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Boarding a Merchant Account for Sandbox Testing

This topic describes how to begin to board a merchant account (MID) that the merchant user plans to use for testing eCheck transactions in the sandbox environment.
In order to perform this task, your partner portfolio must have eCheck enabled. If you do not know whether eCheck is enabled, contact your
Visa Acceptance Solutions
 sales team.
For the final step of the task, you notify the MID user that they can complete the final steps to board their MID for use in the
Business Center
 sandbox.
  1. Follow these steps to begin boarding a merchant account for sandbox testing:
  2. Log in to the Business Center sandbox as the portfolio user with administrative permissions:

    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

  3. Using the Add Products section of the Merchant Management screen, enable eCheck for the merchant account (MID) as
    Allow Self-enablement
    .
  4. Notify the MID user that they can complete the steps to board their MID for sandbox testing:

    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

    1. The MID user logs in to their MID user account on the sandbox Business Center.
    2. In the Available Products module, the MID user fills out the eCheck Application with test data for use in the sandbox testing environment.
    3. The MID user submits the application.
      When the application is submitted, the MID is automatically enabled for eCheck. The application does not go through underwriting because this merchant account is only used for test transactions.

    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

    Merchants can find more information in the
    eCheck Merchant User Guide
    , under "Boarding Your Merchant Account for Sandbox Testing."