Comments on: Authorize.net Terminology Overload: Test vs. Live

By: Tim Webb

Tim Webb — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 04:06:45 +0000

If you ask me, there should be only two settings: Test, Live, Live (test server), and Live, Live, Live (live server). The rest of the settings are just for complete confusion (with the exception of the magic card number).

By: Jayesh

Jayesh — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:43:46 +0000

I am still bit confuse with behavior of test account on test server. When i submit real credit card information with CCV validation enabled in my account, all information is correct but still it returns status P (Not Processed) so my question is, does test account on test server (live mode) validates the credit card information like CCV against bank?

By: Arif

Arif — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:14:06 +0000

Hi,
Thanks for the nice article.
Well, I wanna ask can you please tell me how best I can test the AUTH only transaction and then CAPTURE prior AUTH transaction can be tested as well ?

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Stout Design » Blog Archive » Authorize.net test and live modes — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:39:03 +0000

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By: janie

janie — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:59:13 +0000

My site has not went live yet. I am trying to get it done now. I have been up all night and I am so confused i really need to speak to someone on the phone asap. Is authorize.net and the others a merchant account or not or just some type of go between. I do not understand all this at all I am not computer savy and I did not know this was so complicated. I am still trying to find something with say, the charges per transaction or will that be a surprise.

By: davep

davep — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:49:57 +0000

If you submit a payment against credit card 4111111111111111 to the live server and it is not in test mode, then you will get an error. One way you could determine if the account is in Test mode or not is to use credit card number 4222222222222222, and submit a transaction for $1.00 and $2.00. The $1.00 transaction should report success, while the $2.00 transaction should give you an error with a response reason code of 2 (“This transaction has been declined.”)

By: Harish

Harish — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:55:38 +0000

Hi,

I am not sure of my authorize.net account is in live mode or test mode in server.
Because, i dont have account details from client.

I am submitting test cc numbers to authorize.net and getting success message.
and same for the valid cc numbers.

Now my question is what may be the response from authorize.net ,if we submit the test cc numbers to live server?

any thing on this will be helpfull.

Thanks

By: davep

davep — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:34:41 +0000

yalestar and Patrick: Thanks. I have benefitted greatly from similar blog posts from others and I am glad to finally be giving back to the community.

rselvam: Your question is not entirely clear. If you want to clarify what you mean by “transactionid=?” and “account number is 4111111111111111 and a valid account number”, I can try to answer your question here. However, I think you will be better served by asking questions like this in the Authorize.net Developer Community forums at http://community.developer.authorize.net/.

By: rselvam

rselvam — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:54:37 +0000

what is the response from authorize.net in live mode for transcationid=? if account number is 4111111111111111 and a valid account number