Same question as this: Paypal sandbox account email confirmation but it was not so easily resolved for me.
I can't confirm my sandbox email address, it says an email would be sent to my email address (which it wasn't) and I read elsewhere that it should be found in the "Test Emails" section at developer.paypal.com. I'm looking at this page (updated link) and it's not there either.
Can someone point me to the correct place to find this confirmation email?
The reason I need to confirm my email address is I'm getting this error when trying to make a test payment to the sandboxed merchant account with a sandboxed personal account:
Rapids::Exception (N6Rapids5Tools13PimpExceptionE): Pimp RC: 3514
Apparently verifying the merchant email address fixes this.
On Developer site is section Dashboard then Sandbox notifications - there are emails and sms from sandbox account, and also it catches confirmation emails which should go to your email...
I found it after one day of looking what's happend with email confirmations -.- .
Turns out the answer was not to try manually create a sandbox account on the sandbox website, but to automatically create one at developer.paypal.com > Applications > Sandbox Accounts. This was much quicker and easier to do too!
If you're using Adapative Accounts API to create account (in the first place), put confirmEmail as TRUE in createAccountWebOptions (for registrationType = Web).. this way you wouldn't have headache of email confirmation, for new accounts.
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I have created an HK business sandbox account and it said we need to confirm the email in order to use PayPal API. But I cannot find the confirmation email in Sandbox Test Accounts > Notifications. I waited for a few days but still no email received. Is there anyone know how to confirm the email?
Add the guide here for your reference on creating sandbox account. The email for this new created account will be confirmed by default. You don't need to do it in sandbox as the email is fake.
I'm trying to create Sandbox accounts and many times it says there are issue creating my account, other times it creates but it is unverified... (both cloning the 2 pre-created accounts or creating brand new ones).
Am I doing anything wrong? I need them verified to avoid limits and stuff... and obviously, I won't go through a verification process for a test account.
Any help?
You answered your own question.
You need a paypal account, with your real paypal account you log into the developers sandbox. There you can create test apps and users
It's not your fault, I also noticed the sandbox environment / developer dashboard / account creation process are full of errors.
Some hints:
Don't create test account using the developer dashboard, create directly from www.sandbox.paypal.com and add it to dashboard by clicking the link in "Want to link existing Sandbox Account with your developer account? Click Here and provide credentials of your sandbox account"
As it's a sandbox account, it won't send email to your real email address, instead, after you did Step 1, you can click on the sandbox test account list in developer dashboard, and access the "notifications". Which list the "emails" paypal sent. Be warned most of the emails are garbage as they are based64 encoded HTML, decoding them shows incomplete HTML code. You may try to setup your paypal account so that notification are sent in plain text, not HTML. You will need these email to get your account verified.
Even if your account has no money, try to send some and it should automatically create some for you.
I am integrating the Paypal payment gateway standard in my website. I have made all the setup configuration and the transaction goes through well, but the problem is that I can't verify the email.
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Kindly suggest how can I verify the email in sandbox account.
I have confirmed/verified your email address prasadraja07-facilitator#aol.com in the backend.
In Future, it is recommended to create the sandbox accounts from developer.paypal.com where the created sandbox accounts
would be already verified (if you have checked Bank verified account option as Yes)
To confirm your email, check your developer.paypal.com dashboard and look into your email notifications where you see email confirmation link.
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.
My PayPal IPN scripts runs very well. When I test with my sandbox account it, the payment is made instantly, however when I use my client's business email, I got payment_status as 'Pending', with pending_reason as 'unilateral' in the IPN log call.
My client's email is confirmed at PayPal. So can anyone tell me why I am getting this issue?
pending_reason=unilateral means that the email address of the payment recipient has not been registered with PayPal. For the full list of pending reasons, see the PayPal IPN documentation.
Check the email address for typos, and double-check with your client that they truly have registered their address with PayPal (they may not understand what this entails).
Only accounts made in www.sandbox.paypal.com exists when testing on www.sandbox.paypal.com. So you can't use live accounts for testing, because they don't exist within the sandbox site. You should create the accounts at developer.paypal.com
I had this problem - I was sending PayPal my "live" payer_email, when I changed it to the business email in the sandbox it worked. same as my live email with ****-facilitator#yoursite.com
Double-check if your Paypal primary email address has been confirmed. For me this error happened when my client's email wasn't confirmed yet, of all things!