Today we’ve released new functionality to make testing online donations and registrations easier for event administrators.
Test Mode allows Organizers to test the full donor Campaign on their Campaigns. Currently, we have a “Preview” function while an Campaign is in Draft status, but Organizers can’t submit any test transactions on it unless they publish and use a real credit card.
Because of this limitation, Organizers also can’t see or test everything that comes after submitting a transaction, including receipts, reports, and test other management functions.
With Test Mode, Organizers can submit test transactions using automatically-filled test card numbers on any “Draft” status Campaign or Donation Page.
Additionally, all backend functions are open for testing including actions like exporting reports, importing Teams/Participants, adding physical raffle tickets, etc.
If the Organizer has linked a Stripe account before using Test Mode, they can see the test transactions in their Stripe account. Test Mode allows Organizers to fully test and evaluate the product to get a feel for what their donors will Campaign before they publish and go live.
Test Mode is not something customers need to “enable” or “turn on” – it’s just automatically built-in for any “Draft” status Campaign or Donation Page. Whenever an Organizer previews their Campaign while in Draft Status, Test Mode is automatically enabled and Organizers can submit test transactions, see their receipts, see their test data in reports, and perform management functions related to those transactions.
The Campaign Page, Checkout, and Management backend have on-screen banners to inform users that they’re in Test Mode.
When an Organizer publishes their Campaign live, all test mode transaction data is conveniently deleted so that everything is clean before it goes live to their donors.
Read more about this feature here: Can I make test donations and registrations before I publish my Campaign?