Do I need to pay the $30 just to play around in the sandbox for Website Payments Pro? I'm trying to get Active Merchant working in Rails, and it's giving me an error "invalid merchant configuration"... after digging around a bit it says I need to "accept the billing agreement" and/or sign up for the Payments Pro first. So, do I need to pay the $30 just to test in sandbox? Or is there another workaround for this error?
A:
If anyone's searching... you can create a Payments Pro account. Here's the walkthrough
https://www.x.com/docs/DOC-1603
Basically, login to the developer, then login to one of your test accounts. You'll have to generate a credit card number and put in some other fake info (it's sandbox, it's not for real) per the walkthrough, but it will solve the "invalid merchant configuration" if you're coming across that problem.
Kevin
2010-04-02 03:56:42