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dfdfdadfadf-381962New Member
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what does it mean Opted-out of renewal, confusing

i see Opted-out of renewal on the subscription history of our subscribers. does it mean refund? it’s too confusing. does it mean they paid the subscription but will not renew next year?

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Ryan Glanz
RevenueCat Staff
yavuzakyazici
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How can I get Paywall localization working?

I am trying to localize Paywalls with no success.I tried to enter detailed text in Paywall setup.However, month and year words are never get translated. Actually, They are both localized inside Google and Apple stores.They show up correct once you go inside Apple or Google after clicking paywall but not on the actual paywall. So, how should I set this up?

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aseemk-portolaNew Member
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Import historical Apple transactions with transaction IDs rather than base64 receipts?

Hi there, I did find a similar post to what I wanted to ask here, but it’s now closed for comments: Our context is that we implemented and shipped IAPs ourselves, before we decided RevenueCat was worth trying out. We didn’t store the raw base64 receipts, because Apple actually discourages and deprecated the /verifyReceipt endpoint last year. We did store every transaction ID, though, and —as that post notes — we’re able to get the full transaction info securely and verifiably through the App Store Server API. Since we don’t have the base64 receipts, we indeed went with a client-side migration path, but the result is that RC’s data even a week+ after shipping is incomplete. We’re trying RevenueCat out now, but it’s been really hard to trust and rely on RC data when we can see the numbers are still incomplete and inaccurate (like still 30% off in some cases!!). Is there any way you all could reconsider this limitation? This would be very meaningful to us. Could you also share more about

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dfdfdadfadf-381962New Member
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what does it mean Opted-out of renewal?

i see Opted-out of renewal on the subscription history of our subscribers. does it mean refund? it’s too confusing. does it mean they paid the subscription but will not renew next year?

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VR93New Member
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How to hide a subscription plan?

I have over 500 users subscribed to a certain price plan. I want to increase the price of my app, but I want to let my current 500 users continue with that plan indefinitely. I can create a new plan with a higher price and make everything work fine in my paywall. The problem is, people can still sneak into the app store and view my old lower price offer and subscribe to that. I don’t see any way to disable old prices in app store connect without ruining it for all my existing users. Is there a solution to this for ios & android?

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jeffrey_bunn
RevenueCat Staff
Peter Keefe
Peter KeefeNew Member
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Feature Request: Exclude Customers with Attribute ___ from Experiments

I’m a big fan of the Experiments feature. However, in my app I have a discount/affiliate program that gives certain users a discounted price. In the app, if they have the custom RevenueCat attribute “latest_referral” set, it will override their assigned Offering and use the Offering associated with that referral instead. It would be great if I could ignore/exclude customers with that attribute from the results of experiments.

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wes_clark
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abdulakhad-d49cd8Newcomer
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Google Play Billing Library version 6.0.1

we are using purchases_flutter package in pubspec.yaml version info below:- purchases_flutter: ^6.3.0 in pubspec.lock version info below:purchases_flutter: dependency: "direct main" description: name: purchases_flutter sha256: "5791321994934c265f9a178c69a329e0f7c21b1975b1e40abfadfa1a3f07cd8a" url: "https://pub.dev" source: hosted version: "6.24.0" From Google play console has issue ‘App must use Google Play Billing Library version 6.0.1 or later’ How can fix this.Regards Abdulahad

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dksdNew Member
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Error Fetching Offerings Post-Flutter Upgrade: Null Type Cast Exception

After upgrading our Flutter environment from version 3.13.8 to 3.19.3, we encountered a persistent error when fetching offerings from RevenueCat using the purchases_flutter plugin. The application throws a type cast exception, specifically type 'Null' is not a subtype of type 'Map<dynamic, dynamic>' in type cast, during the offerings fetch operation. Details Flutter Version: Upgraded from 3.13.8 to 3.19.3. purchases_flutter Version: Initially encountered on version 6.21.0; upgraded to 6.24.0 in an attempt to resolve the issue, but the error persists. Error Message: type 'Null' is not a subtype of type 'Map<dynamic, dynamic>' in type cast Error Location: The error occurs within the try-catch block around the Purchases.getOfferings() call, indicating an issue with handling the fetched offerings data. Observations: The debug logs indicate that the getOfferings call successfully contacts RevenueCat and receives a response, but fails during JSON deserialization or handling within the plugin

