Best Way to Test Zen Cart?

[ETbyrne]

What's the best way to test orders on a site without going through PayPal? For instance I want to make some fake orders on my site and see what they look like in the admin panel but I don't want to have to actually buy anything.

Thank you,
- Evan Byrne

[swguy]

Use the "Check" Payment method. (Install it from admin->modules->payment).

[Ajeh]

NOTE: if you plan to use PayPal later on a Live site, be sure to do sufficient testing before going live with PayPal as a Payment module ...

[ETbyrne]

Thanks it worked! Another question. Can you make it so that a persons discount group shows up in the order invoice?

[swguy]

Not without modifying code.

[ETbyrne]

Hmmmm, well that leaves me with a problem because every customer belongs to a group and depending on the group that person belongs to that is where the person will pick up his or her food (it's a farmers market site)

So when we are going through orders it would be best if we didn't have to look up the customer's info to see where to deliver the food to.

Any ideas on how to do this?

[ETbyrne]

Nevermind, I was able to mod admin/invoice.php to my needs. *Does a victory dance* :-)

[bigbadboy]

Assuming using the Paypal sandbox is out of the question -
If you have 2 paypal accounts, different email addresses, you can make a purchase on the other address and then immediately make a refund.

[wagnerguy]

ok, I am feeling kinda of slow now. how do i test my site.

I have loaded the free pay. but what do i do when i go to checkout