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landons
landons

Reputation: 9547

PayPal Sandbox - Multiple Issues

[rant] I've about had it with the new PayPal dev environment. While it looks cool, there are several serious issues that makes it an embarrassing release for PayPal [/rant]

Main Issue: Test funds 0 USD, no matter what I do

I've tried the following:

Other issues / complaints:

Shouldn't have to login to a real PayPal account to QA a checkout workflow

My client could create her own test account and use that, but then I'd have to change the business email address for the checkout workflow. We can't test concurrently without one of us having access to the other's real PayPal account. This change was a good idea in theory, but the implementation isn't there yet.

Serious cookie issues

It's bad enough that the "Logout" function (https://developer.paypal.com/cgi-bin/devscr?cmd=_logout) gives a 503 error. We literally have to clear cookies constantly just to rule out that whatever bug isn't caused by cookies.

Can't login to sandbox site from developer test accounts page

There's a nice little helper link that says "Sandbox Site" under each test account. One would think that clicking on it would log you into the sandbox with that account. Nope.

WTF, PayPal

I've had various issues (other than the ones listed here) since the new developer site was launched early this month. Not once have I seen a formal recognition of issues from PayPal. A little status message of "Hey, we're working on it!" would give me what I need to explain my delays to clients.

I absolutely love the new interface. I would love it even more if it worked.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2379

Answers (1)

PayPal_Jared
PayPal_Jared

Reputation: 685

Main Issue: Test funds 0 USD, no matter what I do

We are currently working on a fix to address this issue. I will have additional details to share regarding this issue later today. I will be sure to update my answer as soon as I have an update. At this point, you will experience intermittent success when creating new accounts. As a workaround, you can log into one of your test accounts and add funds from a bank account manually. Once you initiate the transfer, go into the details of that transaction and clear the pending transfer. This should allow you to add funds to your account.

Update: This issue should now be resolved.

Shouldn't have to login to a real PayPal account to QA a checkout workflow

We understand that it is frustrating to have to log in using PayPal access using a live PayPal account. This does however eliminate the need to have to maintain two separate accounts for PayPal.com and developer.paypal.com. I will make sure to share this feedback with our Sandbox team.

Serious cookie issues

We are working to address the log in issues that are causing these errors. I will make sure to update this question as soon as I have additional details on the fix for this issue. As you mentioned the workaround is to clear cache and cookies or try another web browser.

Update: This issue should also be resolved. Please let me know if you experience any issues while logging in.

Can't login to sandbox site from developer test accounts page

This is great feedback. I will share this with our Sandbox team to see if we can possibly address this problem in a future release.

Error when clicking on the Profile page in Sandbox

This was a known issue and a fix was done last night to address this problem. You should no longer receive errors when attempting to access the profile page in a sandbox account.

Thanks,

Upvotes: 3

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