PP Sandbox – Buyer account not decrementing?

Hi all,

I have run a couple of test transactions in PayPal Sandbox.

I created a buyer according to the instructions, who has a Visa and an account balance of 9999.

I created the “seller” (a website payments pro) account.

For both of the test purchases on my site, the seller account saw funds taken in.

However, the buyer accounts did not decrement by the amount paid.

Is that correct or am I missing something?

Thank you.

Bran

Hi Bran.

I’m not sure how the sandbox manages those funds. I don’t like using the sandox because it’s not exactly the same as the live transactions, so I tend to just run live transactions for cents in my tests. If you try a real payment for a cent, do you see the charge made to your card or PayPal account?

Cristian,

What you are saying makes sense. I can confirm that funds continue to be received into the PPro account as scheduled, so it must just be a PayPal Sandbox quirk. So I’m just going to pay attention to that.

I haven’t hooked up with a PPro account yet for real so I’m going to take it on faith – I’ll be blind to the buyer’s accounts anyway….

As always that you for the response.

Bran

No problem, Bran.

By the way, if you have subscribers from your PayPal Standard account, ask the PayPal support what happens once you switch to Pro. It’s good that make sure how that works before the change.

Also, I’ve just seen a user report that PayPal Pro now doesn’t have the recurring payments that it used to and there’s a new service to replace it. Jason’s looking into that, but I thought I’d let you know.

Please check those with PayPal if you’ll have recurring payments, but I don’t think it’ll be a problem with buy-now transactions.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by  Cristián Lávaque.