2012

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Revision History
Revision history for PayPal Sandbox User Guide.
Date Description
April 2012 Removed obsolete chapter, “Linking Your Sandbox with Your X.com Account.”
Updated references to Website Payments Standard and Website Payments Pro to
PayPal Payments Standard and PayPal Payments Pro, respectively.
December 2011 Added corrections concerning API testing and negative testing.
October 2010 Added a chapter about linking Sandbox accounts of x.com accounts.
July 2010 Added additional information about the use of the email address field when
creating preconfigured accounts.
October 2009 Added information about creating preconfigured accounts, which now works for
more countries. Removed chapter about “Testing Recurring Payments” because it
is no longer relevant.
September 2008 Added information about testing payment review and updated screens related to
payment review.
April 2008 Added information about the Instant Payment Notification simulator, described
changes to the Sandbox user interface, and corrected all known problems.
December 2007 Added information about the account reset feature, changed screens to reflect
changes in the user interface, and corrected all known problems.
September 2007 Changed screens to reflect new user interface, added information about testing
recurring payments, and corrected all known problems.
August 2007 Changed PayPal logo and corrected all known problems.
May 2007 Revised manual to reflect new “autocreated” accounts feature.
April 2007 Added chapters on negative testing and testing APIs using the Express Checkout
NVP API. Added new section on handling pending transactions and made
miscellaneous changes.
July 2006 Correction of variable name ‘ipn_test,” which should be “test_ipn”.
June 2006 Correction of Sort Code necessary to test UK accounts in Sandbox. Proper Sort
Code is 609204.
December 2005 Miscellaneous corrections.