Does anyone have a best practice for testing within a production account, other than deleting transactions after testing is complete? We have a partner who has their own sandbox fees, and it seems silly to pay for those as well.

Make sure you use Test entities (customers, vendors, etc.) so you don’t inadvertently send emails to real contacts. Testing in Production is doable, frankly, I even prefer that because it eliminates recreation of additional configs post-testing from Sandbox to Production.

There are definitely pieces I test in production during an implementation from scratch. No sense configuring big pieces in both places.

yes TEST versions of everything so you can run financials and get a script to delete transactions after.

Are you saying your partner charges you Sandbox fees on top of what NS charges for a Sandbox? I'd find a new partner. That's ridiculous if that's what you mean.

Actually, I missed that completely.

@RJMNS Yes, and to be clear, this partner is an EDI provider. They are asking $300/month additional for a sandbox account on their platform.

Oh. An edi partner charging for their sandbox makes sense

@KevinJ of Kansas could you elaborate on why not?

EDI normally takes multiple attempts to get right - including testing transactions and communication back and forth with your end customers