Paypal Sandbox testing with free plan (10 activations)

I set up my Paypal Sandbox and purchasing appears to go smoothly, however my payment_debug.log says:[08/03/2012 1:13 PM] - FAILURE :Invalid payment_status: Pending

And no product key is emailed to me.

I'm guessing that this is because I have the free plan and I've used all my activations. Is that correct? I've been waiting to purchase a plan until my product goes live, because I don't want to be generating a lot of keys that I won't actually use.

Can someone verify that this is what's going on?

Thanks.

Actually I'm not sure if it's even getting to that step.

When I log into my Paypal Sandbox account, it says the payment is "Unclaimed". Is that right?

You've got to correct the settings in your PayPal sandbox to automatically accept new payments. See: paypall IPN always return payment_status: Pending on sandbox?

Actually, I realized I was using the wrong type of Sandbox - buyer instead of seller. When I create a Sandbox as a buyer, it works.

So finally I did get it to the point where I got this message in the log:Failed to generate product keys: (111) You have no more activations left in your Free plan

Which makes sense.

So I have two questions:1) If I sign up for the Solo plan, and I test activation in the Paypal Sandbox 300 times, does that mean I have to sign up for the next plan already (Basic)? Or can I delete keys so that my activation count doesn't grow while testing?

2) When I reach the limit of a certain plan (300, 1200, etc), is my account auto-upgraded? I'd hate for a customer to not be able to purchase a key if my limit is reached while I'm not looking.

Sorry, in the first line there I meant, when I create a Sandbox as a *seller*, it works.

1) If I sign up for the Solo plan, and I test activation in the Paypal Sandbox 300 times, does that mean I have to sign up for the next plan already (Basic)? Or can I delete keys so that my activation count doesn't grow while testing?

You can delete product keys in the paid accounts. (You can't in the free account, as you've already seen). So just delete any test keys you make.

2) When I reach the limit of a certain plan (300, 1200, etc), is my account auto-upgraded? I'd hate for a customer to not be able to purchase a key if my limit is reached while I'm not looking.

The Auto-upgrade is being implemented soon. Right now we just send you an email before you hit the limit.

Ok so just to be sure I understand, the total activation count is reduced when a key is deleted?

Yes.

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