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Test credit card numbers for use with PayPal sandbox

I'm having trouble testing credit card payments with PayPal's sandbox. When viewing a buyer's sandbox account's profile from within developer.paypal.com, I can see the following credit card details:

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Although, when using these details on the payment screen, I get the message "We're sorry, we can't complete this payment. Please try another card."

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I have read in other questions that you should be able to log into a sandbox account, go to add an additional credit card and it should generate some test numbers for you... However, when I do this, all of the fields are blank:

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I have also tried using some "valid" numbers (i.e. they pass the Luhn algorithm), but none of those worked for me either.

I've also tried the numbers listed on this page: https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/vhelp/paypalmanager_help/credit_card_numbers.htm - They didn't work.

I've tried both US and UK accounts. No luck.

Any ideas?

Solution

  • It turns out, after messing around with all of the settings in the test business account, that one (or more) of the fraud related settings in the payment receiving preferences / security settings screens were causing the test payments to fail (without any useful error).