Exchange Sandbox

How Exchange behaves in the sandbox and what it simulates

The sandbox lets you exercise the full Exchange flow (funding, beneficiaries, trading, and withdrawals) without moving real money. It’s the same sandbox as Collect and Payouts, and like them it’s kept apart from live: your sandbox has its own API credentials and dashboard access, and sandbox and live environments never mix.

Requests go to the same https://api.crisscross.money as production, and your credentials decide the environment.

Simulated behaviour

Operation	Behaviour	Timeline
Create a beneficiary (crypto)	Compliance validation is simulated	Active almost immediately after creation
Create a beneficiary (fiat)	In live environments, compliance validation requires documents to be submitted. To simulate this in a sandbox, please get in contact with us to approve - no documents will be required.	After CrissCross has approved the account
Create a withdrawal	`pending` → `processing` → `completed`	Withdrawals are processed in batch every 5 minutes
Accept a quote	Order is `filled` on acceptance, and balances update	Immediately

Exchange has no trigger values in the sandbox. To test a failure, you set up the state that causes it — an expired quote, a balance that’s too low, a beneficiary that isn’t active yet. Your First Trade and Your First Withdrawal list each one.

Failures that come from outside your request can’t be produced in the sandbox yet: a withdrawal that fails or is returned by the bank, a beneficiary or deposit rejected by compliance.

Funding your sandbox balance

Before you can trade or withdraw you’ll need a balance to work with. Sandbox balances are seeded through deposits created by CrissCross on your behalf. Contact your account manager to have your sandbox organisation topped up in the currencies you want to test.