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iCode101
iCode101

Reputation: 414

PayPal sandbox for testing - is it safe?

I've been working with PayPal's Adaptive Payments API for a while and i'm ready to begin testing of my website.

My plan is to create a bunch of PayPal sandbox accounts and give them to family and friends to use on my site.

However, I've noticed that when I log in to a sandbox account (at sandbox.paypal.com), it says 'Logged in as [email protected]' where [email protected] is my actual PayPal account.

Does logging in to the fake sandbox accounts give the testers access to my real PayPal account?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1846

Answers (1)

Matt Cole
Matt Cole

Reputation: 2562

No, it doesn't. Your real PayPal email address shows up at the top of the page because that's what you used to sign into https://developer.paypal.com, and there's a cookie on your computer telling the Sandbox that you signed in with that email address. It won't show up for other users.

Upvotes: 1

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