How do I test Paypal subscription buttons with sandbox?

Question

after 5 hours of research and reading outdated paypal documentation I finally give up!

I need to test a simple paypal subscription button with the paypal sandbox.

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Answer 1

Yes, it's true, PayPal actually thinks creating another button in a separate sandbox system is equivalent to "testing". Erm, no, the point of testing, PayPal, is to test the actual thing, not a copy of the thing you make from scratch in another system. What if something is done differently (by mistake, which is the point of testing) or goes wrong when setting it up in the other system? This is not testing. This is doing a trial.

So in answer to the question, you can't test a PayPal button with sandbox, you can only do trials. The only way to actually test a PayPal button, is to reduce the price to something small while testing, like a cent, or just pay for it and then refund.