Testing

PHPSDK

• Current Braintree SDKs
• Java
• .NET
• Node.js
• PHP
• Python
• Ruby

Use the test values below to test functionality in the Braintree sandbox.

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The sandbox is an entirely separate environment from your production account. Nothing created in the sandbox (e.g. processing options, recurring billing settings) will transfer to production. Your login information, merchant ID, and API keys will also be different. See Try It Out for more details.

Transaction amounts

When working with transactions, you can pass specific amounts to simulate different processor responses. Each test amount below will trigger the associated authorization response, regardless of the processing currency.

Credit card numbers

The sandbox environment only accepts specific test credit card numbers. Use the credit card values below to trigger different responses from the gateway.

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When testing card verifications and transactions, keep in mind:

• Transaction success is determined by the test amount you use. For example, when testing decline scenarios.
• Verification success is determined by the test card number you use. For example, when testing Vault and recurring billing scenarios.

Learn more about the difference between transactions and verifications.

Valid card numbers

These credit card numbers will not trigger specific credit card errors.

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Using these numbers does not necessarily mean that a transaction will be successful in the sandbox. Other values that impact transaction success include:

• Transaction amount
• AVS and CVV information (if using AVS and CVV rules)

*Diners Club cards are processed as Discover cards.

Card numbers for unsuccessful verification

The following credit card numbers will simulate an unsuccessful card verification response .

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Verifying a card is different than creating a transaction. To trigger an unsuccessful transaction, adjust the amount of the transaction .

*Diners Club cards are processed as Discover cards.

Card numbers with type indicators

The following card numbers can be used to simulate various types of cards, such as prepaid , commercial , or healthcare . Using any of the card numbers below will force the corresponding card type indicator to return "Yes" and the others to return "No" or "Unknown":

Card numbers with other information

Payment method nonces

In order to simplify testing your server side code, we provide static paymentMethodNonce values for you to use in sandbox. Credit card nonces come with a billing postal code already filled in for AVS testing purposes. If you do not want to include a billing address in your testing or if you'd like to use a specific billing address ID instead, use fake-valid-no-billing-address-nonce.

Collect device data from the client and include the deviceDataFromTheClient in the transaction.

$result = $gateway->transaction()->sale([
  'amount' => '10.00',
  'paymentMethodNonce' => 'fake-valid-nonce',
  'deviceData' => $deviceDataFromTheClient,
  'options' => [
    'submitForSettlement' => True
  ]
]);

Nonces representing cards

You can use any of the nonces in this table to simulate a card transaction or trigger a successful card verification response.

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When testing card verifications and transactions, keep in mind:

• Transaction success is determined by the test amount you use
• Verification success is determined by the test nonce you use

Nonces representing alternative payment methods

Nonces for testing card verification

Processor rejected nonces

The following payment method nonces represent credit cards that simulate an unsuccessful card verification response with a status of processorDeclined.

Gateway rejected nonces

The following payment method nonces represent credit cards that simulate an unsuccessful card verification response with a status of gatewayRejected.

CVV-only nonces

The following payment method nonces represent credit card CVV or CID values collected on the client side to verify cards already stored in your Vault. The test nonce you use determines which cvvResponseCode you receive in the sandbox.

For details on generating CVV-only nonces in your client-side integration, see the client SDK references:

• Android client reference
• iOS client reference
• JavaScript v3 client reference
• JavaScript v2 client reference

3D Secure nonces and authentication IDs

You can use these nonces or authentication IDs to test your integration under various 3D Secure scenarios for Visa cards. Authentication IDs are an alternate way of specifying a 3D Secure authentication to use for a transaction if no authentication is attached to the payment method. See the 3D Secure guide for more information on different status codes .

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The following nonces are only for testing Visa cards. Liability shift status is generally agnostic to the card type and other card brands will work similarly.

Nonce objects

When writing integrations tests against the Braintree sandbox environment, you may also use these nonce objects in place of the nonce that would normally be returned from the client side integration.

BraintreeTestNonces::$transactable
BraintreeTestNonces::$consumed
BraintreeTestNonces::$paypalOneTimePayment
BraintreeTestNonces::$paypalFuturePayment

Settlement status

Settlement routes have been exposed to aid with the testing of transactions and the transition between the different statuses. These settlement routes will allow a transaction that has been submitted_for_settlement to transition to settled, or settlement_declined. See the transaction statuses page for additional information on each response.

Example code to change the status of a transaction to settled:

$sale_result = $gateway->transaction()->sale([
  'amount' => '100.00',
  'paymentMethodNonce' => nonceFromTheClient,
  'options' => [
    'submitForSettlement' => True
  ]
]);

$transaction = $gateway->testing()->settle($sale_result->transaction->id);
get_class($transaction)
# BraintreeTransaction

$transaction->status
# BraintreeTransaction::SETTLED

Example code to change the status of a transaction to settlement_declined:

$sale_result = $gateway->transaction()->sale([
  'amount' => '100.00',
  'paymentMethodNonce' => nonceFromTheClient,
  'options' => [
    'submitForSettlement' => True
  ]
]);

$transaction = $gateway->testing()->settlementDecline($sale_result->transaction->id);
get_class($transaction)
# BraintreeTransaction

$transaction->status
# BraintreeTransaction::SETTLEMENT_DECLINED

Disputes

availability

While anyone can simulate disputes in the sandbox Control Panel, whether you can respond to and manage them in production depends on your account setup. Not all accounts will have disputes available in production.

Creating a disputed test transaction

You can use the following test card number in the sandbox to create sale transactions of any amount* that are instantly disputed:

*Some transaction amounts trigger specific dispute behavior in the sandbox; see creating test disputes that require compelling evidence below.

