Don't forget those recurring sandbox payments!

[wzp]

This morning, I awoke to a series of “callback failed” messages in my inbox. At first, I thought I was being hacked, because none of the information made sense… it looked like someone was trying to fake a callback message to my site. Especially since the originating IP address was a localhost.

To make a long story short, I had used the PayPal sandbox some time ago to test some recurring payments (subscriptions). They had come up for renewal, and so the sandbox, being a replica of PayPal, did what it was supposed to do… try to make a recurring payment, to a now “live” site!

Had to recover my sandbox passwords, login and then “cancel” the recurring payments.

Thought I’d mention this, to save some others a few hours of anxiety.

[amin007]

LOL.. yeah good one.

[kimjcastleberry]

Hehe, good reminder!

[jeremyers1]

I have this issue too. How do I cancel the recurring payment?

[wzp]

“…Had to recover my sandbox passwords, login and then “cancel” the recurring payments.”

Log into the sandbox as the test user and then “cancel” the subscription, the same way as if it was the real PayPal site.

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