The Sandbox feature is a safe testing environment that allows you to simulate purchases without processing real payments. It’s especially useful when you're setting up your school and want to ensure that your checkout process, invoices, and payment flow are working smoothly. While in Sandbox mode:
- You can test buying courses as a user.
- You’ll receive a sample invoice after the test purchase.
- No real credit card transactions are processed.
In this article, we will delve deeper into leveraging Sandbox for test purchases, providing comprehensive insights for smooth execution.
1. Navigate to Settings → Financial → Payment gateway and activate Sandbox (it is activated by default if you have not selected a payment gateway).
2. Sign up for your own school as a simple user.
3. Find your favorite product and click on Enroll/Add to cart.
4. On the Payment page/ Cart you will notice that the credit card details are prefilled for you with some test credentials. These credentials are not editable and are prefilled automatically -if you hover over the payment method you will also see a darker background appear with the information that the form is prefilled for testing purposes.
5. Click on Buy, and you have now "purchased" a course using the Sandbox mode as your payment gateway.
Once you complete the "payment," you will receive your invoice. You can alternate any field that you want to change in your admin settings. You can see how to customize your invoices here.
In case you need more information about our available payment gateways, you can check this article here.
- The Sandbox option needs to be deactivated when the school goes live, to avoid paid course access without payment since when in sandbox mode, no credit cards will actually be processed. The Sandbox mode is offered only to test the payment flow & generate sample invoices.
- With the Sandbox option, you can only test course purchases and not subscriptions/installments. For subscriptions/installments, it is required to activate Stripe as your payment gateway.