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Accessing the PayPal Sandbox
and Email
To access the PayPal Sandbox, sign up for a Developer Central account. After becoming a
member of PayPal Developer Central, you access the Sandbox either directly or by launching
it after you log in to Developer Central.
Depending on the PayPal feature you want to test with an application, you need to set up
different types of PayPal accounts: PayPal Personal, Business, or Premier account. See
“Planning the Types of Test Accounts You Need” on page 21.
Signing Up for Developer Central
You do not need an existing, live PayPal account in order to sign up for Developer Central.
1. Go to
https://developer.paypal.com
2. Click Sign Up Now.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions.
4. After you sign up, PayPal sends login instructions to the email address you used to sign-up.
If you have mail filtering enabled in your mail software, the email sent by PayPal might be
filtered out or stored in a folder where you are not expecting it to be. For instance, with
Microsoft Outlook mail software, your filtering might cause the email to be stored in
“Junk” or “Spam.”
Getting to the Sandbox
You have two ways to get to the PayPal Sandbox: direct access or logging in to Developer
Central and then launching the Sandbox.
Regardless of whether you get to the Sandbox directly or by launching it, log in to the Sandbox
as a test user of the necessary type to test the feature you want to test: Personal, Business, or
Premier account.
Accessing the Sandbox Directly
When you log in to Developer Central, you have the option to get to the Sandbox directly at
https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/. At the Developer Central login page, click Log me in
automatically, as shown in Figure 2.1, “Login for PayPal Developer Central” on page 18.
NOTE: To access the Sandbox directly, you must enable cookies in your browser.