Testing payment gateways - how do you do it?

Izi · 12 May 2010 at 17:16

I always find testing payment gateways a pain in the chuff.

How do you all test them? Code - > Deploy - > test cycle?

Tetsujin · 15 May 2010 at 10:33

Not to be facetious but I write the code and run it and see if it works?

akakjs · 15 May 2010 at 15:01

nearly every payment gateway has a test system. I'd code the payment gateway a stand-alone set of classes, write unit tests for them and run that against their test system. You should be able to do this all from your development PC without touching a production server.

akakjs

sandeep · 15 May 2010 at 17:28

Mainly just search for the name of the company followed by sandbox and you get their testing environments.

Here's a few I got out of a search

Paypal: https://developer.paypal.com/

2Checkout: http://developers.2checkout.com/

Google Checkout: http://sandbox.google.com/checkout

GravyMonster · 15 May 2010 at 22:29

akakjs said:
nearly every payment gateway has a test system. I'd code the payment gateway a stand-alone set of classes, write unit tests for them and run that against their test system. You should be able to do this all from your development PC without touching a production server.

akakjs

Bang on. Develop all your payment integration classes separately from your main project. That way you can easily transfer them to a later project should another client come along who wants to use the same gateway.

Izi · 16 May 2010 at 13:36

sorry i should have been more precise, i was referring to callbacks to an actual domain. you cant test it on a local host, so every time you want to test you have to upload to a production server, under a test domain.

akakjs · 16 May 2010 at 14:36

Izi said:
sorry i should have been more precise, i was referring to callbacks to an actual domain. you cant test it on a local host, so every time you want to test you have to upload to a production server, under a test domain.

mm if we're talking 3D Secure call-backs, you might be able to test it by hacking your hosts file. Otherwise maybe the right thing might be to would be setup a domain just for testing.

akakjs