Getting Started with the Authorise sim

Here's how to make your first request - authorising a payment - with Testing Pays sims.

1. Create your Testing Pays account
2. Open the authorise simulator
3. Making your first authorise request

1. Create Your Testing Pays Account

First, you’ll need an account on Testing Pays. It takes seconds.

2. Open the Authorise Simulator

Once you’ve signed in to the testing environment, and selected your favourite APIs you'd like to use, you’ll see your team Dashboard with bookmarks. Find the bookmark named “authorise (v1)”, and click the OPEN SIM button.

3. Making your first authorise request

Go to the “Integrate” tab on the authorise simulator. This contains instructions and tips to get going in various coding languages. Select the coding language of your choice and follow the instructions.

The first option you'll see on the "Integrate" tab is a cURL request - this is the quickest way to see a authorise request in action. Copy the cURL command and paste into your local command/terminal window, and hit return. The response from the simulator will be based on the trigger parameter (by default this is the amount > value parameter of the request).