just found that PayPal changed their Sanbox, now I need real PayPal account to develop.
Ok, I went to my real one, imported my test sandbox accounts into it. Then, I go to one of these accounts on developer.paypal.com, and click "sandbox site" link. I expect that it will go to sandbox site where I can log in with this test account. But instead after clicking the link I'm getting "please login to use PayPal sandbox features" message on paypal.sandbox.com, that has a link to developer.paypal.com, where I'm logged in already. So, I don't know any way to log in with my test accounts now. Please help.
This is a known issue due to transition from old sandbox to the new site. You need to delete your cookies and re-login to access the sandbox site. Please note that IE has permanent cookies stored on file system that need to be deleted. Firefox or Chrome would work better than IE8.
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I'm not a Facebook user, I never had any Facebook account, so I'm not familiar at all with the Facebook website.
I need to create a Facebook App
Today I need to implement "Facebook Connect" (authentication) for the website of a client. I'm using an existing extension which requires me to enter my App ID and Secret key, which can be obtained by creating a Facebook App.
1: Where to get started?
According to both the Facebook Documentation and the extension I'm using, a Facebook App can be created by going to the following URL: https://developers.facebook.com/apps/
2: Account required
When I go to that URL I am asked to login. Very well, so I go ahead and create my very first Facebook Account. On the registration form it says that if the account is created for a business then I don't need to enter my personal name. This account is not for me but for my client's website, and my client being a business, I go on and open a business account.
3: Account verification
To complete, I am required to verify my email address, which I do successfully. After that, it asked me to verify my personal phone number, which I do successfully.
4: Account created & verified: still can't access the App Creation page
Now, I finally have a Facebook Business Account. I go again to that same URL to create a Facebook App: https://developers.facebook.com/apps/. However, I still can't access the page as according to the Facebook Documentation it seems that I need to convert my account to a "Developer Account".
5: Developer Account required
Very well, I follow the process of converting my account to a Developer Account, provide all kind of information about me and the company hiring me, and finally, I now have a Developer Account, yeey!!
6: Second attempt
Ok, now it should certainly work and I will FINALLY be able to create this dawn app to start implementing Facebook Connect on my client's website!
Double checking that the URL is the correct one from the documentation of the plugin, and also from the Facebook Documentation itself, I go ahead and refresh this page: https://developers.facebook.com/apps/
7: Still fail: now getting redirected to Facebook Advertising
But now, when loading the above URL, I am automatically redirected to the following page: https://www.facebook.com/advertising
I have tried to log-out, erase all my cookies, login again, but nothing will do, when I go to https://developers.facebook.com/apps/ I am always redirected to https://www.facebook.com/advertising which is about creating ads but what I need is to create an app!
8: Personal Account required
I searched all over the place for an explanation or maybe for a newer URL, but no luck. I finally found on StackOverflow (Can't access Facebook Developers App!!?! Redirected to my page repeatedly) that I can't create a Facebook App with a Business Account, and that I need a Personal Account instead.
9: Personal Account creation
Very well, I go ahead and create my very first personal account on Facebook.
10: Can't create a personal account, email and phone already used!
Oops, it says that my email was already used for another account. Hmmm OK so I go ahead and create a new email address especially, and then try to register a personal account again. Now it is asking to verify my phone number, which I do, but unfortunately it says that my phone number was already used to verify another account earlier today!
Dawn, I'm really starting to feel exhausted by Facebook. Let's think about a solution. I have only one phone number, and I wouldn't use the phone of a friend as they all have Facebook and all probably verified their own accounts using their phones.
11: Deleting my Business Account created earlier
Solution founds! I will delete my business account, so my real email and my phone number will be available again! Yeey!!!
12: Facebook won't delete my account today
A few minutes later, I understand that my Facebook Account cannot be deleted today. I can deactivate it. But this won't free my email nor my phone number. After some research on the web I found a hidden form that allows to really delete my account. I go ahead through the deletion process, enter my password about 10 times, and fill 10 really hard CAPTCHAS, and finally my account is deleted! Oh wait... it says it won't be deleted before 2 weeks!!!
