How to Create a PayPal Sandbox Account

July 18, 2008

I’ve been using PayPal for the last couple of years for buying, invoicing and receiving payments from customers. As websites and web site design and development continue to increase PayPal has become the way to accept payment for a lot of businesses, possibly yours as well. It has also become very customizable to meet the growing and changing demands of its customer base to the point where you can customize it in any fashion you’d like. And with this ability comes the PayPal Sandbox account.

What does “Sandbox” mean?

Sandbox refers to a term used in development that allows developers or users to test their PayPal system and greatly customize it. You can see why this is a great idea if you’ve ever tried to test a third party application like PayPal.

Why should I get a PayPal Sandbox Account?

If you work with PayPal, have an ecommerce site that uses PayPal or you are interested in testing PayPal then getting a PayPal Sandbox Account is a good idea because it allows you to test transactions, understand the flow of how a transaction process occurs and figure out difficult bugs with your ecommerce platform.

Where can I get a PayPal Sandbox account?

You can get a PayPal Sandbox account by clicking here…

https://developer.paypal.com/

With more then 100,000,000 people using PayPal it makes sense that businesses want to offer this as a payment option to their customers and as a way to run their business.

Luc

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