Testing Payments

Testing payments in Pley Payments is easy and cost-free using sandbox mode and test cards in the Game Manager. This allows you to test purchases without real payment methods or filling out banking/tax forms until you're ready to publish.

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Game Manager Only

Payments can only be tested in the Game Manager by playing builds directly, or by using the run local feature in the Unity SDK.

For builds published on a release track, or released on a distribution channel (such as Discord), only real payments can be done.

Testing Payments

1) Launch a build (not release track) in the Pley Game Manager under builds.

2) Trigger a payment in-game.

3) Enter a sandbox test card (listed below). Look for Sandbox payment in the checkout modal. Alternatively, use a testing payment card with Google Pay.

4) Complete the payment.

Sandbox Testing Cards

Name & country can be anything; they don’t impact the test.

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Testing on Production/Release

Testing payments on release tracks (e.g., Production) requires real payment methods, not test cards.

Powered by Adyen. See more test cards in the Adyen testing documentation.

Response

Sandbox purchases mark entitlements with "in_sandbox": true in the JSON response for easy backend tracking. This can be used if you want different behavior for sandbox purchases.

  {
    "entitlement_id": "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx",
    "product_id": "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx",
    "in_sandbox": true
  },
    ...

 

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Keeping track of payments

Sandboxed transactions from in the Game Manager isn't tracked and they will not be part of the Sales reports.
Making test-payments will not affect any data or reporting.