13: Final attempt: fail again
Anyway, I still try to use my phone number again to create a personal account, but still no luck, Facebook won't let me use my own phone number to activate my account.
What are my options?
Have you looked at all into dummy phone numbers, such as with Google voice (free) or with Skype (nominal fee)? Some sites, such as Craigslist, can sniff those numbers out and still not allow them to be used for verifying, but others can't tell the difference. Could be useful.
Depending on how big your client's budget is, maybe grab a throwaway prepaid phone from the store and use it. Just a few thoughts on how to avoid the phone issue. Everything else seems straightforward after that.
Building an app on Facebook gives you the opportunity to deeply integrate into the core Facebook experience. Your app can integrate with many aspects of Facebook.com, including the News Feed and Notifications. All of the core Facebook Platform technologies, such as Social Plugins, the Graph API and Platform Dialogs are available to Apps on Facebook.
In this document we will explain the following concepts:
Canvas Page: The Page in which your app is loaded.
Social Channels: The key channels that help you grow your user base and re-engage existing users.
Analytics: Accessing analytics for your application.
If you wish to start building an App on Facebook now, please refer to our getting started tutorial. If you want to build an app to add to the tab of a Facebook Page then you should refer to Page Tabs.
Visit this site
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/canvas/
I am trying to login to my sandbox account (using chrome) but since the new change in paypal i cant.
PayPal now ask me to log in to the developer site. i do.
and then i go to the applications->sandbox accounts and there press the 'sanbox site' link.
if am lucky then i then get the login screen to the sandbox.
i enter my credentials and click on the login button.
i then get this screen:
I press the "paypal sandbox" link and i return again to the developer.paypal.com site.
ofcurse i use the email address that is listed in my sandbox account.
if i try and use firefox and go to developer.paypal.com i get a very long json response
that start like this
{"data":{"master":"inc/master","googleAnalyticAccountId":
ok i am not giving up i go and delete all my cookies that belong to paypal i then go to
https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/home now i enter my credentials again now i get this screen:
i click the "paypal sandbox" link and i get the long json again :(
another wonderful work by paypal.
btw i contacted paypal on the 8/5/13 but did not get an answer yet.
does anyone know of way to end this hell and be able to use my sandbox again ?
Try clearing all of your cookies and cache prior to opening up your browser window. The once you have done this, open up a browser. Pull up a tab, and navigate to developer.paypal.com and log in. Once you have successfully logged in, you should be able to test your site, or the sandbox site. Open up your site or the sandbox site in a different tab while leaving the developer.com site up.
I have been trying to access my Paypal Sandbox but no luck. I can login fine to my PayPal account but when I try to access https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/webapps/hub/ or https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/ I keep getting a page cannot be displayed error. I have flushed my cache and have tried IE, Firefox and Chrome but none seem to work.
None of the links from within PayPal to the sandbox work either.
Perhaps behind some type of firewall or security setting that is blocking access. What pages on the sandbox are you specifically trying to access. Make sure you are signing into PayPal's Developer Site first at (developer.paypal.com), and then try accessing one of your accounts you have set up by clicking the link under you test account that says access sandbox site. Otherwise after signing into the developer account, you can open up another tab and go to the sandbox site at https://www.sandbox.paypal.com and see if that page comes up for you. You should be able to sign in there.
I was facing the same problem but I could find a workaround.
If you pay attention in the links of the left menu (My business info, my money..), they are leading to pages in the domain "beta-sandbox" and that's the problem.
