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MattFinNew Member

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iOS manage subscriptions seems to be broken with "Can't Connect"

This isn’t strictly related to revenue cat, but I wondered if the community had a practical solution to what appears to be a common problem. We test our iOS subscriptions using the recommendations here: https://www.revenuecat.com/blog/engineering/the-ultimate-guide-to-subscription-testing-on-ios/#h-testing-procedures Recently, our internal testers seem unable to cancel subscriptions. When we press the Apple Id → Manage button, it just shows a screen that says “Can’t Connect”. It seems there are a bunch of Apple issues raised on this (e.g. https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/720910, https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/717584?page=2) and they seem to suggest either signing out/in, or upgrading. Neither of which work. Any practical workarounds from the revenue cat community?

sfung3New Member

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Released app but app icon not updating

Anyone know how to pull in the app store icon? I released my app to the app store ~10 hours ago and it has not updated yet. Last time if I remember correctly, it was instant. Is there a toggle I have to click?

bibhuti9New Member

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Can I purchase a product with more than 1 quantity?

Can I checkout multiple quantity at the same transaction. I have a question about IAP where I want to add multiple quantity checkout of consumable products at the same transaction. how can I do this?

nethius27New Member

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Sudden Termination of Apple Developer Account - Seeking Community Advice

Hello, everyone,I hope you're all doing well. I'm facing an unfortunate issue with my Apple Developer Program membership that was suddenly terminated. I received a generic email from Apple, stating that my membership was revoked, but no specific reason was provided for this action.I appealed the decision, offering all possible explanations and commitments to adhere to guidelines, only to be met with a reply stating that the decision is "final" and no subsequent appeals will be processed.Has anyone here faced a similar situation? Are there any steps that can be taken to understand the reason for termination when Apple doesn't disclose it? Is there a way to open a dialogue with Apple, even when they've stated that their decision is final? Would publicizing this issue through social media or blogs be advisable?This is a particularly trying time for us, as we are recovering from a recent earthquake and our app is our sole source of income.Any insights, advice, or shared experiences would b

colin-masters-dc976dNew Member

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Multiple Subscription Problem

I am facing an issue with trying to understand how to set up my products. Let me detail out how the product would work. I am creating an app which offers paid, private communities, so you have the following entities;Hosts - the person who hosts the community Members - people who join the community Community - the actual communityI want to charge a monthly fee per community and depending on the number of members, lets say $5 a month for 100 members & $10 a month for 200 members. Ultimately, I would like to offer hosts the ability to purchase multiple communities of various sizes.A single host might;Have 1 community of 100 members Have 2 communities of 200 membersErgo, the host would have 3 payments per month of $5, $10, $10 which is $25 per month. Leaving aside the particular concerns of the platforms like Apple or Google, how would I achieve this inside RevenueCat?

ramazan hazirNew Member

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Trouble Viewing Apple Search Ads Data in Revcat Charts: Seeking Assistance

Hello,We've been experiencing an issue in the Revcat chart section where we haven't been able to see Apple Search Ads data for a while. Until March, we were able to view Apple Search Ads campaign/ad group data segmented properly, but recently, when we try to segment the data, we don't see any revenue coming from the search ads side. We haven't made any changes on the advertising side, but the revenue data is not showing up on the Revcat dashboard.What steps should we take to correct the data flow?

dphl7da29eNew Member

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What is in_app_purchase refers to

I don't understand what in_app_purchase refers to. I thought that it refers to a functionality like Screen A will be disabled until a payment is made. From online information, it seems like in_app_purchase refers to products to sell through the app.It is not about a functionality to buy.I am bit confused like what type of products you would see in your app. A mobile app is not a regular e-commerce store.On Google Play, I've seen quite a number of apps (not a game) have in_app_purchases. From many app descriptions, it is not clear what is included in the in-app purchase.Typically, for a software program, you could see based on a plan by plan basis how each plan is different like what functionality is included in each plan.With the in-app purchase, it is very blurry what is included in the in-app purchases.Could you please provide examples and explain.

infinilNew Member

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Should I show paywall or restore purchases button after user has done a successful purchase?

Let’s suppose there is a subscription group with monthly and yearly product. Now a user purchases my monthly plan then should I allow users to view the paywall? Currently my approach is to let users know they already own the “Pro” package which doesn’t let them redirect to a paywall and because of that they can’t also see restore purchases button. So should i still separately show the restore puchases button? or keep following my current approach?

Carlos_devNew Member

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How to update Play Billing Library 6 correctly in my Flutter project?

