Accounts I create through the PayPal sandbox (created on http://developer.paypal.com/) are created with zero balance and no credit card regardless of what I set when creating the account.
This results in:
On payment page, a request for me to enter a credit card for the account
No paypal balance (tested by logging into the paypal sandbox).
I have tried creating multiple accounts, several with balances of $3,000 USD, one with a credit card set, another with paypal set, and always with credit card type of Visa. Always they are created blank.
Is this a PayPal related problem, or am I not creating sandbox accounts correctly?
We were able to reproduce this issue and PayPal is working to resolve it right now. I will reply back as soon as this is fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Thanks,
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I am testing my payment integration using PayPal Sandbox
When I go to make payment using a sandbox account, the following message displays on the payment page
To use your balance next time, go to your PayPal account for an
identity check.
If I log into the sandbox account, I am not seeing any way to do this.
How do I set up the sandbox account so that it can use PayPal funds for the payment rather than the credit card option?
It doesn't matter how you are funding the payment in sandbox. There's no actual reason for you to be bothering to care about this issue, since the result of a completed PayPal payment on the receiver end will be identical.
But since you ask, you can create a bank verified account via https://www.paypal.com/signin?intent=developer&returnUri=https%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.paypal.com%2Fdeveloper%2Faccounts%2F
I am new to PayPal integration I am testing the payment process but facing some issue while checking out. I tried all mention cards in PayPal website but didn't work any.
Error Message:
Sorry, your bank wasn't able to verify your VISA x-**** at this time.
Please choose another way to pay.
Go to the PayPal Dashboard from the account from which you created the Sandbox accounts and PayPal app. There in the Mock section in the side navigation go to Credit Card Generator. Here select the country that you have chosen while making the business sandbox account and click Generate CC.
Now copy the details of the card generated. Now go to the site where you have integrated PayPal checkout and while making payment instead of choosing the default card click on add Debit/Credit card and add a card with the details the card that you generated. You'll be redirected to a payment page, fill a random password there and your dummy transaction will be completed if everything else in the code is fine.
You need to go to your paypal developer account and then find the mock menu and then select credit card generator
Generate a credit card based on your county
Now try to add a new card on the Paypal page where you are getting error.
Enter the details of the mock card
Then again try to do that payment.
You may be asked to enter a password. Just click on the new-user/forgot password link.
Everything will work fine
I faced this similar issue while integrating Paypal with my app. What I did found that Paypal integration for sandbox account does have an issue while payment if the currency used, is other than USD.
Yes, other solution may work if you want to generate a fake credit card and add it to the Paypal page.
But if you don't want to add any other credit card to the Paypal account and use it for testing purposes, what you can do is to change the country of both business and personal accounts to USA & currency to USD, also set the app to accept the payment in USD.
It will work fine.
I set up correctly the sandbox accounts (seller and buyer) long time ago, until past week everything was working good, now at test into sandbox always ask me to add a credit card, if I add the new credit card info, it shows again the same form asking to add a credit card, no error or another information is shown. If I try to test without the paypal account, using the credit card payment way, after I put the info of credit card an buyer, says credit card declined. All these data are the same I used until the previous week, and it was working well. I'm using a third part cart with checkout button (REST API)
I experienced the same thing. I think there is something wrong with Paypal sandbox environment right now (or as usual). If you want to try the payment now there is a solution.
Please see this answer on another question related to this issue.
But you can only use the credit in your account instead of credit card.
I have tried adding credit cards from the sandbox site Profile -> Credit/Debit Cards, and then used those cards that i added to test via the sandbox site. But none of those cards seem to work.
Further I've also tried the cards that are created via the developer.paypal.com. Even those cards aren't working and i get the same error as below each time.
However the payments does go through the default buyer paypal account created in the developer.paypal.com site. But the card configured for the same account seems to fail
Can someone point me where i might be going wrong ?
The card you entered cannot be used for this payment. Please enter a different debit or credit card number.
Further I've also ensured my "Payment Receiving Preferences" in profile page is enabled to receive all payments.
Thanks,
While testing the direct payment with credit card I always get the following error: "You cannot use an e-mail address or card number that belongs to an existing PayPal account. If you have a PayPal account, please log in. If you don't, please change the e-mail address or card number and try again".
The credit cards number I use for testing come from http://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/vhelp/paypalmanager_help/credit_card_numbers.htm but I also tried those produced by http://www.getcreditcardnumbers.com/.
Finally I found the solution by cleaning browser cache and cookies before to connect to my site.
It's strange but it seems that having a PayPal cookie in the browser (created by during a previous PayPal transaction) causes its use also during a guest payment attempt.