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I'm new to CiviCRM. Trying to test entering an online contribution using the dummy payment processor. Realize you can only run in test drive versus live mode when using a dummy processor. It all runs fine, I get the email receipt and the thank you page. HOWEVER, no contribution is added to the database??? It adds the contact info I entered on the online donate page, but I can't find any trace of the contribution or even a membership (when I tried that as well).

What am I missing, folks?

Thanks for that suggestion. However, I still want to show a potential client how an online contribution actually is handled in CiviCRM. Is there a way to do this?

Test contributions don't show in the Contact's "Contributions" tab - only in the Find Contributions search results. If you want to "hack" this for purposes of demo'ing to your client you can update the record via SQL after you determine the ID of the contribution (id=N in the view / edit contribution URL):

UPDATE civicrm_contribution set is_test = 0 where id = N;

I'm kind of in same boat also putting together a demo for a NPO that I'm hoping will make the switch. 

I'm using the "live contribution page" with a paypal sandbox account as payment processor.  The contributions are also not being displayed or tallied in the contributions totals.

So, am I correct that I'll also have to do the manual work around?  it would be nice if you could tell CiviCRM that the whole site is in 'demo' mode so that it would calculate those things. 

You'll need to hack the code to do this.

Check: CRM/Contribute/BAO/Query.php and perhaps hack line 297 to ignore contribution_test?

lobo