I have old Sandbox business & personal accounts that stopped working. I have to go back and test a site I developed two years ago. I saw a reference to importing these accounts on the new site but every link seems to go in circles. I certainly can't afford time to rewrite all my client's api's even if they would pay me just to go into testing mode.
Can someone suggest how I might revive these accounts.
There are currently some issues that are being addressed to resolve this issue. As a workaround try using FireFox or Chrome if you were using IE. Clear your cookies and chache prior to opening up that browhwer. Then go to developer.paypal.com and log in with your live PayPal account email address. Then try importing your accounts. There have been more issues with IE than the other browsers.
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I was working with paypal sandbox account. It was working fine. But, now it shows the following error.
The cookies are enabled. I tried using different browser and a different computer. Still I'm getting the same error. I tried clearing the cookies and cache. But it didn't work. Any solution?
Please turn on cookies to check out
This is a Paypal's issue which affects Express Checkout on the PayPal Sandbox. Paypal announced that there is no alternative workaround at the moment.
Reference: https://www.paypal-notify.com/eventnotification/event_details?eventId=6109
This works for me: Paypal Sandbox Frustration
To simplify:
Login first your developer's account here: http://developer.paypal.com
Open another tab and login your developer's merchant account here: https://paypalmanager.sandbox.paypal.com/apiAccess.do?subaction=api
Open another tab again and do your express checkout process.
To add an experience : In the beginning I had serious SSL issues when connecting to sandbox for a SetExpressCheckout:
The type of error was javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException Error
To bypass this error (never happened before), i added the api-3t.sandbox.paypal.com certificate to my java truststore.
After that, the setCheckout responded correctly with a valid token, but I run into the 'cookie are turned off' problem, for almost 8 hours now. None of my websites is working with the sandbox environment.
I think nothing can be done until PayPal make things clearer with some announcement.
In the new PayPal Sandbox, we want to test the IPN, with a payment_status of denied.
The old PayPal sandbox used to allow us to view the transaction history and Accept/Deny a transaction.
Seems the new Sandbox account hierarchy seems to be confused. When clicking History it redirects back to the REAL paypal.com site, not sandbox.paypal.com, and hence shows the wrong history.
Steps to reproduce:
log via developer.paypal.com
go to "Enter sandbox site" under Applications, now logged into https://paypalmanager.sandbox.paypal.com with the correct account showing, great
Click history, redirected to https://history.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_history, which shows the REAL history. Grrr.
Any ideas? Happy for a hack, just want to fire a deny request for a sandbox transaction so we can test.
It's a known issue - sorry. Trying to change the URL to the Sandbox one still redirects you to the Live site and, occasionally for whatever reason, a security certificate page. A fix is coming soon.
If you want to be updated on the issue as it goes on you create a ticket at PayPal.com/mts, let me know what the ticket number is, and I can grab it.
Edit:
This should be resolved now. I cleared my cache and cookies, closed the browser, and tried it out. I was able to view the transaction history in the Sandbox.
we're having the same issue on our end. What works for us is firing up an incognito window in Google Chrome and login via there. It's a hack, but it works.
I am using the PHP Toolkit for PayPal v0.51
I have setup Pay Pal sandbox accounts and done a test to the ipn.php that comes back as working ok.
I have set the config.inc.php to suit my settings
PHP Version 5.3.3-7+squeeze15 mysql and cURL installed all is working fine.
When using with IE
everything works fine, the transaction is returned to the success.php and in the ipn_success.php
I have it updating the database with the information posted back from Pay Pal.
When using Firefox
Everything works fine till I get to the part where it returns me back to the success.php
I get a Security Warning box open up with the below information within it.
Although this page is encrypted, the information you have entered is to be sent over an unencrypted connection and could easily be read by a third party.
Are you sure you want to continue sending this information?
If I click the warning straight away I get the information posted back and the database is updated.
If I leave this warning for a few seconds, I lose all the information that is posted back to the site for the database.
How can I stop this security warning from showing when using Firefox
The website is using http and not using https so Pay Pay is posting back to a non ssl site.
This is actually a known issue with FireFox that we are currently looking into. If you would like to be notified once the issue is resolved, you can open up a ticket with PayPal's Merchant Technical Support. PPXO-7400
It has been some time since I last set up PayPal payments on a website.
After I opened the new PayPal API and honestly, I am a little bit confused. At the moment, there is each new website considered by PayPal support?
On the following page, https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/applications, I found Test credentials, but I want to set up Live credentials.
In the block with Live credentials, it is written:
Live credentials (currently for U.S. businesses)
We'll email you when your live credentials are ready.
How much it usually takes? And also, what everything is needed for being approved? Is there any way to make it faster or the only thing I can do is to wait?
Thanks
The first part of your question about new websites is unclear. But I would guess that the Classic APIs might be a better choice for your use-case, as the new RESTful API is still in a beta stage with limited features.
I see this is tagged as paypal-adaptive-payments. Adaptive Payments is its own separate API and you can read information on going live with it here: https://www.x.com/developers/paypal/documentation-tools/going-live-with-your-application
For the second part of your question, I am not sure how long it takes but my best guess from similar processes is two business days (Monday-Friday)
Live credentials are only available for US accounts right now as we currently only support America.
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I have two Sandbox test accounts. parijat_kalia#hotmail.com (PERSONAL) and parijat_kalia-facilitator#hotmail.com (BUSINESS). The second one has the API credentials and I am using the NVP API to test our e-commerce subscription plan
. The response I get is :
10501: Invalid Configuration This transaction cannot be processed due to an invalid merchant configuration. Occurs when the billing agreement is disabled or inactive.
Hence, to activate it, I presume I need to log in with this sandbox account into the sandbox website so as to activate the billing agreement. The steps I follow are pretty basic.
Login to developers.paypal.com
Click on Applications tab in the horizontal menu
Click on Sandbox accounts in the vertical menu
Click on the specific accounts 'parijat_kalia-facilitator#hotmail.com' dropdown arrow button.
Click on Sandbox site
When i click on sandbox site, it loads in the PERSONAL account in the email i.e 'parijat_kalia#hotmail.com'. I obviously change this and try to login with the business account credentials. However it does not log me in whatsoever. I have changed the password, literally copy pasted it, but it does not work. Nor does deleting the cookies/clearing the cache and terminating the history help. Also, I am using Chrome, not IE.
Also, I presume this error is with Paypal's sandbox website, since the API call is technically logging me in with the credentials (I infer this since I am getting error 10501).
Can you please tell me what is going wrong?
I had an issue similar to that the other day. I was trying to switch from one developer account to another, but it kept logging me in as the first one. So, I couldn't use any of the sandbox accounts for the 2nd account.
I circumvented this issue by switching to private browsing mode in chrome (ctrl+shift+N) and logging in that way.
I can't guarantee this will fix your issue because it's not the same as mine, but it might help.
Misplacedme's answer worked for me, but I don't have enough rep yet, so I'll reply and add some info.
Chrome: Use an Incognito Window (ctrl+shift+N)
Opera: Use a New Private Window (ctrl+shift+N)
IE: No need for special window. It works as it used to.
Firefox: No need for special window. It works as it used to.
Safari: No need for special window. It works as it used to.
Note: These are all on a Windows 8 PC (sorry, I know most people in their right mind aren't using win8 much less developers)