Test credit card numbers for use with PayPal sandbox

Question

I m having trouble testing credit card payments with PayPal s sandbox  When viewing a buyer s sandbox account s profile from within developer paypal com  I can see the following credit card details     Although  when using these details on the payment screen  I get the message  We re sorry  we can t complete this payment  Please try another card      I have read in other questions that you should be able to log into a sandbox account  go to add an additional credit card and it should generate some test numbers for you    However  when I do this  all of the fields are blank     I have also tried using some  valid  numbers  i e  they pass the Luhn algorithm   but none of those worked for me either   I ve also tried the numbers listed on this page  https   www paypalobjects com en US vhelp paypalmanager help credit card numbers htm - They didn t work   I ve tried both US and UK accounts  No luck   Any ideas

User · Answer

A bit late in the game but just in case it helps anyone.

If you are testing using the Sandbox and on the payment page you want to test payments NOT using a PayPal account but using the "Pay with Debit or Credit Card option" (i.e. when a regular Joe/Jane, NOT PayPal users, want to buy your stuff) and want to save yourself some time: just go to a site like http://www.getcreditcardnumbers.com/ and get numbers from there. You can use any Expiry date (in the future) and any numeric CCV (123 works).

The "test credit card numbers" in the PayPal documentation are just another brick in their infuriating wall of convoluted stuff.

I got the url above from PayPal's tech support.

Tested using a simple Hosted button and IPN. Good luck.

User · Answer

If a credit card is already added to a PayPal account then it won t let you use that card to process directly with Payments Advanced   The system expects buyers to login to PayPal and just choose that credit card as their funding source if they want to pay with it     As for testing on the sandbox  I ve always used old  expired credit cards I have laying around and they seem to work fine for me     You could always try the ones starting on page 87 of the PayFlow documentation  too   They should work

User · Answer

It turns out  after messing around with all of the settings in the test business account  that one  or more  of the fraud related settings in the payment receiving preferences   security settings screens were causing the test payments to fail  without any useful error

User · Answer

In case anyone else comes across this in a search for an answer     The test numbers listed in various places no longer work in the Sandbox   PayPal have the same checks in place now so that a card cannot be linked to more than one account   Go here and get a number generated   Use any expiry date and CVV  https   ppmts custhelp com app answers detail a id 750   It s worked every time for me so far

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