addEventListener("paymentFailed", function(e){
Ti.API.info('paymentFailed e: ' + JSON.stringify(e));
});
ppButton.addEventListener("paymentError", function(e){
Ti.API.info("Payment Error e: " + JSON.stringify(e));
});
}
Is this normal behaviour in Sandbox mode? Did I perform too many transactions? Can I unlock this test accounts?

In the end the PayPal support team didn't response back at all and we were left to find what was wrong.
What we discovered is that although our account for Production was activated to receive payments, the Sandbox account had to be activated separately, after doing that and updating our code for creating the PayPal button as follows:
var ppArgs = {
width: Ti.UI.FILL,
height:"50dp",
bottom:"20dp",
appId:"APP-80W284485P519543T",
textStyle: Titanium.Paypal.PAYPAL_TEXT_PAY, // Causes the button's text to change from "Pay" to "Donate"
buttonStyle: Ti.Paypal.BUTTON_194x37,
paypalEnvironment: Ti.Paypal.PAYPAL_ENV_SANDBOX,
feePaidByReceiver: false,
enableShipping: false,
payment: {
paymentType : Titanium.Paypal.PAYMENT_TYPE_SERVICE, // we added this
subtotal: price,
tax: 0,
shipping: 0,
currency:"USD",
recipient:"your_recipient#fake.com"
}
};
We were able to make test purchases after this.

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We are using the PayPal JS SDK ^5.1.0 and I'm using it to generate a pay button like described in the docs:
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"client-id": conf.client_id,
"currency": conf.currency_code
});
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It seems not to work well with error case i live. How can I provoke failed transactions or capture erros in sandbox mode?
I found the negative testing mode of a sandbox, but it does not change the behaviour for the button. I still get only positive responses.
I opened also an issue in the github repo: https://github.com/paypal/paypal-js/issues/273
Thx a lot for any help! I might overlook something very obvious...
For client-side captures, actions.order.capture().then( is only triggered when a capture is successful.
Failure cases are handled by the JS SDK itself, there is no need to test anything as it is not your code.
For server-side capturing (not your question) and using the JS SDK for approval, see the demo code here. Negative testing can be used from server API calls for failures if desired.

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I have a paypal checkout button on my website along with funding icons. This is part of the code for it:
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size: 'responsive', // small | medium | large | responsive
shape: 'rect', // pill | rect
color: 'gold' // gold | blue | silver | black
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total: amount,
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What makes this even weirder is that whenever the txn_type is express_checkout the invoice is there, but when it's web_accept, which is most of the time, neither the invoice nor the custom field are getting passed (I added the custom field when the IPN messages started failing).
The api we use for the button is https://www.paypalobjects.com/api/checkout.js
Is there something I'm missing or is it just that the api is deprecated and this is another sign to switch over?
EDIT:
After testing this out on other browsers it seems that adblock is blocking part of the checkout.js dependencies from loading:
Firefox: Cross-Origin Request Blocked
Opera: Failed to load resource: net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_ADBLOCKER
Edge: POST https://www.paypal.com/xoplatform/logger/api/logger net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT
No error message from chrome.
EDIT 2:
sample IPN of type web_accept
mc_gross=300.00&protection_eligibility=Ineligible&payer_id=SOMEREALID&
payment_date=11:32:11 Sep 27, 2021 PDT&payment_status=Completed&charset=windows-1252&
first_name=&mc_fee=9.00&notify_version=3.9&custom=&payer_status=unverified&
business=our_business_email&quantity=1&
verify_sign=sign_in_alpha_numeric&
payer_email=random_alpha_numeric#dcc2.paypal.com&txn_id=1KM93595HU1361254&payment_type=instant&
last_name=NotProvided&receiver_email=same_as_business_email&payment_fee=&
shipping_discount=0.00&receiver_id=more_alpha_numeric&insurance_amount=0.00&
txn_type=web_accept&item_name=&discount=0.00&mc_currency=CAD&item_number=&
residence_country=OUR_COUNTRY_CODE&receipt_id=1111-1111-1111-1111&shipping_method=Default&
transaction_subject=&payment_gross=
In the example IPN given:
mc_gross=300.00&protection_eligibility=Ineligible&payer_id=SOMEREALID&
payment_date=11:32:11 Sep 27, 2021 PDT&payment_status=Completed&charset=windows-1252&
first_name=&mc_fee=9.00&notify_version=3.9&custom=&payer_status=unverified&
business=our_business_email&quantity=1&
verify_sign=sign_in_alpha_numeric&
payer_email=random_alpha_numeric#dcc2.paypal.com&txn_id=1KM93595HU1361254&payment_type=instant&
last_name=NotProvided&receiver_email=same_as_business_email&payment_fee=&
shipping_discount=0.00&receiver_id=more_alpha_numeric&insurance_amount=0.00&
txn_type=web_accept&item_name=&discount=0.00&mc_currency=CAD&item_number=&
residence_country=OUR_COUNTRY_CODE&receipt_id=1111-1111-1111-1111&shipping_method=Default&
transaction_subject=&payment_gross=
Note: #dcc2.paypal.com
This is from a direct credit card integration, perhaps using the classic NVP DoDirectPayment API, or Virtual Terminal [or Payflow with PayPal as the processor, as it happens]
So, not related to the button code in the question -- rather a separate integration to this PayPal account.

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If you want to be able to choose from a list of predefined test cards, follow the instructions here: https://developers.google.com/pay/api/web/guides/resources/test-card-suite
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