Any plans to support Google Play's OneTimeProduct REST resource?

Hey there,

Thank you for your message. Matt from RevenueCat here!

This is actually something the team has been investigating recently, after Google introduced a new way to support one-time purchases using a new API.

Our current understanding is that this is a warning rather than a blocker. Since we already support both APIs, it should be fine to use either the inappproducts or oneTimeProducts endpoints, and you shouldn’t run into any issues making purchases. That said, we’d love to better understand why you’re seeing this and whether this is a newly introduced warning from Google or a case we haven’t yet considered.

Can you confirm if you’re seeing this error in Google Play Console when updating the price? If you’re able to share a screenshot, that would be really helpful. If the screenshot contains any sensitive data, please feel free to private message me, or open a support ticket and reference this post so we can investigate further.

Thank you for any additional information!

Hi Matt,

Sure thing. This is what I see:

The "Set prices" button is completely greyed out and I cannot click on it.

I wonder if I need to deactivate the in-app purchase in order to edit it but I'm afraid of doing so as this is a live app

Hey there,

Thank you for clarifying. I have spoken to the engineering team about this one.

Yes, I can confirm that to use these features in the Google Play Console, you will need to migrate within the Google Play Console. You can start this by tapping “review migration”.

Doing this would not have any impact on using RevenueCat. However, we currently do not support OTP offers with the dashboard and the SDK. As long as you work with backwards-compatible products in the dashboard, you will be fine to migrate to use these areas of the Google Play Console, and doing so is safe.

I hope this helps! If you have any additional questions regarding this, please let me know!

Thanks!

Hi Matt,

Thanks for confirming.

I am a bit confused by your comment on "we currently do not support OTP offers with the dashboard and the SDK". What does this mean?

Also, how can I ensure that it is a backwards-compatible product?

Best,

Vlad

Hey Vlad,

Sorry for any confusion with the wording there.

When you migrate, Google may give you access to some newer offer features for one-time purchases as part of the latest One Time Products updates. Some of these features are still very new and are not yet supported by RevenueCat.

However, regular one-time purchases themselves continue to work completely fine with RevenueCat. For any newer functionality we do not yet support, we have backwards compatibility systems in place, where supported versions can continue to be used to ensure there are no issues within your app or for your users.

You can confirm whether your product is backwards compatible directly in the RevenueCat dashboard. Navigate to your app's product details page, where there is a backwards compatibility flag synced from Google Play Console. If you want to trigger an immediate sync of this status, simply opening the product details page will do so.

For more details on this, we have some docs which can be found here: https://www.revenuecat.com/docs/getting-started/entitlements/google-subscriptions-and-backwards-compatibility

I hope this helps!

Thanks!

Hi Matt,

I don’t see any backwards compatibility flags in the product page of RevenueCat… I went through the docs you sent but I just don’t see anything like it.

I only see these fields

When clicking on the “Review Migration” button in the Play Console I get this pop-up which is a bit scary.

Can you please confirm that everything will be fine? I have a lot of users using this IAP and use RevenueCat to check for the entitlements. If it were to stop working that would be catastrophic and I would lose the trust of all those users which have supported me.

Thanks,

Vlad