I’m using the purchases_flutter: ^5.6.2 and I am trying to set an monthly subscription in Android, I have all the steps mentioned in the Google Play checklist but apparently its not working properly, using the same setup for iOS works fine, Do I need add some implements in the AndroidManifest or build.grade or anything else?

phil-matthewHelper

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Testing RevenueCat / Stripe Integration

I’m hitting a bit of a wall getting the RevenueCat/Stripe integration up and running, mainly because I haven’t found a good path for testing test/sandbox subscriptions. I can do testing against Stripe Live, but that isn’t really a good solution..Stripe seems to only allow installation of the RC App in Live mode. It also appears that RC only allows one Stripe integration per project, meaning that I can only have one webhook config for Stripe with one Stripe webhook secret. I don’t want to (lol), but it seems like I could:Create a second RC project and attach the Stripe Test webhook there. Proxy the Stripe Test web hooks, and forward them onto RC. I haven’t tested this, so I haven’t verified if the checks on RC endpoint would allow these coming from a different source. Test in Stripe Live mode.Do I have any better options? I’m hoping I’ve just missed something that makes this really easy.Thanks in advance.

DanielRNew Member

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Can I grant all app users free entitlement for 1 month?

Hello,I am wondering whether it’s possible to grant all users of my app a Premium entitlement for 1 month, lets say for the entire September. I want all existing and new users to receive this entitlement as long as it is still September. Currently my app has launched and there are already a few active subscriptions, the free 1 month premium would not really affect these users since most of them are already on trial but if they were to cancel for whatever reason, they should still have Premium for remainder of September.An alternative to this would be that new users would get 1 month entitlement from the day they download the app, however I don’t know how this would work for existing users.I also want to easily be able to apply the entitlement to all app users at once if possible and new users should also continue to get it.What is the best way to go about this?

mark147Dedicated Member

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UserId strategy when migrating paid Android app to RevenueCat

I have a paid Android app which I want to migrate to RevenueCat and also make free (converting each app purchase to an equivalent in-app purchase - but I’m not talking about the details of this here). Since the app is currently paid, I do a license check using Google Play’s License Verification Library. This library gives a userId which is unique for that user-app combination and will not change in the future even with uninstall-reinstall etc. This userId does not expose any information about the user (looks like some meaningless hash). At first glance, this looks like a good userId to set through the RevenueCat SDK. Even after the app is made free, the License Verification Library can be used to fetch the userId, and so also fetch any entitlements through the RevenueCat SDK. Now, this will work for the Android app, but a new userId strategy will be needed once I expand to other platforms. I’m not worried about this for now, however. Has anyone used this strategy before? Any issues I m

yhyhyhNew Member

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Question about importing iOS receipts from the server side

Currently, we plan to use observer mode to import iOS receipts from the server side into RevenueCat. However, we do not have currency and price information. I noticed in the receipt API documentation that it's possible to infer this information using store_country and ip_address. Where does this information come from? If I synchronize all iOS products with RevenueCat, will it obtain this information from the product details?

hardiNew Member

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entitlements lost after subscription extension

hello,I am using this on the sandbox testing that after 5 minutes subscription will be extended.It seems that after subscription extension, user will need to restore purchase manually as the entitlements checking for isactive will return to not active. Is it the expected behavior like when uninstall and reinstall the app behavior? Thx

hardiNew Member

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checking user subscription status with custom app id

Hi there,currently i am trying to implemented revenuecat to my flutter app. it was awesome and going so well. I am using custom app id and get the id from google sign in. To avoid creating anonymous id i implemented :await Purchases.configure(PurchasesConfiguration(withAPIKey: <my_api_key>)..appUserID = "my_app_user_id");Then User will login with google sign in and i implemented this :LogInResult result = await Purchases.logIn(<id taken from google sign in>);and it all going well and behave how it supposed to be. The problem comes when the the app restart and i need to know the user subscription status programatically when the app started, the code is:await Purchases.logIn(<id taken from google sign in>);if (customerInfo.entitlements.all["Premium Monthly"]!.isActive ==true) {//grant premium feature}and it turns null as the subscription checking is not active. but when i leave the login code behind like this :if (customerInfo.entitlements.all["Premium Monthly"]!.isActi

RouuugeActive Member

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Wrong Trial Date in Android

hi,I have an app that offers both Light and Pro subscriptions.A user subscribed to the Light subscription on 08.10.2022. Today, the user upgraded to the Pro subscription. The Pro subscription comes with a 3-day trial period. However, I've noticed that the expires_date is now set to approximately 18 days. Could someone explain this to me?

fortun3r-ed5b2aNew Member

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Getting "Purchases offerings error" & BILLING_UNAVAILABLE."

