How to test payments from your site or payment link

In this help article, we’ll cover how to make a test payment on your site or using a payment link.

Before sharing your checkout with your customers, it is important to ensure that live payments work.

To test a live payment after sharing your one-page checkout, we recommend applying a discount code to pay yourself a low amount (e.g. $1).

Alternatively, you could directly change the price of your checkout to a low amount, like $1.

Apply a discount code to your checkout to pay a low amount

We recommend this approach to test payments when you wish to test your checkout with coupon codes.

  1. Create a coupon code. Learn how to create a coupon code here
  2. Set your Amount off to your checkout price minus $1 or Percentage off to 99%
    • From your Checkout Page dashboard, click on any checkout or create a new one
    • Go to the Fields tab and turn on Allow discount codes on checkout
  3. This will show a discount code box on your checkout
  4. Click Add to site and open your checkout as a Payment link
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  1. Complete your checkout fields and enter your discount code
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  1. Enter your payment details into the card field and click Pay

That’s it, you’ve just made a test payment applying a discount code.

Change the price to a low amount ($1)

This is a great way to test that integrations between Checkout Page, Stripe & other third-party services are working together as expected.

  1. From your Checkout Page dashboard, click on any checkout or create a new one
  2. Set your checkout Price to a low amount (like $1) and scroll down to Save
  3. Add your checkout to your site
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  1. From your site, complete your checkout fields and click the Pay button
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Remember to change the price back after you’ve finished testing.

Testing integrations

If you’re testing integrations with Checkout Page, Stripe, & another third-party service, we recommend paying yourself a low amount ($1) after adding your checkout to your site or using the payment link.

This is the most reliable way to test integrations.

What happens after a test payment is made?

  • You’ll be shown the checkout confirmation screen
  • A new customer will be created under Customers
  • A payment will appear under Payments
  • You will receive a payment confirmation email
  • If enabled, a confirmation email will be sent to the email address used during checkout
  • If enabled, additional payment notifications will be sent to recipients added under Payment notifications
  • If enabled, our Zapier integration will trigger actions in third-party apps