Test and production

Two separate URLs exist for the Test and Production Environments, which are needed for your order details submissions.

To locate these URLs, refer to the XML Direct Integration Guide.

You should note that:

• Orders must be submitted to either the Test or Production URL.

• If you have created a number of different payment page designs you will need to specify the unique installation id of the configured payment page you wish to display. If you have only one then this will be the same for all submissions.

• creating a default payment page design and then specifying its installation ID in the Default Customisation field in the merchant properties section of the merchant interface, and / or

• specifying the installation ID of your preferred payment page design in the XML order details submission, if you wish to use a payment page design different to the default.

If you have more than one installation, note that each of your installations has its own Integration Setup and payment page for each of the Test and Production environments.

Test

The Test environment enables you to configure and test your payment page service, and submit transactions without transferring funds.

Ensure that you submit test transactions in the test environment. You can review the test transaction details by logging on to Merchant interface and switching to test environment.

Only when you are completely confident with the Payment Service pages do you need to copy your customisations and settings from the Test to the Production environment.

Production

The live Payment page uses settings and files that are stored within the Production environment. Although you can directly modify the installation settings for the Production environment, you should note that you cannot directly customise the Payment Service pages for the Production environment.

To use customised Payment Service pages in the Production environment you must first customise the pages within the Test environment, then copy these to the Production.

Once you have copied your Test settings and customisations to the Production environment you will also need to update the URL references in your test HTML pages to the live Production URL.