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Beta
Sandboxes is currently in private beta. Join Stripe Insiders, our new early access program, to register your interest in joining the Sandboxes private beta.
A sandbox is an isolated environment that replaces test mode. You can use your sandbox to test all available Stripe functionality in your business account, and experiment with new features without affecting your live integration. When testing in a sandbox, the payments you create aren’t processed by card networks or payment providers, and funds aren’t moved.
Key features
Sandboxes provide the following key features:
Simulate Stripe events to test without real money movement: Use your sandbox to test payments functionality without real money movement. Create payments in your business account to accumulate a fake balance or use test helpers to simulate external events.
Scale isolated sandboxes for teams: Your team can work in separate sandboxes to make sure that data and actions are completely isolated from other sandboxes. Changes made in one sandbox don’t interfere with changes in another. Your business account can have up to six sandboxes at a time.
Test in the Dashboard or the CLI: Access your sandbox from the Dashboard or the Stripe CLI. Test Stripe functionality directly in the Dashboard or use familiar CLI commands and fixtures.
Test mode data
Your test mode data is still available in your Legacy Test mode sandbox. We recommend using sandboxes that contain more features rather than using Legacy Test mode. The following features are only available in sandboxes:
- Create and delete a sandbox.
- Assign access to select users. All users who have access to your live business account have access to the Legacy Test mode sandbox.
- Verify that settings changes don’t affect your live business. Changing some settings in Legacy Test mode might affect settings for your live business.
Manage sandboxes through the Dashboard
Click Sandboxes for an overview of your sandboxes. Select Manage Sandboxes to manage your sandboxes, view additional details, and take further actions (for example, managing who has access to your sandbox and managing the API keys associated with your sandbox).
Test in a sandbox
Learn more about how to test in a sandbox, including simulating payments and using test cards.
Default Sandbox
The Default Sandbox is automatically created for your business.
Share feedback
Email us at sandboxes-feedback@stripe.com with feedback about Sandboxes.