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mark147Dedicated Member

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Rationale behind non-consumable purchases on Google Play?

I’m new to RevenueCat and am looking into how I can migrate my existing app’s non-consumable in-app purchases to RevenueCat.I know this type of question has been asked several times, but none of the answers really answered my questionSo far, I’ve looked at using syncPurchases() but as stated in the documentation:Google Play Store does not provide an option to mark IAPs as consumable or non-consumable. RevenueCat's SDK will consume all Android IAPs upon purchase.To replicate the behavior of a non-consumable IAP for Android users, you must ensure your user will not offered the IAP after the initial purchase. Failure to do so will enable the user to re-purchase the IAP. ...and sure enough, in initial testing, as soon as I call syncPurchases() all of the user’s in-app products are consumed and the Google Play Billing client no longer sees the purchases.Regarding the first paragraph, when using the Google Play Billing API, we have the option to consume, or not consume the in-app purchase. A

jonathan-jumpyNew Member

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GooglePlay new Subscription API

Dear RevenueCat,First of all, thank you for developing and maintaining this solution. I have been users of your service in production for a few years now. It has been working great. However, recently I start seeing this error message in Google Play Console for my app. “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 new features including multiple base plans and offers, as well as prepaid plans.”I have some questions related to that. (For the background, I have been following the discussion about the Google Play Subscription Changes as well as went through the documentation in Google Play Product Setup) However, it is still not clear to me on whether or what kind of migration steps are required from my side. Thank you a lot for your support.I do not have a need for multiple base plans and prepaid. In other words, a sin

caseycrogersNew Member

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Best Way to show purchase history

What are the best practices for showing users’ their purchase history (for one time purchase consumables-not entitlements)? I especially want to make sure that users can see their purchase history if they attempted to make a purchase and it failed-so they can easily check to see if the purchase failed before or after they paid.Should I show them my own custom purchase list generated from `getCustomerInfo` or are there iOS and Play Store pages that I link them out to? The latter seems preferrable because, in the end, that is the true source of truth. But I’m not sure where to find such pages and how to link the user to them?

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Multiple Subscription IAP items [ProductChange] problem

Hello RevenueCat Community, I have 3 subscription itemfirstNumbersecondNumberthirdNumberI've encountered an issue where I'm trying to subscribe to multiple items, but RevenueCat RestAPI only logs one of them. While the actual subscription process seems to work on my end, the logs in RevenueCat only show one item being subscribed to.Upon checking the logs further, I noticed the term product_change. I dont want to change product, I want to subscribe another subscription item.I have tried it ,3 different entitlement it says product changei have tried it,1 entitlement (3 products) It says same product changeon the other hand apple transaction successfully,it takes the money.Has anyone else experienced this? Can someone shed light on what might be happening or how to resolve this? Any insights or advice would be greatly appreciated!Thank you in advance! Please check screenshots

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?

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?

Rafael NicdaoNew Member

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Is it possible for new users to get a Free trial (1 week) -> Discount (6 months) -> Regular price

We have an Android and IOS app with a “Pro” subscription product with a monthly and a yearly billing cycle.For now, I’ll talk through the IOS setup: We have a Subscription Group called Pro and within it, we have the Subscription Products Monthly and Yearly We have currently configured an introductory offer for Monthly: 1 week free trial Say we also want to configure a 50% discount for Monthly, so: New user gets a 1 week free trial Then 50% discount for 6 months Then regular price According to Apple docs, it sounds like this this isn’t possible:Although you can create an introductory offer for each subscription product in App Store Connect, each person is only eligible to redeem one introductory offer per subscription group.andApp Store Connect allows you to set an introductory offer for each subscription product in App Store Connect. You can have multiple offers in each subscription group. New and returning customers are only eligible to use one introductory offer per subscrip

bazookateam1996-a4366dNew Member

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Linking to multi Google Cloud Project

Hi guy.I used to have one project and successfully linked it to Google Cloud. Now, I have another project, and I want to link it to Google Cloud as well, but it's not possible because Google only allows linking to one project. In this case, what should I do? For each Android app I create in Firebase, there is a corresponding Google Cloud project created. Thank you.

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?

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.

Zachary ShakkedNew Member

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How to handle web subscriptions sync?

We are using Paddle for web subscriptions and aren’t sure how to link userIDs and sync status with RevenueCat. Is there a way we can post userIDs and subscription status to RevenueCat so that when the user logs in on iOS we know if they are subscribed or not. The reason I want to do it this way is because otherwise we’ll have to create a new layer on our backend that tracks subscription status for all users and we will need to check that instead of the RevenueCat SDK which kind of defeats the purpose. Otherwise, we could first check if they are RevenueCat subscribed then check our backend too - which would work I think. But isn’t there some web sdk for subscriptions?

michal-bachraty-4bab42New Member

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"You are currently subscribed to this" alert - two accounts get entitlement

My app uses custom user ids. When a user purchases a subscription, then logs out and back in with a different account, that doesn’t have the entitlement, a problem occurs. When pressing the purchase button, they get an alert that says “You are currently subscribed to this” and after pressing OK, the entitlement is also added to this account. Now I have two accounts with an entitlement, but only one subscription.I’m very new to this, but isn’t there any way to prevent this?Or at least a way to check if this app store account already has a subscription, so I can give the user the option to restore it, instead of purchasing?

edwnNew Member

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One subscription to different users

When I subscribe with a user, which is the same email as the cell phone account, then I logout and then I login with another user, this new user appears to me as having a subscription when it doesn't, it's like the subscription of the first user also happens to this new one.

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?

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

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?

gasHelper

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Notification of PLA violation from Apple

I received the following email from Apple this morning. Subject: Notification of Apple Developer Program License Agreement (PLA) violationWe are writing to inform you that your company is not in compliance with the Apple Developer Program License Agreement (PLA).Section 11.2 (Termination) states:(g) if You engage, or encourage others to engage, in any misleading, fraudulent, improper, unlawful or dishonest act relating to this Agreement, including, but not limited to, misrepresenting the nature of Your Application (e.g., hiding or trying to hide functionality from Apple’s review, falsifying consumer reviews for Your Application, engaging in payment fraud, etc.).Be aware that manipulating App Store chart rankings, user reviews or search index may result in the loss of your developer program membership.Please address this issue promptly. We carefully reviewed all our apps, metadata, etc and have not found anything in violation or non-compliant with the PLA. We are absolutely not engaged

shadi mahmoudNew Member

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none of the products registered in the revenueCat dashboard could be fetched from the play store

none of the products registered in the revenueCat dashboard could be fetched from the play store

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

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

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?

AlbertNew Member

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Free trial on Android is empty (Flutter)

Hey, i have configured android base plan with just 1 offer to be trial 7 days but purchase package does not have introductoryPrice information on app store purchases everything works. I have backward compatible base plan but looks like trial is not, why ? I created it last week, is it because of that? In this case how to fix it ? Thanks

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?

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