Sandbox testing

Test your configuration to ensure that everything is working before you go live. Contact us with a link to your test site so that we can verify your configuration and provide you with production keys.

Create an order

1. Create an order from your order management admin dashboard
2. During checkout, enter customer's valid U.S. addresses and mobile-phone information. Affirm cannot test if the address or phone information is fake.
3. Select Affirm as the payment option.
4. Create order in pending state and send checkout to Customer, Affirm will send a text and email to the billing phone number/email provided, which will link the consumer to their online application.

Test the Affirm checkout flow

Test the Affirm checkout flow your customer will go through:

1. Once you initiate checkout, you'll see the account creation screens.

• If you've already created an account, click the Log In button.
• If you haven't created an account, create one now.
  • Any First and last name
  • Valid email address format
  • Valid (random) US cell phone number
  • Birthdate longer than 18 years ago
  • Any four digits

2. You'll be asked to enter a PIN number, use '1234'. We do not text you a PIN number in the Sandbox environment.
3. You will always see 3, 6, and 12 month terms.
4. Once you click the 'Confirm' button, you'll be redirected to the merchant site confirmation page.

Authorize the charge

1. Charge authorization occurs after a user has successfully completed the Affirm checkout flow and returns back to the merchant site. Authorizing the charge generates the charge ID that will be used to reference this charge moving forward. A charge is not fully created before being authorized, and thus is not visible in the 'read charge' response, nor in the User/Merchant Dashboard.
2. You will see order as processed or complete in your order management dashboard
3. Verify that the transaction appears in your platform's admin panel and on  sandbox.affirm.com/dashboard. 

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Notes

• The Telesales API will send SMS text messages only in the Affirm Live environment. During Sandbox environment testing, please rely on email messages to receive the checkout URL

• The URL https://sandbox.affirm.com indicates that you are in the testing environment.

• When a customer completes checkout with Affirm as the payment method, Affirm authorizes a
  charge for the amount of the order. The charge appears in a pending state on the customer's Affirm account. Authorized transactions expire if they are not captured before the capture deadline. The default capture deadline is specified in your partnership agreement with Affirm. If you did not specify your authorization-period requirements because of inventory, pre-orders, or shipping time in your onboarding form, please Contact us for help with completing this process.