Sandbox - How to Exit?

[o1kric]

Hi,

I have had a sandbox account on my web page for a while, and now I want it to go live. How do I do this please? I have typed my live PayPal account details into the web page but when I go to my web site online the Sandbox account is still there!

Help appreciated 🙂

Thanks,

Kris

[PayPal_Frank]

Hi o1kric,

Welcome to the community. 🙂

It depends on what type of PayPal service you are using.  If you are using PayPal Payments Standard buttons, you'll  need to replace

<form action="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">

with

<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">

Also the secure merchant ID or email will need to be changed to the live site information by changing this line of code in the button:

<input type="hidden" name="business" value="secure merchant ID or email">

This will only work with unencrypted, non-hosted PayPal buttons.  If you created the buttons as hosted buttons, they will need to be recreated on your live PayPal account.

If you are using a 3rd party shopping cart, you may need to toggle a "testing" or "sandbox" option in the shopping cart settings.

If you are using an API based solution that you implemented yourself, you'll want to make sure that the sandbox API credentials are replaced with the live site API credentials and the API end points are changed to the live site.

API End-points

I hope this helps. 🙂

- Frank