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moe-sayed-dc7a3fNew Member
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upgrading to google billing lib > 6.0.1

Google play now requires billing lib >= 6.0.1 , I found this blog: https://www.revenuecat.com/blog/engineering/google-play-billing-library-7-features-migration/ I added `implementation "com.android.billingclient:billing:7.0.0"` and updated Revenuecat to 8.2.1 I exclusively use the Revenuecat sdk for my app, namely: `Purchases.sharedInstance.purchaseWith , getOfferingsWith , awaitSyncPurchases, awaitRestore, getCustomerInfoWith, awaitCustomerInfo` do I need to make any more changes before uploading my app ?

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JRC_STPNew Member
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40-45% Billing Error

Hi! I recently launched a hard paywall in my app and have had a fair few people each day sign up to the 3 day free trial. Around 55% of users remain after the 3 day trial but I am finding that when it ends around 40-45% of the remaining users are running into 'billing errors' meaning they end up not paying at the end of the trial despite never cancelling. The app does target a younger audience, but this still feels way too high. Has anyone come across this issue before at such a high % and if so, is there anything we can do to try and improve this number? Thank you!

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MarxwilHelper
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Two separate paywalls

Hello, I want to have two separate paywalls for my app. One for subscriptions and for one one-time purchases. I have created both paywalls in my RevenueCat account. However, when I use the RevenueCatUI.presentPaywallIfNeeded() function with different strings for offering identifiers, I get every time the default offering. In other words, the second paywall does not show even through I have put the correct offering identifier. Do you know how to achieve the behavior I described above?

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MarxwilHelper
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Two separate paywalls with RevenueCatUI.presentPaywallIfNeeded()

Hello, I want to have two separate paywalls for my app. One for subscriptions and for one one-time purchases. I have created both paywalls in my RevenueCat account. However, when I use the RevenueCatUI.presentPaywallIfNeeded() function with different strings for offering identifiers, I get every time the default offering. In other words, the second paywall does not show even though I have put the correct offering identifier. Do you know how to achieve the behavior I described above? Just to clarify, the user does not have the entitlements so the paywall shows.

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MathieuNew Member
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Experiments to run A/B tests on other things than Offerings

RC’s Experiments seems pretty useful but completely linked to Offerings. The thing is I would like to use RevenueCat’s Experiments to run A/B tests for other things than my paywall: trial funnels, changes in UI and texts, … Is there any way to do that? I was wondering if I could use Offerings metadata for that, but would I still need multiple Offerings? I really want to keep only one Offering but test other things...

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adria-ab74bfNew Member
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Not getting subscriptions associated to a customerId

Hi, I am trying to get subscriptions associated to a customer_id calling https://api.revenuecat.com/v2/projects/{project_id}/customers/{customer_id}/subscriptions but none found even though I know customer has one subscription associated. I've double checked that my api_key is the correct one and also project_id and customer_id are correct values. Postman returning 200 but no subscription appears in items[] Thanks

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Ryan Glanz
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madelineNew Member
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Sandbox not completing purch

I’m using the sandbox in the iOS simulator. The iOS version is 17.4. I’m using the paywall from Revenue to prompt user’s to purchase. When I click button to purchase, the phone shows me info about my purchase (see photo below) and if I click `Subscribe`, it asks me to log into my sandbox account. After logging in, I here a beep and briefly see the word `done` on the phone, but I just get redirected back to the spot in the photo and the subscription isn’t registered. No errors are being logged from the Revenue Cat SDK either. Does anyone know what I’m doing wrong?

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kaitlin
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ScottySmallsNew Member
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Are there rate limits to the REST API?

Are there any limitations set for frequency / quantity of REST API requests?

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vladan-523d8aNew Member
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Google Play Billing Library

My application uses RevenueCat 7.0.0, and it does not include the Google Play Billing Library. I received a message from the Play Console stating that it is necessary to have Google Play Billing Library version 6.0.1 or higher. How can I update my project to comply with this requirement? Is it enough to add the following dependency: def billingVersion = 7.0.0 implementation "com.android.billingclient:billing:$billingVersion" Do I need to make any additional changes to the code, or can I simply update RevenueCat and add this dependency?

