Sandbox Simulation
Safely simulate Passport’s payment lifecycles and edge cases in a sandbox environment—test authorizations, captures, refunds, and failures without touching live funds.
Overview
The Passport Product Simulator lets you recreate Passport processing and payment scenarios end-to-end in a controlled sandbox.
In this guide you’ll learn
- How to simulate real-world transaction flows and failure cases
- Fine-tune your integration by testing diverse boarding and processing scenarios
- Empower teams (AM, Sales, PayOps, and external developers) to validate workflows without live data
Prerequisites & Limitations
- Sandbox API credentials and environment access
- No live transactions; simulation data only
- Simulator supports core Passport features (no custom plugins or experimental APIs)
Compliance / Regulation Mandates
- PCI-DSS Structure Compliance: Simulated flows follow the same data formats and workflows as live PCI-DSS transactions, but do not handle real card data.
- Data Segregation: Test data must remain within the sandbox; do not import production PII or sensitive financial information.
- Audit Logging: All simulator actions are logged for internal review, but are not part of external regulatory filings.
Feature Table
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Transaction Lifecycle Control | Simulate authorizations, captures, voids, and refunds in any order |
| Failure Scenario Testing | Trigger declines, timeouts, and network errors |
| Data Seeding | Preload customers, accounts, and transaction histories |
| Role-Based Access | Grant AM, Sales, and PayOps teams sandboxes with scoped permissions |
Key Details
Welcome to the Passport Product Simulator Guide, your comprehensive resource for fine-tuning the integration of Passport, Priority’s unified commerce engine. At Priority, we understand the critical need for seamless integration of payments, treasury, and banking solutions. With Passport, merchants and businesses can effortlessly collect, store, and send money while ensuring full regulatory compliance.
In our ever-evolving financial landscape, it’s imperative to provide tools that support both scalability and adaptability. The Passport Product Simulator is designed to help you harness its full potential by recreating Passport’s processing and payment data scenarios with ease.
Why Use the Simulator?
To build a truly robust integration, you must simulate every possible scenario encountered during Passport boarding and processing. Whether you’re on Account Management, Sales, PayOps, or an external development team, this guide equips you to explore and validate Passport workflows end-to-end.
What the Simulator Offers
- End-to-End Lifecycle Emulation: Recreate the entire transaction journey—from creation through settlement or refund—in a sandbox.
- Customizable Data Scenarios: Configure customer profiles, payment methods, balances, and transaction histories to match your use cases.
- Failure & Edge-Case Testing: Simulate processor declines, network timeouts, data validation errors, and more to verify your error-handling logic.
Dive into the sections that follow to learn how to set up your sandbox, seed test data, run scenario scripts, and interpret simulator outputs—ensuring your Passport integration is resilient, compliant, and production-ready.
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