Test Business Center

 

Every Cybersource account initially provides access to Test Business Center (sometimes referred to as CAS). Test Business Center is used exclusively for testing, providing you the opportunity to process 'dummy' transactions within a test environment in order to verify the connections between your environment and Cybersource. Cybersource's test environment emulates a connection to the payment processor/card association; no data passes to the payment processor.
 

 

Live Business Center

To process real payment transactions and allow funds to flow from the cardholder's/customer's issuer to your acquirer, your account must transition to Live status with a valid configuration for your chosen payment processor. Once live, transaction data submitted by you flows through the production Cybersource Gateway, to your processor, and on to the appropriate payment network.

Refer to How to request MID Activation (Go Live) for instructions to transition your account from Test to Live. 

From Business Center, you can view live transactions and download API or Secure Acceptance security keys for the production environment. After you go live, you may continue to access Test Business Center to submit and review test transactions.