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I have my Sandbox Seller and Purchaser accounts in place.
I put the Sandbox Seller email in eStore.
When I purchased with the Sandbox Purchaser account, I noticed a few things.
When Testing a physical product (buy now w/ variations):
1. When the payment was completed, I had to click “Return to” from the Paypal page. I THOUGHT this would automatically redirect to my Thank You page.
The Thank You Page is an upsell to a membership. The membership is $0 for first 30 days, and $XX for 5 payments every 30 days.
When Testing the purchase of the Membership:
1. After the subscription payment was completed, it went to the home page.
2. Because I’m using a Sandbox email, I don’t get any of the emails to finish the registration.
Do you think it would work if I created an email that was the same as my Sandbox email? Would I get the registration emails? Or do they just not send out when in Sandbox mode?
If that would work, would I need to delete the transaction, etc. from the initial test before conducting a second test?
When Testing with Sandbox, it does not appear to do anything with the autoresponder settings. Is the only way to test he full system to do the 1 cent thing and test with real accounts?
Thanks!
Velma
“When the payment was completed, I had to click “Return to” from the Paypal page. I THOUGHT this would automatically redirect to my Thank You page” – Nope, the customer needs time to deal with the payment confirmation data shown to them on the payment confirmation page on PayPal. Remember, not all the customers will have a PayPal account (the ones that pay using a credit card) so when they leave this page they have no way to get this info.
Sandbox account has limitations when it comes to emailing (it’s a virtual email so email can get routed to it).
Sandbox testing is good but it’s best to do an one cent live transaction once you are confident that everything is setup correctly and you are nearly ready to go live.
I had tried the $0.01 price option, but Paypal won’t let me pay to the same paypal email address.
Tim
One way might be to setup a secondary email to the same paypal account and use that as the buyer. As you may know, paypal allows you to have other email addresses for your account but it uses only one as the “primary”.
Alternatively if possible, try using a friend’s or family member’s account as the seller.
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