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Rob BrooksNew Member

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How to handle multiple accounts on one device with a common Play Store sign in?

It goes something like this:1 - Sign into RC with appID12 - Purchase subscription.3 - Sign out and back in again using appID24 - RC says no subscription active for appID2 and so we present offerings.5 - Purchase fails because (presumably) Play Store thinks we already have an active sub because appID1 bought one using the common PlayStore sign in.I’d like to prohibit sub sharing across different accounts.In order for appID2 to be able to purchase a subscription, another Play Store account needs to be used.What’s the general best practice for dealing with this scenario?Many thanks.

1 month ago

Daniel PetrovalievNew Member

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Which api key should i use for observer mode on server side?

I’m now transferring my subscriptions to RevenueCat using Observer Mode on the server side and found out that for iOS users I should use the API key for ios and the opposite for Android.Docs says that I shouldn’t use a private API key for my case.Is there any universal API key?

1 month ago

JackWNew Member

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How should i use my staging app with revenue cat (bundle id mismatch)

Hey I have 2 builds of my app (different bundle id’s), production and staging. In appstore connect, I only have the production app, so ive made my IAP’s there and when i use revenuecat with the bundle id set to production, it works with the production build app, all good!However, when I want to develop on staging, with the staging app, i use the staging instance of revenue cat (different project with the other bundle id)...but this one cant pull data from appstoreconnect...because the bundle id’s are different.How am i meant to pull IAP’s into my staging app? can i use my production app IAP’s in appstore connect with my staging app? do i need to make a staging app in appstore connect with its own IAP’s? what are the implications of this if so?Thanks for some help on how to handle this setup!

1 month ago

iway1New Member

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Missed Webhooks for Consumables?

If my app fails to receive a `NON_RENEWABLE_PURCHASE` webhook for a consumable, is the event completely lost?If so that would mean the purchase is completely lost, is there any recourse to deal with those situations, or is the idea that I should just never miss one of these events?

1 month ago

Chad MohlerHelper

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"Receipt not valid" error when using local StoreKit testing in Xcode with a Mac Catalyst app

At WWDC 2020, Apple introduced the ability to do local StoreKit testing in Xcode (that is, testing without connecting to App Store servers and without using sandbox accounts). I am interested in an answer to the question of whether RevenueCat supports local StoreKit testing in Xcode for a RevenueCat-enabled Mac Catalyst app. As you’ll see below, I’ve been getting a “receipt not valid” error when I attempt that kind of testing for a RevenueCat-enabled Mac Catalyst app.Apple's documentation on StoreKit testing in Xcode indicates that local StoreKit testing does work for Mac apps (on a Mac running Xcode 12 or later, and macOS 11 or later). And in its own documentation, RevenueCat gives instructions for setting up local StoreKit testing in Xcode. What's not clear is whether StoreKit testing in Xcode works with the combination of RevenueCat and Mac Catalyst apps.I followed RevenueCat's instructions (just noted in the last paragraph) for setting up local StoreKit testing in Xcode (important

1 month ago

Matthias SchmidNew Member

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Huawei In-App Purchases

I was thinking about uploading my React-Native Android App to Huawei AppGallery.I use IAP using RevenueCart with iOS and Google and was wondering, whether Huawei support is already available / planned / not possible.Thanks in advance!

1 month ago

RyanJohnsonNCNew Member

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Difference in Revenue Reporting

We are seeing a discrepancy between the Revenue numbers that the individual App Store/Google Play stores are reporting and what RC is reporting. The difference is small, only about 2-3%. Could someone give me some insight into why that might be?Is there a timing difference? Is one recognizing discounts and another isn't?

1 month ago

shadi mahmoudNew Member

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

1 month ago

rafiNew Member

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ffnextNew Member

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How to send Webhook events from postman?

I successfully managed to integrate RevenueCat with the Firebase extension, and working properly the events are sent to Firebase. But it’s hard to test some event types so I would like to send events from postman through the Webhook url:{"code":1,"message":"Incoming RevenueCat webhook could not be authenticated. Please check that the shared secret is set up correctly."}I have the shared secret added to header: Authorization: Bearer shared_secret_here (Shared secret is from the google cloud which is connected our app from Firebase)And added the webhook url the same as the Firebase integration webhook.Here is the Firestore rules: The firebase functions integrations are working properly, but I cannot make the same work with webhook, what am I missing? (not even test events)

1 month ago

devTNTNew Member

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restorePurchase vs syncPurchases

The difference I know so far is that restorePurchases can be called multiple times but only through user action while syncPurchases should be called programmatically only once every app version.Is there any other differences or they are fundamentally different in what they do?

1 month ago

devTNTNew Member

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How to know action triggers the addCustomerInfoUpdateListener

This method will fire whenever the SDK receives an updated CustomerInfo object from calls to getCustomerInfo(), purchase(package:), purchase(product:), or restorePurchases(). Is there a way to tell what causes the method passed to addCustomerInfoUpdateListener to be called? It will be nice to be able to tell the difference between a purchase and restore when it fires.

