PayPal Sandbox for Free Version of s2Member?

The paypal sandbox for the free version doesn’t seem to work. In the settings it reads as follows:

Developer/Sandbox Testing?
No Yes, enable support for Sandbox testing.
Only enable this if you’ve provided Sandbox credentials above.
This puts the API, IPN, PDT and Form/Button Generators all into Sandbox mode.
See: PayPal® Developers

I’m not sure what it means. Do I have to create an API key while logged in my PayPal Sandbox acct? …hrmm, thinking while typing…let me try that…. el..oh…el..

Although logical, I didn’t realize you can get credentials specific to your paypal sandbox acct… Login to your sandbox acct and choose: “API and Payment Card Credentials”. Copy/Paste into the settings of s2member and enable sandbox mode.

HOWEVER,

When I do the above, I still have the same problem. When attempting to use a paypal button, it just pushes me to the sandbox_user’s main page. I never get to the checkout page no matter what I try.

Any suggestions?

• This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by  Dan Martinez.

RESOLVED

What I had to do was recreate the paypal buttons from the “s2Member –> PayPal Buttons” options menu AFTER I changed the settings to use a paypal-sandbox Seller account (credentials created within paypal sandbox).

Then, when I tested the button I was getting missing field errors from PayPal. This appeared to occur because either WordPress or one of my plugins was messing with the generated button code. So, what I did was install the phpExec mod so that I could use PHP in my pages.

Next, I created a new page using the php include tags:
[php]
include(‘./private_directory/subscription/new_user_signup.php’);
[/php]

Lastly, I created the page: ‘new_user_signup.php’ (rename to your liking..) in which I put the newly generated paypal-sandbox button code (from the s2member paypal button page).

Finally, the effing thing worked… now I can test shiz out. Hope this helps others…

• This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by  Dan Martinez.

Hello Dan, glad you solved your problem.

I just wanted to say, I really suggest you don’t use the PayPal sandbox, it just creates problems that are not worth fixing since they are not gonna exist in a real installation. Instead I suggest you use 1 cent buttons so that everything works, but you don’t lose or use a lot of money.

Hope this helps. :)

Eduan,

Funny thing you suggested that because that’s exactly what I ended up doing. The reason was because after getting the sandbox running smoothly, I was unable to get the required emails to the test acct to finalize new memberships. It would require me doing more mods and well… wasted time.

:)

Yeah it really isn’t worth to integrate with it right now.