Paypal sandbox credit card details not working

Question

I generated a Sandbox 'buyer' account in the paypal developer site which automated a credit card no. and expiry date. However this does not seem to work as all I get is a message when testing the transaction:

"You cannot use an email address or card number that belongs to an existing PayPal account. If you have a PayPal account, please log in. If you don't, please change the email address or card number and try again"

If I try to login to paypal using the fake email and password created for the buyer account that also fails.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Os

Answer 1

If you are needing a test credit card number to use during the checkout process through sandbox, you can either log into one of your existing accounts and start the process of adding a credit card. This will pre populate the card number for you. Just copy down the card number and do not add it to the account so that it is not linked. As for the expiration date you can use any valid future date, and and you can use 123 for the CVV2 code. Otherwise you can also use some of the test credit card numbers on this page here for testing with the sandbox. Each time the page is refreshed, new card numbers should be generated.