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Testing PayPal Payments
Testing PayPal Payments
By Paul

Testing payments with PayPal is quite complicated, since they require using their distinct sandbox area. Follow this procedure.

1. Register at developer.paypal.com
2. If it doesn't offer to automatically set up personal and business test accounts for you, create a personal account (test user to pay) and business account (test user to sell) and confirm your emails for them via the "email" tab of developer central and add a credit card (use the default credit card info it gives you).
3. At the WSN admin panel, Admin -> Revenue -> Sponsorship, enter the corresponding email for your test business sandbox paypal account.
4. At Admin -> Miscellaneous -> Tweaks Editor, enable the paypalsandbox tweak.
5. Do your test purchases. Note you have to be logged in at developer.paypal.com in a background tab while testing trial payments.
6. When done, be sure you turn off the paypalsandbox tweak and re-enter your proper live payments email at Admin -> Revenue -> Sponsorship.

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Submitted: 05/30/06 (Edited 10/17/11)

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