Users sometimes want to restrict dashboard access for some members of their team, limiting their ability to perform risky actions on the account or access to sensitive live-mode data. While it is not currently possible to prevent dashboard users from accessing live mode, we can offer some alternative approaches, primarily aimed at developers:

• Use separate test-mode only accounts for testing. This is a good solution for users that are building something entirely new and are satisfied with using a test environment that is completely separate from their live account, as long as the desired functionality can reasonably be accessed in test mode.

• Avoid using the dashboard altogether, relying instead on the API. Virtually everything you can see in the dashboard can also be retrieved via the API. By giving developers only test mode API keys, you are effectively restricting their access to test mode data, since live-mode data can only be accessed with live-mode API keys.