What is Test and Go Live?

This guide describes how you can test your installation and how to go live with it.

Worldpay provides a special Test Environment to enable you to test your installation and integration to your website before going live. It is a self-contained working environment that provides most of the features that are available in a Production Environment, except that no funds are transferred.

Accordingly, you will be able to access details of test transactions and payments with the Merchant Interface. This will enable you to get a genuine sense of the whole payment processing procedure via Worldpay without any money ever changing hands.

You can access the test environment in the Merchant Interface by selecting Switch To Test at the bottom of the Merchant Interface left-hand menu and then selecting Test Merchant Interface.

When you initially integrate your system with ours, the live Production Environment is not enabled for transactions so there is no risk of accidentally triggering a live transaction until you and Worldpay have agreed that you are ready to go live. If you try to submit a live payment before you go live, you will receive an error message.

Website rules

Before we activate an installation and make it live we must ensure that websites are compliant with website rules - this forms part of our test and go live procedure.

For information about the website rules, see the following links:

for the UK and other non-USA countries:

http://www.worldpay.com/support/bg/rules/

for the USA:

http://www.worldpay.com/support/bg/usrules/