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laura-wanderlyNew Member
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Expected behavior of grant entitlements (caching & getCustomerInfo)

I’m trying to implement a gift card redemption flow in my ReactNative app. I’m testing in sandbox / staging right now. Currently, once the user inputs a code, it fires of a request to my backend, which does the call to the Grant Entitlements REST API. My backend then returns a success state, and then my frontend rechecks getCustomerInfo, but it’s not working as expected. TL;DR: How should I be checking for customerInfo in my ReactNative app after I grant an entitlement via the REST API? It doesn’t seem to be refreshing correctly? It seems to be the case that the user’s Promo entitlement in customerInfo can’t be updated with subsequent successful calls to grantEntitlement, which means that the same user can’t redeem multiple subsequent promotions. Is this just a sandbox / staging thing, a short duration thing (I have it set for 10 min intervals for testing), or is this a production limitation? FULL CONTEXT // NOTE: I had to string together multiple examples, so ignore the timestamps In

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andriyGNew Member
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How experiments work with targeting

I have a question about how experiments work when targeting is configured. Suppose I have a simple app which lets you track your hikes or bike rides. And I have two offerings: OfferingBike and OfferingHike which are shown to users depending on a custom attribute called preferredActivityType. This is just to make things easier. One of these, say OfferingBike is set as default in console, although I never use this directly as I always set my custom attribute. So, in my case, the “default” offering is irrelevant. Now I want to do an experiment. I want to try a new offering for bike riders. So I create a new one called OfferingBikeTest and adjust metadata. I say I want to test it against OfferingBike, which is set as default in my console. I wonder how will the A/B test work in this case? Which users will be included? Will it be all users, or will I only get results from users who purchased a package belonging to either OfferingBike or OfferingBikeTest, ignoring those who make purchases th

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vladislav-fdf079New Member
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If you “refund” a payment via Stripe, the user is deleted in Revenuecat

At the request of the user, we have refunded his payment through the payment system “Stripe”: As a result, when we try to find this user in revenuecat - there is no such user: If we try to go by direct URL to his account - an error is also displayed: What are we doing wrong? Why was the account deleted?

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yavuzakyazici
yavuzakyaziciHelper
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using Purchases.logIn for defined userid, but subscription goes to Apple UserId.

Hello everyone, First of all thanks for a very well thought out product, entitlement, offering setup. It is indeed well thought. I have an educational app. The app has react-native expo as front-end and Python FastAPI as backend.My app has a monthly and yearly subscription options. I am pretty sure that it will stay that way. Meaning… It is very unlikely for me to add consumable goods, one-shot purchases, extra packages etc.. I am able to get subscriptions working for anonymous users. However, it is suggested that I use Purchases.login for more defined customer tracking. Fine :) I tried it but I was not really successful.Or, … it is successful but I did not get it. I have my own authentication and backend for my app. So, I wanted to base subscriptions on user login info which is email as username and a password.Once the user logs in, I would save the user email and also do Purchases.login() with email.Once I get the subscription info after Purchases.login() I would check for activeSubs

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BG37Member
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Purchases.restorePurchases too slow

I call Purchases. Restoring Purchases takes about 7-10 seconds on both Android and iOS. I call it on the Splash screen, but it dramatically annoys the user. Can you give me an idea of how to get rid of it?

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yavuzakyazici
yavuzakyaziciHelper
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Is there any way to set the test-subscription life cycle?

Can we set the test-subscription life cycle anywhere?Can we set it up so monthly subscription expires in a day and yearly expires in 3 days or free introductory offer lasts longer?

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laurent-vienne-e49472New Member
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3 different monthly plan price

Hi I would like to have 3 different monthly package, early bird at $49, $99 and $149 how can I do that ?

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miricanvasNew Member
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What happens if a customer is deleted from RevenueCat and their subscription is renewed in your store?

If a deleted customer's subscription in RevenueCat is actually active, and the renewal occurs on the subscription renewal date, can RevenueCat detect the subscription in store?

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Ryan Glanz
RevenueCat Staff

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