Paypal Classic API: Test accounts

Question

I need to simulate a buyer transaction in my paypal sandbox environment. Essentially, a buyer is a user that decides to subscribe to my service, which is done using the Paypal NVP API method: DoDirectPayment.

Reading the documentation, I gather that a buyer in this case will essentially be a Personal account, and basically to make any kind of api call, I require API credentials. However, the PAYPAL Developer website does not show any kind of API credentials for this personal account :

I do have a business account, and that does state the corresponding API credentials. The link I am referring to is : https://www.x.com/developers/paypal/documentation-tools/ug_sandbox#credentials

where it states that the API credentials are specified for all accounts.

The only rationale I have behind this are :

a) personal accounts do not get API credentials,

b) I need to simulate a DoDirectPayment API with my business account API credentials, but documentation states that to simulate a buyer transaction I must use a personal account.

c) I need to set API credentials manually somehow.

Any leads?

Answer 1

You would use your API credentials from your business account in the API call. As for the buyer, you would not be paying with a PayPal account if you are using the DoDirectPayment API. You would be using a credit card. You should be able to use any of the card numbers below to test with. I juse use a Mod 10 check to generate the card numbers. You can just use any valid future date for the exp date, and use 123 for the card security code.

Visa 4539261585419872 4532063588063153 4024007125711126 4916126222581496 4916335290325039 4929693226575720 4916573003035640 4485204470227566 4024007102338976 4024007148183980