Copy the link and change the domain for "sandbox"
For instance, the correct link for
https://www.beta-sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_profile-display-handler&tab_id=SELLER_PREFERENCES
is
https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_profile-display-handler&tab_id=SELLER_PREFERENCES
For testing my adaptive api payments with new sandbox (Developer.Paypal.com) i have imported my sandbox accounts into the live paypal account. But on testing the payment i am not getting redirect to the PayPal Store page. Instead it asks me to login into http://developer.paypal.com on which i am already login. Even when i does login it do not show me the store page for the payment but instead just show me the homepage for the developer site.
https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/webscr?cmd=_ap-preapproval&preapprovalkey=PA-30G61643G7253031W
Above is the URL which i got as result of testing for payment from my site along with the approval key. But i am just moving in the circles of this new paypal transition. As i have also tried deleting my cookies on the Mozila. I am using iMac.
Same happens when i try to go to sandbox site from inside the live account, it sends me to the sandbox site where i get message to login into the developer.paypal site
Please advise how to get rid of these PayPal bugs for testing the Workflow which earlier was working smoothly untill PayPal decided to roll out new changes (Required Live account for testing).
Looking for guidance on this issue.
With the recent revamp of the PayPal developer site, I have encountered many problems trying to test my site with PayPal integration.
Issue 1:
I am not able to check out from out site which it should bring me to sandbox.paypal.com, it return me the common error of "Please login to use the PayPal sandbox feature". I have confirmed that I am logged in to the developer site at developer.paypal.com.
Issue 2:
Under Applications > Sandbox accounts, in one of the account, I am redirected to the live site at www.paypal.com by clicking on "Sandbox site". It should bring me to sandbox.paypal.com so I can login to the sandbox account. Currently this is not possible.
Issue 3:
I realised that I am logged out from developer.paypal.com when I go to www.paypal.com. Some kind of cookie issue?
Above all issues, I have tried troubleshooting by using a different browser, clearing cookies and cache.
Some of these issues are currently being worked on. Some have been able to have been resolved by clearing the cache and cookies on your browser. This must be done prior to opening up the developer.paypal.com site and most developers have better luck with this when using Firefox or Chrome. There appear to be more issues with IE, than the other browsers.
If doing this does not resolve your issue, you will want to open up a ticket with PayPal Merchant Technical Services. This way your issues can be tracked, and it will allow PayPal to gauge the number of merchants being effected by the different issues. Also, this will allow you to be notified once the issue is resolved.
As a workaround, you could also try using the API credentials that are within the sample code/SDK's for testing purposes. This will allow you to test the API calls, though you just will not be able to log into the Merchant account and make changes to it. This may or may not work for you depending on your needs.
Trying different browsers worked for me. I experienced the same problem for several hours today when using Firefox, Chrome, and Safari on Mac OSX 10.8. I tested using Firefox 19.0 on a PC and things worked fine with the PayPal sandbox site.
I had the same issues as the original poster. I was using IE9 with ExpressCheckout API.
I was calling the SetExpressCheckout and redirecting to PayPal sandbox. On the Sandbox login page, after typing login details of my test personal account I received a message that the email account was not valid and a link (which didn't work) to return to Sandbox site.
I switched to Firefox (which was also probably clean of cookies for the PayPal Sandbox as I don't recall ever testing PayPal using Firefox) and everything worked fine.
I called the SetExpressCheckout, redirected to PayPal sandbox and I could login with my test personal account and checkout and return correctly to my payment landing page to call DoExpressCheckoutPayment.
FYI in case anyone else is dealing with this problem. I am using the PayPal IPN feature, which in the Sandbox environment stopped working when I was doing some recent testing after migrating to the 'new' sandbox environment. I imported my old sandbox test accounts after logging into the developer site with my real paypal info, but still nothing worked. After messing around forever, I discovered that basically you have to setup again as if it was a new account even though you imported your old settings. I had to specify my IPN url again and also re-verify the old imported sandbox accounts via an email link that you receive under you paypal developer sandbox notifications. Then while logged in the developer site, you can log into the sandbox environment with your test accounts and everything works.
For testing purposes the most simple solution:
Click your browsers back button and perform the step again.
Sounds stupid, but it works.