Test your integration

We will explain how to use our test cards and users to check that your payments are correctly created and your messages are effective.

The test users allow you to test your checkout by generating payment flows in an exact copy of your integration.

To perform the tests, you must have at least two users: a seller and a buyer.

Execute the following curl to generate a test user:

curl -X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer PROD_ACCESS_TOKEN' \
"https://api.mercadopago.com/users/test_user" \
-d '{"site_id":"MPE"}'

The answer will have a structure similar to the following example:

{
    "id": 123456,
    "nickname": "TT123456",
    "password": "qatest123456",
    "site_status": "active",
    "email": "test_user_123456@testuser.com"
}

Configure your seller test user's productive public key at your application frontend, and the buyer test user's productive private key at the backend.

Start the integration with your test seller user credentials:

1. Fill out test card data.
2. Enter your test buyer user e-mail.
3. Confirm purchase. Done!

To test different payment results, fill in the desired status in the name of the cardholder:

To start charging, you need to meet the requirements to go to production, and must activate your credentials.

Before activating them, verify that the credentials in your integration are those of the account that receives the money from the sales.