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Your store's PayPal integration can be set to work in test mode as follows:
Website Payments Standard:
| 1. | Go to the PayPal configuration page in X-Cart Admin zone. |
| 2. | From the 'Settings' dialog box, select the desired option ('Website Payments Standard'). |
| 3. | Adjust the configuration fields for the selected option: |
| ▪ | Specify your Sandbox Business account. |
| ▪ | Configure the fields 'Payment for', 'Currency', 'Order prefix' as desired. |
| ▪ | Set PayPal operating mode to 'Test'. |
| 5. | Click the Update button to save the changes. |
Website Payments Pro and Express Checkout used as an additional payment option:
| 1. | Log in to your Sandbox Business account to obtain API credentials for the test mode (The Sandbox Business account backoffice is organized similarly to the backoffice of your production PayPal Business account, so API credentials for the test mode can be obtained the same way as described in the section 'Setting up Your API Access', with the difference that the Business account in the Sandbox should be used instead of the production account). |
| 2. | Go to the PayPal configuration page in X-Cart Admin zone. |
| 3. | From the 'Settings' dialog box, select the desired option ('Website Payments Pro' or 'Express Checkout'). |
| 4. | Adjust the configuration fields for the selected option: |
| ▪ | Specify the API access credentials as provided by your Sandbox Business account. |
| ▪ | Configure the fields 'Currency' and 'Order prefix' as desired. |
| ▪ | Set PayPal operating mode to 'Test'. |
| 5. | Click the Update button to save the changes. |
Website Payments Pro Payflow Edition:
| 1. | Go to the PayPal configuration page in X-Cart Admin zone. |
| 2. | From the 'Settings' dialog box, select the desired option ('Website Payments Pro Payflow Edition'). |
| 3. | Adjust the configuration fields for the selected option: |
| ▪ | Configure the fields 'Vendor', 'Partner', 'User' and 'Password'. |
| ▪ | Configure the fields 'Currency' and 'Order prefix' as desired. |
| ▪ | Set PayPal operating mode to 'Test'. |
| 6. | Click the Update button to save the changes. |
When you return to the list of your store's payment methods after setting PayPal to work in test mode as described above, there should be a warning message below the 'PayPal' entry:
This is normal when X-Cart's PayPal integration is in test mode. Now you can perform test PayPal transactions.
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