The $1 test order
A $1 authorization hold on your own card proves the whole path works. Payd releases the hold; nothing is captured.
Before you go live, Payd asks for one test order on your real checkout. It checks the things a demo can’t: that your Whop business takes cards, your shipping rates, that the order is written into Shopify (including buyer details on the Basic plan), and the whole round trip.
Your real checkout opens with two of your products that ship. You pay with your own card.
Whop puts a $1 authorization hold on the card instead of charging the total.
Payd writes a test order into Shopify, marked as a test and tagged payd-test: no receipt email and no stock taken.
Payd cancels the Shopify test order and releases the hold.
Nothing is captured, so Whop keeps no fee and there is nothing to refund. Some banks show the pending $1 for a few days before it disappears. If Whop ever collects it anyway, Payd refunds it automatically.
Before you test
- Test orders take cards only (Apple Pay and Google Pay too): a hold can’t be placed on PayPal. Your live checkout also shows PayPal and the other methods Whop turns on for your business.
- Pause apps that fulfill, print or ship orders automatically.
- Make sure Whop has turned card payments on (Payd shows it in the Whop step; some keys can’t read it, then the test order is the check).
- Repeating the test? Use a different email if Whop refuses the same buyer twice.