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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 "events" associated with the subscription (E.g. trial expiration reminder, subscription payment notifications, etc.). Note that Authorize.Net requires that the billing period be weekly or longer (i.e. you cannot setup a daily subscription, although that would be useful for testing purposes). | 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 "events" associated with the subscription (E.g. trial expiration reminder, subscription payment notifications, etc.). Note that Authorize.Net requires that the billing period be weekly or longer (i.e. you cannot setup a daily subscription, although that would be useful for testing purposes). |
| ===== PayPal Website Payments Pro ===== | |
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| PayPal has a testing ("sandbox") environment. You can find it at https://developer.paypal.com/ | ===== Using PayPal in a testing environment ===== |
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| The PayPal Sandbox mimics exactly the live PayPal system. So to use test SubscriptionBridge with PayPal: | PayPal has a testing ("sandbox") environment: you can [[https://developer.paypal.com/cgi-bin/devscr?cmd=_signup-run|sign up for a PayPal sandbox account]] at any time. __The PayPal Sandbox mimics exactly the live PayPal system__. So to test SubscriptionBridge with PayPal: |
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| - Create a PayPal Website Payments Pro sandbox account, [[payment-gateways:paypal#setting-up-website-payments-pro|just like you would with a regular account]] | * [[https://developer.paypal.com/cgi-bin/devscr?cmd=_signup-run|Sign up for a PayPal sandbox account]] |
| - [[payment-gateways:paypal|Set it up]] exactly as you would with your "live" account. This includes... | * Once you have activated your sandbox account, create a seller account within it (from your sandbox account, you can create fictitious accounts for both buyers and sellers, so you can test both sides) |
| - Requesting your API credentials | * After creating a fictitious seller account, click on API Credentials on the left side, as shown below |
| - 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 | |
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| You can now use SubscriptionBridge with your sandbox Website Payments Pro account. | {{:merchant_guide:sbpaypal_sandbox.png|PayPal sandbox}} |
| ===== PayPal Express ===== | |
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| When you active Website Payments Pro, PayPal Express Checkout is activated automatically. Alternatively, you can configure it separately, as a stand-alone system, even without signing up for Website Payments Pro. | * In SubscriptionBridge, as your PayPal credentials, enter the credentials that you have obtained from the new Sandbox account that you have just created. |
| | * You can now use SubscriptionBridge with PayPal in a sandbox (testing) environment |
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| For more information and to sign up, visit: http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_additional-payment-overview-outside | <note important>NOTE: to successfully submit orders using the PayPal sandbox, you must use a buyer user created using your sandbox account, and __you must be signed into your PayPal sandbox account__ at the time you place the order. Otherwise, you will receive an error.</note> |
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| * The instructions with regard to adding "API Credentials" to your SubscriptionBridge store are the same as those for Website Payments Pro. | |
| * Note that __you must be signed into your PayPal sandbox account__ in order to be able to successfully use PayPal Express Checkout in a test mode. | |