Our Android Live app is seeing a lot of the following errors when users try to pay for our app. Recently, a lot of users with newer Android phones are also having this issue so don’t believe it’s a Google Play version issue. Does anyone know what is causing this? "Purchases offerings error" {"code":3,"message":"The device or user is not allowed to make the purchase.","readableErrorCode":"PurchaseNotAllowedError","readable_error_code":"PurchaseNotAllowedError","underlyingErrorMessage":"Billing is not available in this device. DebugMessage: Google Play In-app Billing API version is less than 3. ErrorCode: BILLING_UNAVAILABLE."}

LydiaActive Member

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No offer id for new Google Play products in Segment events

Hi there,It looks like in events sent to Segment the product_id for new Google Play subscription products is the <subscription id>:<base_plan_id>, however it doesn’t give any details about which offer the user purchased. Would it be possible to either get an additional offer_id field on the event, or change the product_id to also include the offer id, e.g. <subscription id>:<base_plan_id>:<offer_id>.Thanks,Lydia

0xDEVNew Member

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Android Billing Library version 5

Has anyone else experienced issues with the Android Billing Library version 5 when in-app purchases don't load? I receive the error "BillingClient: Querying product details is not supported." This started earlier this month for some of my clients. It's extremely frustrating, and I can't seem to find a solution.

building-bridges-e3d355New Member

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Blacklist a certain App Store / Play Store account

Hi, How could I block a delinquent App Store / Play Store account from making a purchase again? I already block the app user id in my backend, but nothing prevents the delinquent from signing up again (different email) and obtaining a new app user id.

LydiaActive Member

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Product unavailable errors on new Google Play Billing Library 5 products

Hi there, We recently created and launched some new products using the new subscription structure and the latest react native purchase SDK. Everything here (based in the UK) is working fine. However we are getting a high number of productUnavailable errors when looking at our data in lots of other countries. To name a few: Nigeria, India, Brazil, Angola, Turkey. I have checked all our products and they should be available in all countries and regions and we have no such issues with our existing backward compatible old products. The products have been activated in the store for about 3 weeks. The strange part is that I can see from our tracking data that the users are able to fetch and view the products in the app, the error only comes at the point at which they try to make the purchase.Do you have any idea what might be happening here? Many thanks, Lydia

StorologyHelper

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Clear Purchase History for TestFlight Users

Hello!I know that by developers locally its possible to clear the Purchase History on the Sandbox Testers section in AppStoreConnect. But how to clear the Purchase History for TestFlight testers that are not necesary connected to the Mac with cable and XCode?Is it posible? Where do I see the purchases I’ve made?Thanks in advance,Paolo.

JeremyHelper

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Multiple projects and server notifications: do they automatically get routed?

Looking at option 3 in this post, it seems to be implying that if I create two RevenueCat projects for the same app, the webhook requests would be directed to the correct endpoint (production vs staging) all based on the project public API key used at the time of purchase (or other action). Is this correct? Since Google doesn’t really have a different server notification pubsub based on environment and apple is purely based on prod vs sandbox transactions, how does RevenueCat route the webhook requests to the correct endpoint?

OmarNew Member

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Multiple subscriptions with the same apple ID

Hello!We’re working on an app that allows users to register an account and create a “Business” that can list its menu, offers, branches, and many other details. We have a registration phase where the user signs in using email OTP. We want to follow a business model that includes renewable subscriptions where each subscription is associated with a business such that if the user subscribes using business A, signs out, and registers a new business B, the new business B would be on the basic plan and the user must be able to subscribe again using the business B, but since payments are associated with the Apple ID, apple will see the newer business B as already subscribed and will throw an error saying that you’re already subscribed. We thought about having different subscription groups where each group would correspond to a different business, so in the above example business A would have a subscription from Group 1, and business B would have a subscription from Group 2. We would then stor

Vekta AppsNew Member

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Notice about InAppProduct API usage

I am getting the following warning in my application. I don't want to have any surprises when these dates arrive.https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/06/changes-to-google-play-developer-api-june-2023.html Start your migration to the monetization.subscriptions APIsIf you use the Google Play Developer API client libraries - available for Java, Python, and other popular languages - we recommend upgrading to the latest versions, which already include the monetization.subscriptions APIs. Base plans can be managed with the monetization.subscription.basePlans API, and introductory pricing and free trials can be managed as offers with the monetization.subscriptions.basePlans.offers API.I'm using purchases_flutter version: ^5.2.3.Should I be concerned?I await guidance.You're using the InAppProduct API to manage subscriptions, which is now deprecated and will stop being supported for new apps in January 2024, and for all apps in May 2024. Start using the new Subscriptions API to get ne

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