Test with test accounts

Before the store opens, every service is tried in its test mode. Nothing below charges real money or writes to real customers. This page is the step by step; the short checklist to tick is in Launching a store.

How long it takes

Payments and email take an afternoon. WhatsApp depends on Meta approving the templates (up to 24 hours). Meta tracking is confirmed the next day, when Meta has shown the events.

Card payments (dLocal Go)

1. Create a test account at dLocal Go and copy the sandbox API key and sandbox secret key (Integrations > API). Test and live keys are different.
2. Place an order in your store and choose card. On the dLocal Go page use a test card, with any future expiry date and any security code:

Card	Result you will see
4111 1111 1111 1111	Approved
4242 4242 4242 4242	Approved
5555 5555 5555 4444	Rejected by the bank
4000 0566 5566 5556	Insufficient funds
5186 0017 0000 9726	Card expired
5105 1051 0510 5100	Invalid security code

3. With an approved card, open the order in the admin: it must be Paid, with its invoice, and the customer must receive the email.
4. With a rejected card, the order must stay Pending payment and the customer can try again.

PayPal

1. In the PayPal developer dashboard open Sandbox > Accounts. A sample business account and a personal (buyer) account already exist; you can create more.
2. Put the test app’s client ID and secret in the store.
3. Place an order with PayPal. When PayPal opens, sign in with the personal test account and approve. When you come back, the order must be Paid.
4. Refunds are made in PayPal (the transaction’s page), then the order is marked Refunded in the admin.

Email

1. Add your sending domain in Cloudflare (Email Service). The DNS records take 5 to 15 minutes.
2. Until the domain is ready, mail goes only to verified addresses of your account.
3. Place a test order and check the inbox and the spam folder. In the admin, Emails has a preview of each message in both languages and a button to send yourself a test.

WhatsApp (if you use it)

1. In the Meta app, WhatsApp > API Setup gives you a free test number. Add your own phone as a recipient and send the sample hello_world message to confirm everything connects.
2. In the admin, WhatsApp: review each template’s text, Submit to Meta, then Sync status. Meta answers within up to 24 hours. If it rejects one, the reason shows there.
3. With the template approved, press Send test to me. Then mark an order as shipped and check the message carries the tracking code and the order link.
4. In Messages and notifications you should see the status go from sent to delivered and read.

Only customers who gave permission at checkout are messaged. Meta charges for each template message delivered; read its current price list before doing the sums.

Meta Pixel and catalog (if you use them)

1. In Meta Events Manager open Test events and copy the test code. Paste it in Settings > Marketing, next to the Pixel ID.
2. Open your store in a private window: until you accept cookies, nothing must be sent to Meta. Accept and walk through the store: view a product, add it to the cart, start checkout, pay.
3. Each step must appear in Test events twice, once from the browser and once from the server, and Meta must count them as one event.
4. Remove the test code before launch. With the code set, events still count for your ads.
5. Catalog: in Commerce Manager create a data source with your catalog address (/feeds/products.xml). Its diagnostics section shows which products have errors.

If something does not work

What you see	What it usually is
Paid, but the order does not change	The provider could not notify the store: the store address is not public or is mistyped
The email does not arrive	The domain is not verified yet, or it is in spam
WhatsApp says “skipped”	The template is not approved in that language, or it is switched off
Meta shows no events	The visitor did not accept cookies, or the Pixel ID is wrong

Technical details and error codes are in docs/TESTING_INTEGRATIONS.md in the repository.