In addition to creating a test dispute, using this test card to create sandbox transactions will allow you to:

• Receive a dispute email notification
• Receive a Dispute Opened webhook (if set up)
• Search for or find the dispute in the Control Panel or via the API
• Respond to the dispute in the Control Panel or via the API with specific evidence that will update the dispute status to won or lost

Creating test disputes that require compelling evidence

The following transaction amounts will set the dispute reasonCode accordingly:

Creating test disputes for Venmo transactions

When creating a Venmo test transaction with the fake-venmo-account-nonce payment method nonce, the following transaction amounts will create and set the dispute status accordingly:

Managing test disputes via the API

To simulate winning or losing a dispute with any reason code via the API:

1. Find the dispute
2. Add text evidence using one of the following strings:
   • compelling_evidence to simulate a won dispute
   • losing_evidence to simulate a lost dispute
3. Finalize the dispute

Managing test disputes via the Control Panel

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The following steps only apply to disputes in the sandbox that do not have certain fraud-related dispute reason codes. Because fraud-related disputes require specific compelling evidence, they behave differently.

To simulate winning or losing most disputes in the Control Panel:

1. Log into the sandbox Control Panel
2. Click on Disputes in the navigation bar
3. On the row for the dispute you're testing, click the expand button on the far right side of the row, and choose Submit Evidence from the menu of options
4. Under the Provide Evidence field, enter the following text:
   • compelling_evidence to simulate a won dispute
   • losing_evidence to simulate a lost dispute
5. Click the Submit Dispute To Processor button

Fraud-related disputes

To simulate winning or losing fraud-related disputes in the Control Panel:

1. Log into the sandbox Control Panel
2. Click on Disputes in the navigation bar
3. On the row for the dispute you're testing, click the expand button on the far right side of the row, and choose Submit Evidence from the menu of options
4. Under the Include Evidence section, select Proof of recurring transaction history as your compelling evidence
5. Select any date and time
6. In the Recurring transaction ID field, enter the following text:
   • compelling_evidence to simulate a won dispute
   • losing_evidence to simulate a lost dispute
7. Click the Submit Dispute to Processor button

Venmo disputes

To simulate winning or losing Venmo disputes in the Control Panel:

1. Log into the sandbox Control Panel
2. Click on Disputes in the navigation bar
3. On the row for the dispute you're testing, click the expand button on the far right side of the row, and choose Submit Evidence from the menu of options
4. Under the Evidence Type section, select Other as your evidence type
5. In the Provide Evidence text field, enter the following text:
   • compelling_evidence to simulate a won dispute
   • losing_evidence to simulate a lost dispute
6. Click the Submit Dispute button

3D Secure

Test credit card numbers for 3D Secure transactions are provided by our 3D Secure authentication provider, CardinalCommerce. See the PDF provided in the 3D Secure guide for a complete list.

Fraud tools

You can use the following test card number in the sandbox to simulate Premium Fraud Management Tools flagging a transaction as pending review. This feature is only available for Fraud Protection Advanced.

You can use the following test card numbers in the sandbox to simulate Premium Fraud Management Tools or risk threshold rules rejecting a request.

important

In order to access the Risk Threshold gateway rejection reason, you must use at least the version indicated below.

• Java 3.1.0
• .NET 5.0.0
• Node 2.24.0
• PHP 5.3.0
• Python 4.3.0
• Ruby 2.103.0

Otherwise, you will receive an Unrecognized status for the gateway rejection.

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The Dashboard/User Interface of Fraud Protection and Fraud Protection Advanced is only for illustrative purposes in sandbox. You will not be able to tweak any settings to reject transactions. For testing transaction rejections, please use the test value for the card number as defined above.

The following payment method nonces represent payment methods that will be gateway rejected by Braintree's various fraud tools.

fake-gateway-rejected-fraud-nonce represents a card that will be gateway rejected by Braintree's fraud tools. This is now deprecated.

AVS and CVV/CID responses

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These will only trigger a fraud response if you have AVS and CVV rules enabled in your sandbox. Learn how to enable AVS and CVV rules and see which rules we recommend.

CVV/CID responses

AVS error responses

AVS postal code responses

AVS street address responses

Bank routing numbers

Bank routing numbers must pass a checksum, much like credit card numbers. The following routing numbers are valid, and can be passed to the sandbox:

• 071101307
• 071000013

IBAN numbers

To generate bank account numbers (IBANs) for sandbox testing, please refer to IBAN generator page.

PayPal One Touch

To make it easier to test out the app switch-based flows for PayPal One Touch on iOS, we created a fake iOS wallet that you can run on the iOS simulator. Clone or download it from GitHub and make sure it's installed on the same simulator you're using for development. To test the One Touch flows on Android, we recommend installing the latest PayPal app on your test device or simulator.

Purge sandbox data

You can purge all of the following data from your sandbox:

• Transactions
• Customers
• Payment methods
• Addresses
• Disputes
• Subscriptions
• Sub-merchant accounts (if you are using Braintree Marketplace)

To purge your sandbox data:

1. Log into your sandbox Control Panel
2. Click on the gear icon in the top right corner
3. Click any option from the drop-down menu to access the settings pages
4. Click Purge Test Data in the navigation bar
5. Click the Yes button to confirm your choice

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This action will log you out, lock your account, and block API operations until the purge is complete.

Purging this data will not affect regular merchant accounts, recurring billing plans, webhooks, or other account settings. While you can delete individual plans and webhooks, you can't delete merchant accounts.