Creating an Adyen sandbox account

This guide walks through creating an Adyen test (sandbox) account so you can set up and verify your connection before going live.

Time to complete: 5 minutes

1. Go to www.adyen.com/signup, fill in your details, and submit.

   

2. You will be sent an activation email.

   

3. Click the link in the email and create a password.

4. Select Continue to log in and log in. You will be prompted to configure multi-factor authentication (MFA).

   

   

5. When prompted Which type of payments do you accept?, select an option that includes Ecommerce.

   

6. Your merchant account will generally be your account name suffixed with ECOM.

   Note

   If you want to process MOTO in addition to eCommerce, you must set up a separate merchant account for it — ideally your account name suffixed with MOTO. You then need to contact Adyen support to enable this facility on the account. See Adyen’s MOTO documentation and use their support form.

   

7. Select Developers > API Credentials, and select the ws user.

   

8. Generate an API key. The credentials to enter are your Merchant ID and this API key.

   Note

   You will need to ask Adyen support to enable the PCI role on your ws user, and tick the Management API - Account read and Management API - Webhooks read and write roles yourself so the integration can register the webhook that completes captures and refunds. The full list is under API credential roles. See also Adyen’s API credential roles documentation.

   

9. Enter your Merchant ID and API key into the setup screen. Once saved and tested, you will see a Connected to Adyen confirmation, where you can also enable synchronous tokenisation and MOTO.