Checkout URL in test mode refers to credit card

[yannicschroeer]

Hello,

we encounter issues with the test mode using this python API client. Some time ago we used the same code and it worked perfectly, but since a few weeks the test mode screen as described here: https://docs.mollie.com/overview/testing is no longer available when using the checkout url of initiated payments.

Problem description

This is the code we are using to obtain the first payment of a future series of background payments:

payments.create({
  'amount': {
    'currency': 'EUR',
    'value': '0.00' 
  },
    'customerId': 'cst_123456',
    'sequenceType': 'first', 
    'locale': 'de_DE',  
    'description': 'Some title',  
    'webhookUrl': 'https://example.com/webhook',  
    'redirectUrl': 'https://example.com/redirect'
  }
)

We use a test API key to perform this client library request.

Expected behaviour

We get a checkout URL like https://www.mollie.com/checkout/UomV7nXHTb in _links.checkout in the response object, to simulate a checkout with whatever parameters we choose (Set it to open, paid etc.)

Actual behaviour

We get a URL of the form https://www.mollie.com/checkout/credit-card/embedded/UomV7nXHTb in the _links.checkout which refers to a page that uses credit card as the preconfigured payment method. If we use the navigation to navigate to the payment methods we get redirected to the provided redirect_url.

I also downgraded the api client to an older version to avoid api client related defaults as the cause but it seems not to resolve the issue.

Question

How do we get the generic checkout_url again that provides the test mode checkout screen documented here: https://docs.mollie.com/overview/testing

Thank you in advance

[JorikMollie]

Hi Yannic,

This change is behaviour of the test environment is an unintended consequence of a change to the Mollie platform that we rolled out.

You can fill in any card details that pass the Luhn algorithm and an expiry date in the future. In practice: it is faster to Google "test credit card numbers".

I've created a ticket for our development team to restore the original behaviour.

[yannicschroeer]

Thank you for your response! Could you please let me know here when the ticket has been processed?

[JorikMollie]

Will do!

[whyscream]

@JorikMollie any news on this?

[JorikMollie]

So far no updates, it has not been included in a sprint so far.

[whyscream]

Seems to be resolved, according to https://github.com/mollie/mollie-api-php/issues/648