Before you start processing live payments, you will need to test your implementation. It is critically important to ensure your system behaves as expected under a range of different possible scenarios. Failure to detect problems in your integration ahead of public release could lead to payments being abandoned on your website!
To help, we provide you with a test site reference that allows you to process test transactions in our sandbox environment. We simulate a bank interface, which listens for incoming requests from your test site, and responds in the way a real bank would.
What should I test?
What you will need to test depends entirely on the nature of your integration, but here are some ideas to help you get started.
From the customer’s perspective:
- Ensure the customer is able to complete transactions on desktop and mobile devices.
- Ensure that if an error occurs (such as a declined payment or invalid field), an error message is clearly displayed in the browser and that the customer is able try again if needed.
- Ensure that any customisation made to the appearance of the page (e.g. through HTML, JavaScript or CSS) is applied correctly.
- Ensure your website correctly handles the customer’s browser session following a successful transaction.
- Ensure that email notifications are received by customers (if enabled).
From the back-office perspective:
- Ensure your system is checking all responses returned from Trust Payments and handling them correctly by following the guidance provided in this article.
- Ensure your own back-office systems are correctly logging orders and that you are securely storing the transaction reference returned in the response for future reference.
- Ensure transactions are being shown as successful in Portal.
- Ensure URL notifications are being received (if enabled).
- Ensure that you receive merchant email notifications (if enabled).
Before you begin testing…
Please be aware of the following notes:
- When you sign up, you will be provided with a “live” site reference and a “test” site reference (the latter is prefixed with “test_”). When testing, ensure requests submitted to Trust Payments include your “test” site reference.
- Most fields submitted to our test system will be accepted. Any data breaching its defined specification will return an error message.
- Any test data that generates a successful response when submitted while a merchant is in test mode, will produce a declined response when a merchant is switched into live mode. In some cases, the test data may return an error response.
- Our test system attempts to simulate responses in a similar fashion to the live system. However, depending on your acquirer you may find some responses differ slightly from those given by the test system.
- In the interest of security, we recommend against using real payment details when using your test account.
- We recommend specifying the main amount “10.50” when testing. Other amounts can be used but may return unexpected responses.
Ready to start testing?
Click here to open a list of test payment credentials in a new tab.
Our “fake” bank will simulate different responses depending on the values you submit.
And for when you have finished testing…
Refer to the articles linked below to learn about going live with your developed solution:
