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How do I get CIVICRM to flip over to Live mode for Membership and contribution pages (ie online membership registration)?

Is there some special flag I have to flip to make the page live?

According to CCRM, "if you page is enabled, click Live Page to view the page in live mode." 
The status shows as Active.
It says : Go to this LIVE online Contribution page:
Review your customized LIVE online contribution page here. When your page is active, create front-end links to the contribution page using the Menu Manager. Select Online Contribution and enter 1 for the Contribution id.

I did this, still everything is in test mode.

I should mention that I am still testing, so in the Payment Processor, both the LIVE and TEST environments point to the sandbox.paypal.com site.  I wouldn't expect this to matter, but maybe it does.

I know that the memberships I'm doing are being created as tests because I can only find them when I click Find Test only.

To make confuse things further, I have the online contribution setup for any old joe schmoe to be able to register online and purchase their membership.  I logged out of the site and went through the process of registering and it worked fine.  gave it a unique email address and name, etc.  Then I went into the backend and found that I there were 2 members - cool.  When I searched - both were test users (see above) but the wierd thing is the "anonymous" user's membership somehow got attached to the existing user.

My contact matching is the default: first_name AND last_name AND email.

If it matters: the user id is testuser and the email address is test@domain1.  The anonymous user had an email address of test@domain2.

Also, when I check the Dashboard, I don't see my membership or contribution, I'm guessing this is because, it's being processed as a test and not a live membership?

Thanks
Patrick

Hi,

How about these questions:

1. To make confuse things further, I have the online contribution setup for any old joe schmoe to be able to register online and purchase their membership.  I logged out of the site and went through the process of registering and it worked fine.  gave it a unique email address and name, etc.  Then I went into the backend and found that I there were 2 members - cool.  When I searched - both were test users (see above) but the wierd thing is the "anonymous" user's membership somehow got attached to the existing user.

2. Also, when I check the Dashboard, I don't see my membership or contribution, I'm guessing this is because, it's being processed as a test and not a live membership?

1. You will need to reproduce issue 1 on demo, and if so, please file an issue. I suspect that you did not log out when u did the test and hence it attached. You might want to try doing it from another browser (hence different cookie etc)

2. tesm we suppress 'test' records and display them ONLY in search when the test flag is enabled

lobo
 

#1: what is happening here is that CiviCRM is taking data from PayPal and is creating the contact information with what comes back from PayPal.  The net effect being that PayPal is generating the contact.  So the question is: "is this good or bad? what are the drawbacks and can it be turned off?"

#2: Indeed, when I pointed to the Live PayPal server, it processed as a live membership.