merchant_guide:testing-subscriptions
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This article provides information on how to " | This article provides information on how to " | ||
- | How and what to test can vary depending on the payment gateway that you have associated with your SubscriptionBridge-based store. So the rest of the article is divided into sections that are specific to each payment system. | + | How and what to test can vary depending on the payment gateway that you have associated with your SubscriptionBridge-based store. So the rest of the article is divided into sections that are specific to each payment system. The natural way to test SubscriptionBridge is by using the Test Payment Gateway, so we'll start there. |
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+ | ===== Test Payment Gateway ===== | ||
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+ | SubscriptionBridge includes a [[payment-gateways: | ||
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+ | * Take your time and familiarize with SubscriptionBridge without having to pay any payment gateway fees | ||
+ | * Research the various recurring payment systems that SubscriptionBridge supports while still being able to test the system | ||
+ | * [[payment-gateways: | ||
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+ | The main limitation of using the Test Gateway is that it does not allow you to test recurring payments, but rather only the user-triggered payments (e.g. purchasing a new subscription, | ||
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To test the system and simulate different scenarios, setup a short subscription (e.g. a subscription with a weekly payment interval and a week-long free trial, for example). You will then see SubscriptionBridge go through a series of " | To test the system and simulate different scenarios, setup a short subscription (e.g. a subscription with a weekly payment interval and a week-long free trial, for example). You will then see SubscriptionBridge go through a series of " | ||
- | ===== PayPal Website Payments Pro ===== | ||
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- | PayPal has a testing (" | ||
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- | The PayPal Sandbox mimics exactly the live PayPal system. So to use test SubscriptionBridge with PayPal: | ||
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- | - Create a PayPal Website Payments Pro sandbox account, [[: | ||
- | - [[: | ||
- | - Requesting your API credentials | ||
- | - Requesting that Recurring Payments are added to your sandbox account | ||
- | - Log into your SubscriptionBridge Merchant Center | ||
- | - Enter the PayPal API credentials on the payment tab | ||
- | You can now use SubscriptionBridge with your sandbox Website Payments Pro account. | + | ===== Using PayPal |
- | ===== PayPal | + | |
- | When you active Website Payments Pro, PayPal | + | PayPal |
- | For more information and to sign up, visit: http://www.paypal.com/ | + | * [[https://developer.paypal.com/ |
+ | * [[:payment-gateways: | ||
+ | * In SubscriptionBridge, | ||
+ | * You can now use SubscriptionBridge with PayPal in a sandbox (testing) environment | ||
- | * The instructions with regard to adding "API Credentials" | + | <note important> |
- | * Note that __you must be signed into your PayPal sandbox account__ in order to be able to successfully use PayPal | + |
merchant_guide/testing-subscriptions.txt · Last modified: 2011/01/13 19:46 by earlyimpact