What are the differences between the sandbox and live environments.
Overview
When you sign up to the Bond platform and obtain authorization keys, you are immediately granted access to either the sandbox or production environments. The keys issued to you are specific to one of the environments.
Note
Requests made to the sandbox do not move any real money.
Use the sandbox for testing your implementation. When you're happy with the results, simply change the URL used and use your production keys for production access.
URLs
The following table shows the URLs used by our sandbox and live production environments.
| Environment | URL |
|---|---|
| Sandbox | https://sandbox.bond.tech/api/v0/ |
| Production | https://api.bond.tech/api/v0/ |
Features
The following table shows specific actions that are available in our sandbox and production environments.
| Capabilities | Available in Sandbox | Available in Production |
|---|---|---|
| Create and update a Customer | ✅ | ✅ |
| Create and update a Business resource | ✅ | ✅ |
| Run KYC (Know-Your-Customer) | ✅ | ✅ |
| Live currency transactions | ❌ | ✅ |
| Create a card | ✅ | ✅ |
| Activate a card | ✅ | ✅ |
| Reissue a card | ✅ | ✅ |
| Close a card | ✅ | ✅ |
| Transactions | ✅ | ✅ |
| Account Balances | ✅ | ✅ |
| Link an External Account | ✅ | ✅ |
| Retrieve all linked accounts | ✅ | ✅ |
| Initiate an ACH transfer | ✅ | ✅ |
| Cancel an ACH transfer | ✅ | ✅ |
| Initiate a dispute | ✅ | ✅ |