How can I test my Paypal payment link?

18 years ago

I have two PayPal accounts for this purpose. One is my business account in my name and the other is a personal account in my husband's name and with a separate bank account. It comes in really handy, especially to test PayPal links.

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Solidsnake

Banned 18 years ago

Originally Posted by AussieT

I want to test my paypal payment link. What is the best way to do this?

PayPal won't let me log in as the buyer and the seller.

I think I read somewhere that there is way to test everything.

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AussieT

Let me know your link and I will test it for you...

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Money Grows Online

18 years ago

Ditto, What Rob Ferrall said. I was going to tell you the same thing.

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samstephens

18 years ago

Rob's suggestion number 1 is what I use all the time.

Having a business/premier and a personal Paypal account comes in handy all the time, so it's worth setting it up. Remember your personal Paypal account is free, and if you just do $0.01 tests, a few bucks in it will last a lifetime.

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Sam

PS. As a slight aside, keep in mind that using the Paypal Sandbox can actually introduce errors that don't exist in the live system. Thats why I'd prefer to test live.

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joecool1972 18 years ago

Great advice, this is something that has bugged me before.
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- zeurois 18 years ago
  
  You can use paypal's sandbox.
  
  If you don't have a developer account create one and you will be able to run as many tests as you want without any external help and without dealing with commissions or refunds.
  
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  Neil Morgan 18 years ago
  
  I use method [1] too.
  
  I don't use the Sandbox because it doesn't let me test the actual process that customers will use.
  
  It doesn't matter how much testing you do with a new system - you still worry until the first sale comes in successfully from a real customer, and they're often that's day's customer who forgets to click the 'return to merchant' button LOL!
  
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  DanGTD 18 years ago
  
  Paypal Sandbox, if you need to run multiple tests to get it going exactly how you want.
  Otherwise, with 2 real accounts, you'll end up paying a lot in fees.
  
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  lelaiskandar 18 years ago
  
  I always use paypal sandbox but I use real email address so that I can confirm that everything is okay.
  
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Mark Brian

18 years ago

I use #3 method however it's quite technical.

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cypherslock

18 years ago

Is there a way to just make a link instead of a button? IE Click here to order?

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Jose Delgado

18 years ago

Originally Posted by Rob Ferrall

Yes - just login to PayPal and create a 'buy it now' button. I had to make an email link for a client earlier because my server was down. PayPal has really cleaned up their links, too. The links look like this now:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=xxxxx

Oh man that button is Awesome!

Now people can post actual encrypted buttons on their WSO's.

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johnsamuels

18 years ago

I was all geared up to make a thread to answer this question, but the search function has saved the day.

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Louis Raven

18 years ago

You can't! well, you can but not easily.

You'll find yourself creating 2 whole new accounts and then you have to login as the seller and create a whole new setup/button.

Then you'll have to login with your buyer account, find the sellers butto...

You know what? take a chance on the button and assume it's working.

Louis
(megafrustrated after doing all above only to find it doesn't let you test subscription buttons accurately)