1 month ago

Uchenna OkaforNew Member

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iOS & Android - In app purchase discount codes

I want to setup discount codes for one-time in app purchases.I’ve seen loads of documentation on discounts for subscriptions not none for one-time purchases. I want to be able to give out codes that will allow people to use my product for free and discount codes that will give people a discount. What’s the best way to go about doing this for iOS and Android?

1 month ago

Uchenna OkaforNew Member

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How do I validate purchases on the backend?

So I am able to use RC to complete purchases of a product.Here’s what happens once a user has purchased a product. → I grab their Revenue Cat ID, and extract their latest transactionIdentifier→ An API request is made with this info to our backend server to process their order. Here is a code snippet of how I am using the React-Native SDK to get their transaction Id. On the backend I want to verify their Revenue Cat ID has indeed made the purchase based on the provided transactionIdentifier. What’s the best way to do this?

1 month ago

Rodro MNew Member

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How do I know if purchase is pending in flutter?

How do I know if purchase is pending in flutter? Please give me the code where I can do something like this - if(purchase.isPending) {doSomething();} else{doSomething();}

1 month ago

GO TO THE MOON LIMITEDNew Member

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transferring app to another google play store and app store account

transferring app to another google play store and app store account with revenue cat without any income loss.

1 month ago

gasHelper

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Why are all my free trials resulting in BILLING_ERROR?

Something strange has been happening over this last week. Each user who starts a free trial has it automatically cancelled due to a billing error. Event data reported by RC contains "cancel_reason": "BILLING_ERROR".The app currently looks for billing issues (via billingIssueDetectedAt in RCEntitlementInfo) and guides the user to update their App Store billing. Beyond this, to prevent revenue loss, I’ve switched to a discounted offering without a free trial while I figure out what’s going on.For context, it’s an iOS app using Purchases v3.11.1 (although this is probably not an SDK issue).Any ideas as to what’s happening here?

1 month ago

Andy StefaniNew Member

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CloudKit RecordName as RevenueCat User ID

Hey All, instead of having RevenueCat create an anonymous user ID for every person that starts a subscription, I want to use the CloudKit recordName for the RevCat user ID so that I can match up the user. Currently, I have the RevCat implementation happening right when the app launches in the init {}. How should I think about fetching the CloudKit recordName before RevCat Purchases.configure(withAPIKey: “”, appUserID: “”) is called? Thanks for any help.

1 month ago

DubsNew Member

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AppStore Rejection - Subscribe button unresponsive

So we’ve been dealing with this issue being sent to us by the reviewer. We continue to find that your in-app purchase products exhibited one or more bugs when reviewed on iPad running iOS 15.7 on Wi-Fi. Specifically, the Subscribe button was unresponsive when tapped and we were unable to verify the purchasing process for your in app purchase items. Next Steps When validating receipts on your server, your server needs to be able to handle a production-signed app getting its receipts from Apple’s test environment. The recommended approach is for your production server to always validate receipts against the production App Store first. If validation fails with the error code "Sandbox receipt used in production," you should validate against the test environment instead. This is our first time releasing to app store. Should we ask the reviewer his/her appleID and add it as one of Sandbox testers?We appreciate all of your feedbacks.

1 month ago

kevincarbonNew Member

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Best way to introduce a cross platform offer code affiliate program?

We are playing with the idea of introducing an affiliate program that revolves around using offer codes to track purchases. Very much in the same way that you see podcasts doing it by telling their listeners to enter code “PODCAST” to get 10% off, which in turn allows the company to track sales and measure campaign performance. I know that iOS and Android both have offer codes, but I think this type of thing would require a more custom solution. Has anyone done this before? I know we could easily build our own system that generates codes, and let users enter a code in the app, which we verify, then display alternate pricing and tag the user with the offer code. But then we have to figure out the best way to track sales, retention, life time value, refunds, etc. to determine how to pay affiliates. Would we be able to utilize any of the integrations for this purpose? Has anyone done this in combination with a promotional service like https://www.talon.one/?Any insight here would be appre

1 month ago

Talli BabyNew Member

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Change Authorization Header Name for Webhook Integration

We’re using AWS and our API is behind an API Gateway. AWS API Gateway provides API key authentication via the `x-api-key` header. Is there a way to customize the header RevenueCat uses when making webhook calls so that RevenueCat can integrate with APIs in AWS? Thanks a lot!!!Patrick

1 month ago

berkNew Member

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Experiment subscription vs. consumable based paywalls

I’d like to test if my app works better with subscription based or consumable based model.In subscription-based model, users will be presented a Paywall Screen to subscribe weekly to be a “premium” user, so they can play unlimited games.In consumable-based model, users will be presented a Paywall Screen to purchase X number of games. When they play X number of games, they will be presented another Paywall to top-up.Is RevenueCat Experiments suitable for this use case? Couple of points I’m curious are: Does Experiment Results work as expected with different monetisation models? Especially LTV is the concern point. With the nature of the Experiment, I need to show “Remaining Games”, “How To Get Refund”, “Current Subscription” etc. information in different screens. This means I need to know the bucketing value of the user. Does RevenueCat Experiments provide this? (I guess I can check current offering in different screens to get the experiment bucketing value and show correct UX)Thank yo

1 month ago

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