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Take a test payment without writing code

Short answer

Make a payment link in Test mode, open it, and pay it with our test card. No real money moves, and you see exactly what your customer will see.
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OwnerAdministratorDevelopercan make a payment link in Payment linksVerified 1 November 2026
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Pay your own link

  1. Check the switch says Test.
  2. Under Products, press New product, and give it a name and a price.
  3. Under Payment links, press New payment link, choose that price and press Create payment link.
  4. Open The URL to share in a new tab, and press Pay by card.
  5. On the bank’s test page, pay with a card from the test cards page that says it succeeds.

See it arrive

Open Payments, and your test payment is at the top. Open it to see what your dashboard records. From there, you can try a refund too.

A receipt goes out only if the address belongs to someone on your team, because Test mode emails nobody else.

See a card refused

The test cards page also lists a card the bank’s test system should decline, so that you can see what your customer would. That system is the bank’s, so it may not always answer the same way.