How to provoke a failed payment execution?

[suntrop]

I'd like to test an see how the response looks like, if a /v1/payments/payment/XXXX/execute fails.

I know from the docs the state can be approved or failed, but is there some way to provoke a sandbox account to result in a failed state?

[MTS_Jennifer · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Thank you for Posting to the PayPal Merchant Technical Support Community.

We have Negative Testing Available, which will provoke negative responses on purpose to help with your testing.

Here is the guide for Rest API Negative Testing: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/nt-rest/

Please keep in mind that it is in beta so not ever response is available, but it is very useful in testing error conditions.

Thank you,

Jennifer

PayPal

[suntrop]

Thanks for the help and link. Had seen this page before and it seems it does not provide testing for payments endpoints.

Perhaps there is some description on what circumstances a payment can fail. 

[MTS_Jennifer]

Hello,

Here is a link to the request headers and the negative testing that is available:

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/request-headers/

Thank you,

Jennifer

PayPal

[suntrop]

Ok, seems I have misinterpreted the docs for negativ testing. Will try it 🙂