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Posted on
Jun-22-2021
02:36 PM
I have a project that I have been working and I utilize the PayPal API to accept payments. It is only hooked up to a sandbox right now. If a user actually used a real credit card, nothing could ever get processed, correct? It just uses an angorithm to make sure the card 'could' be processed for real. I know it is always recommended to use fake generated cc numbers, I just want to make sure no real cc could ever get charged. Thanks.
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MTS_Justin
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Jun-24-2021
05:35 AM
Hello,
Sandbox doesn't communicate with external card vendors at all, so no real-world card can be charged.
I would still highly recommend not adding real-world financial information to a sandbox account. We have ficticious data inserted into the accounts when they're created and we provide a card generator tool on our developer site which can be used to generate card details for testing purposes.
https://developer.paypal.com/developer/creditCardGenerator
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Sandbox doesn't communicate with external card vendors at all, so no real-world card can be charged.
I would still highly recommend not adding real-world financial information to a sandbox account. We have ficticious data inserted into the accounts when they're created and we provide a card generator tool on our developer site which can be used to generate card details for testing purposes.
https://developer.paypal.com/developer/creditCardGenerator
Thanks !
Was my post helpful? If so, please give me a kudos!
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