Use a credit card test certificate

This guide provides information on using Shopify test certificates to test a credit card payments apps extension.

Requirements

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You've created a credit card payments app extension.
You're a Partner organization owner.

Using the test certificate

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To use Shopify's test certificate, set the value of the encryption_certificate_fingerprint field to Test Certificate in your credit card payment extension then, deploy and release the extension.

With the test certificate configured, Shopify will always send the same static test payload data in the payment_method hash for every payment session request.

Test private key

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The private key which is used to decrypt the encrypted payload.

Test certificate

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The test certificate which is used to encrypt the test payload.

Test payload

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This sections details the payloads you'll receive, which depends on the API version of your payments app extension.