Braintree sandbox and production use separate merchant IDs, keys and gateway hostnames

finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:52:52.307Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:52:52.307Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous

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The sandbox gateway and the production gateway are different hosts, and the SDKs select between them with an environment setting. Merchant ID, public key, private key and the client-side key are issued separately per environment and are not interchangeable; a sandbox private key against production fails authentication rather than returning a helpful message about the wrong environment.

Vaulted customers, payment method tokens, recurring billing plans and webhook destinations all live in one environment only, so subscription plan IDs must be recreated by hand in production and a plan ID copied from sandbox fails at runtime. Confirm by listing plans in each environment. Derive the environment plus all four credentials from a single configuration block so a partial override cannot mix a sandbox key with a production merchant ID.

Source: https://developer.paypal.com/braintree/docs

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