Integration Guide
Table Of Contents
- Authorization & Capture Integration Guide
- Preface
- Overview
- Basic Authorization & Capture on the PayPal Website
- Authorization & Capture API
- Order Authorizations Scenarios
- Best Practices
- Testing PayPal Authorization & Capture
- PayPal Authorization & Capture Statuses
- PayPal Authorization & Capture API Error Codes, Short Messages, and Long Messages
- IPN and PayPal Authorization & Capture
- Glossary
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Testing PayPal Authorization &
Capture
You can test your web- or API-based implementation of PayPal Authorization & Capture in
the PayPal Sandbox. The PayPal Sandbox supports the paymentaction=order variable in
payment flows, the Merchant Services functions, and the Authorization & Capture APIs.
To test your implementation of PayPal Authorization & Capture on the PayPal Sandbox, go
through the payment flow on
https://www.sandbox.paypal.com and pass the variable
paymentaction=order. Then log in to your PayPal Sandbox account and proceed as you
would on the live site to test your flows, or use the Authorization & Capture API to
reauthorize, void, and capture.
For more information on the Sandbox, see the PayPal Sandbox User Guide.
Features Not Supported in the PayPal Sandbox
Authorizations do not expire on the PayPal Sandbox. As with the live PayPal Web Services
API, after 29 days, funds cannot be captured. However, in the Sandbox the status displayed in
Transaction History for expired authorizations does not change, and any unused balance on
hold is not released.