I am developing a site that uses PayPal for payments. I can test with test accounts using the sandbox. However, I am not sure what to do with the PayPal accounts when doing a beta test. Do I have to create individual sandbox accounts and give them out to the test participants?
Have your participants use a test Credit Card that Paypal provides: http://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/vhelp/paypalmanager_help/credit_card_numbers.htm
From there they should be able to test your site, and you can check if transaction go through.
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I am new to Paypal integration to websites. I just created a sand box test account to try and create buttons.
I am trying to make use of Paypal subscription to my website.
Can anyone give some basic information of how can I test and increase my knowledge on Paypal integration to my website.
Thanks
Well, you are going in the right direction. You would want to sign up for a developer account at developer.paypal.com. Once you have your developer account set up, then you would want to log in and create a test sandbox buyer and sandbox account. You can use these accounts to create test subscription buttons and walk through and sign up for the subscription with your buyer account. This will allow you to test with subscriptions in the sandbox.
Can I test the PayPal IPN without actually making a purchase?
Is there a developer sandbox for testing the Request/Response functionality prior to actual implementation?
Basically, I have my server and would like to use the IPN feature to track my customer purchases and respond to a customer's purchase immediately. I would first like to test this out with dummy payments to ensure that the PayPal IPN and my server are communicating correctly.
Check paypal's site... the link is: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/sell/ipn-test-outside.
Sign up for a dev account, and inside there you can create test users and specify their paypal balances, etc.
Paypal has a developer sandbox here https://developer.paypal.com/
Here you can get complete instructions:
https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/ipn/integration-guide/IPNTesting/
I've got a client website in production with both PayPal checkout and PayPal pro credit card payments. I need to update the code sometimes, but I want to be 100% sure that the code works. However I can't test it because I'd have to make a real payment for that.
How do you deal with this?
You can run test transactions against the sandbox box and test the different API calls. You would need to set up a developer account at developer.paypal.com. Then create a couple of test accounts such as a seller account and a buyer account. Generate your API credentials for your test seller account. Then plug those into your code, and make test API calls against that account. You can set up your test accounts to mimic your live accounts.
I'm looking for a explanation about how the Paypal Sandbox works. Let's say I have a real Paypal account through which I receive payments and I want to configure it on Drupal Commerce's Paypal module, but also I want to test the payment workflow first before making it live and let my customers use it, I see the Paypal configuration on Drupal has the following options under the "PayPal server" section:
Sandbox - use for testing, requires a PayPal Sandbox account
Live - use for processing real transactions
I assume that if I want to do "dummy" transactions I must enable the "Sandbox" option on the Drupal side so my question is
Is enabling the 'Sandbox' option the only thing I need to do in order to avoid real transactions being charged to my Paypal account? or do I have to create another Paypal account (the Sandbox account) and configure it on the Drupal side instead of my real account?
I was just wondering if the Paypal Payment plugin on Drupal needs a "Sandbox account" (different from my real Paypal account) or if by just enabling the Sandbox option it somehow signals Paypal about it and any transactions are just ignored while that option is enabled.
I'll apreciate if someone clarifies this a bit for me, I'm just starting to develop Paypal related stuff.
Thanks!
I recommend using a sandbox account from here
You cannot test a dummy transaction with a real PayPal account on PayPal Sandbox. It requires Sandbox account. So, you need a Sandbox account AND change the Drupal option to Sandbox for testing.
I recently set up Paypal payments standard on my web app and things are working fine. I am able to use Paypal sandbox to test and things work the way I expect.
However, I would like to send out the app to my beta testers and allow them to test making payments without actually using their Paypal accounts or credit cards. I can create sandbox merchants and sandbox payees, but that doesn't quite do it. My button send them to sandbox.paypal.com... but when they get there they are asked to log in with a developer/sandbox password. It doesn't just let them login with the test payee account.
I can work around this, but I wanted to see if I was missing something.
Ya this type of situation was not what we intended the sandbox to be used for. Every sandbox account is tied to a developer account so there is no way around this.
You can do your unit testing or test your application in sandbox, and go live to actually have your clients start using it. There was no plan to have your clients test making payments in sandbox.