How to test credit card interactions?

Question

After reading this answer, I wonder if there\'s a way to get a \"testing\" credit card number. One that you can experiment with but that doesn\'t actually charge anything.<

Answer 1

Depending on your payment gateway, there are two ways to test a transaction.

For example, with authorize.net, if you send "X_TEST_TRANSACTION=true" (or something like that, its been a long time), with your POST, it will run it in test mode.

They also provide a test VISA and test Mastercard number that will always come back as approved if in test mode, and declined in production mode.

Look at your gateway API documentation, it will be clearly detailed there.