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.
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A:
Most payment gateways provide such numbers for testing their services, but they will generally only work on the staging/test versions of those gateways.
Paul Dixon
2008-09-15 20:58:01
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Most payment processors provide either a testing number (PayPal does this) or the ability to go into testing mode (in which no transactions actually get processed). Consult the documentation.
ceejayoz
2008-09-15 20:59:08
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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.
FlySwat
2008-09-15 21:00:12
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MasterCard: 5431111111111111 Amex: 341111111111111 Discover: 6011601160116611 American Express (15 digits) 378282246310005 American Express (15 digits) 371449635398431 American Express Corporate (15 digits) 378734493671000 Diners Club (14 digits) 30569309025904 Diners Club (14 digits) 38520000023237 Discover (16 digits) 6011111111111117 Discover (16 digits) 6011000990139424 JCB (16 digits) 3530111333300000 JCB (16 digits) 3566002020360505 MasterCard (16 digits) 5555555555554444 MasterCard (16 digits) 5105105105105100 Visa (16 digits) 4111111111111111 Visa (16 digits) 4012888888881881 Visa (13 digits) 4222222222222 Credit Card Prefix Numbers: Visa: 13 or 16 numbers starting with 4 MasterCard: 16 numbers starting with 5 Discover: 16 numbers starting with 6011 AMEX: 15 numbers starting with 34 or 37
Mike
2008-09-15 21:08:49