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Testing Express Checkout
Overview
The test environment allows you to test the entire flow of your Express Checkout integration,
including the redirect to PayPal and the return back to your website.
In the test environment for Express Checkout, you can select a predefined buyer, customize
the simulated PayPal buyer login page, and redirect the buyer to that login page. The buyer can
log in and enter shipping information.
The test environment provides simulations of the following PayPal website pages:
z Login page
z Review Your PayPal Information page
The test environment also includes simulated buyer accounts that are set up in advance.
After logging in and confirming funding and shipping information, the buyer is redirected
back to your website to the RETURNURL (or CANCELURL) value that you declared in the call to
Set Express Checkout.
Because the test environment is set up in advance for you – and because you do not have a true
Website Payments Pro Payflow Edition merchant account – standard responses are returned
regardless of the input parameters or PayPal merchant profile configuration values you may
have set in the production environment.
NOTE: Express Checkout requires that you set parameters as described in the Payflow Pro
Developer’s Guide
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In this Chapter
z “Changing HOSTADDRESS for Testing” on page 13
z “Redirecting the Buyer to the PayPal Login Page” on page 14
z “Selecting a Predefined Buyer for Testing” on page 14
z “Setting Up the Test PayPal Login Page” on page 18
z “Express Checkout Parameters” on page 19
Changing HOSTADDRESS for Testing
To test your integration, simply change the host address to point to the test environment in
your website application.
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