If you are in the building and testing phase of your app, sandbox is the right place for you. The Clover sandbox environment is a testbed where you can experiment with the platform's capabilities.
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You can:
- Create test merchant accounts to manage merchant data and install and test your solutions for these test merchant accounts without your app approvals.
- Create test merchants in other regions where you want to make your app available.
- Associate Dev Kits with your sandbox developer account.
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- Publish your apps in the sandbox environment. Create your production account and follow proper procedures to publish and have your apps approved by Clover App Market.
- Use release groups in the sandbox. You can only create release groups for approved apps.
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If you have tried out our APIs and are ready to build an app for real-time use, create your region-specific production developer account,
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- Your app is linked to a production developer account. This account must be verified and approved by Clover before app approval can begin.
- You can submit your developer account for approval on production even while you are building and testing your app on the sandbox.
Note: To minimize app approval delays, be sure all information is complete and accurate.
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- Dev Kits are not available for the production environment. You can only associate Dev Kits with your sandbox developer account.
- Production demo merchants do not provide as accurate results as the sandbox RapidConnect gateway for test payments.
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