Testing

Our sandbox environment provides an excellent opportunity to make sure everything is working perfectly. Sign up for your test account, then use the information on this page to try out your integration before going live.\ Get test account

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Data retention
Data is held in sandbox for 7 days before being deleted. Unused accounts are deleted after one month of inactivity.

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I've finished testing. How do I go live?
To get started, contact your dedicated sales manager, or get in touch with our sales team.

Test keys

Always use your test keys when testing your integration, this is how we know to link all test payments to your sandbox account. You can find your test keys in our sandbox version of the Hub under your channel settings — test keys use the prefix sk_test and pk_test.

Test card numbers

Genuine card numbers will produce an error in your test environment. To simulate payments, use any of the following test card details provided in the table below.

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Expiry date
Use any future expiry date (mm/yy) with our test cards.

Credit cards

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If you use any of the following Visa or Mastercard cards in a 3D Secure payment request, they will default to 3DS 2.0 authentication.

Debit cards

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If you use one of the cards below to test a 3D Secure payment, it will default to 3DS 2.0 authentication.

Commercial cards

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If you use one of the cards below to test a 3D Secure payment, it will default to 3DS 2.0 authentication.

Non-3DS enabled cards

If you want to test a card payment without 3D Secure authentication, use one of the following cards with a transaction value of 5000 or 5029.

Response codes

Create a payment with the amounts in the table below to simulate and trigger the listed response codes. To use them, just change the amount of your test payment. If you use any other amount, your payment will return as approved (response code 10000).

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If an amount contains an x you can replace it with any number of your choosing, for example, xxx05 could be used as 12305.

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Testing the 2011 and 2013 amounts
When testing the amounts 2011 and 2013, the response codes 200R1 and 200R3 will only be returned on the first attempt. Additionally, if multiple attempts are made using a non-Visa credit card, this will lead to the card being locally blacklisted. You will need to whitelist it via the risk settings.

Bypassing the response codes

You can turn off this feature so that the payment will be approved no matter which amount is provided. To do so, simply set the card's expiry date to 01/2099.

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Please note:

Response codes related to 3D Secure (xxx150, 6900, and 5000 - 5029) will not be bypassed.

Address Verification Service (AVS) check

You can simulate various AVS checks by including any of the following values in address_line1 of billing_address in a payment request.

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Any other value in the address_line1 field will return AVS check S.

CVV check

You can simulate various CVV checks by including any of the following values as the card CVV in a payment request.

3D Secure

When simulating a 3D Secure (3DS) payment, you will receive a redirect URL to a 3DS Authentication simulator page. The password for the 3DS simulator is Checkout1!.

3DS test cards

By default, the simulator will return a successful authentication response. If you want to test a different flow or transaction status, use one of the card numbers below in your authentication request.

Frictionless flow

Challenge flow

3DS 1.0 fallback

Chargebacks

You can simulate a chargeback by using the following payment methods and corresponding amounts in a payment request. Any of the test card numbers listed here will work.

Testing alternative payment methods

To test the below alternative payment methods, please follow the links to the methods' testing details.

Cards

• Bancontact
• KNET
• QPay

Wallets

• Alipay
• Apple Pay
• BenefitPay
• Google Pay
• PayPal

Cash and ATM payment

• Boleto Bancário
• Fawry
• Multibanco
• OXXO

Bank transfers

• EPS
• Giropay
• iDEAL
• Przelewy24

Direct debit

• ACH
• SEPA Direct Debit

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