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philcMember

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Is data collected and stored even if no subscription is purchased?

I want to make a simple and reassuring statement about data/privacy in my app’s help screen and I’m wondering if data storage is the same regardless of whether a subscription is purchased or not. Is RevenueCat still collecting and storing data for a user who has not purchased a subscription?Thanks.

appstraderHelper

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Subscriptions valid for one device not 100 devices on one subscription ?

I have worked for businesses where all their employees use the same google play account to install apps, how can you setup a subscription so one subscription allows one device rather than pay once and use the same app on 100 devices ?Im sure this question must have been asked before so I’m hoping this can be done.Many thanks

Jeroen WolffNew Member

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lots of $RCAnonymousID's

Hi, if I understand the docs wel, we must do as soon as possible when the app starts do a Purchases.setup()And then when we have our own UID (after logging into our backend) we do a Purchases.logIn(our_ID)But when a user is logging out en back in again, another $RCAnonymousID is created and stored on the RC backend. That can add up and genereate a lot of unused $RCAnonymousID’s...or do I something wrong? logging;start the app for the first time.====> APP didMount(): after Purchases.setup(), getAppUserID: $RCAnonymousID:5cf2ccddfeb64208aca7e1c8a58ab9abhere we do in the app a login into our own backend and recieve our UID for this customer====> RC LOGIN: before Purchases.logIn(id), getAppUserID: $RCAnonymousID:5cf2ccddfeb64208aca7e1c8a58ab9ab====> RC LOGIN: after Purchases.logIn(id), getAppUserID: 615de0706b15db0ea9eb1555logged in customer goes to the paywall and purchase====> RC PAYWALL: before Purchases.getOfferings(), getAppUserID: 615de0706b15db0ea9eb1555====> RC P

klutzNew Member

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Moving paid app model to subscription model

I have been tasked with the above conversion for an existing iOS and Android paid app. Everything is set up in the Rev Cat, App Store and Google Play Store for one annual subscription with 1 week free. My first obstacle is my iOS app is in Objective C and I’m a stranger to Swift (which is used in the excellent walkthrough videos I have found as well as the demo app). I was wondering if any of you had had this issue and, if so, how you approached the problem?Did you bridge Swift view controllers to start up your app or work on translating into Obj C?Thanks in advance.

rivers cuomoHelper

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Cross-platform products

Do I create different products for Google Play Store and App Store? (for example, weezma_ANDROID and weezma_IOS). Or just one product for both platforms? (weezma).

ChrisKingWebDevNew Member

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PI-Hole Blocking all traffic

Hi team. Today I was trying to check my dashboard and all of the API calls were failing. I was also unable to load any info in the app. I was able to trace the problem to my pi hole blocking all of the requests. I’ve had the pi hole installed for a while, so this is a new development. Either they’ve added Revenue Cat to their block list, or the APIs changed to something that gets blocked by them. I’ve already added an exception, so I’m set, but I wanted to let the team know in case you wanted to investigate.

rivers cuomoHelper

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Why are purchase requests for my recently added items returning empty?

All of the products I created before today are found with this request:await Purchases.getProducts(["white"], type: PurchaseType.inapp);But the requests for the products I added today, say “blue”, are returning empty.I set them up the same way in the Google Play Console: I use the same identifiers in revenuecat.Is there sometimes a delay in availability for new products? There was no delay in the past when I added products.

Stephen HeapsHelper

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Invalid Product Identifiers

Hey,We are currently receiving an error fetching Offerings with the RevenueCat SDK on iOS (SDK Version - 3.13.0).From searching and reading the ‘Why are offerings or products empty?’ support document, we have confirmed we are seemingly matching all of the requirements:We have agreed to the latest App Store Paid agreement in App Store Connect. We have created a In-App Purchase Subscription in App Store Connect that is a 1-month auto-renewing subscription. This In-App Purchase Subscription status is marked as ‘Ready to Submit’ in App Store Connect. We have a matching Product created within RevenueCat, and have verified it’s identifier matches the Product ID in App Store Connect. Within RevenueCat, the Product is associated with the correct Entitlement, and the only Offering we have contains 1 Package with this Product. We are not using a StoreKit Configuration file. We have enabled the In-App Purchase capability in the Xcode project settings. We are testing on device.After requesting the

AkashNew Member

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"transferred_to" app id is anonymous in Transfer webhook event

Transfer event is triggered on the webhook on restoring purchase. But sometimes, in the “transferred_to” field, only the revenue cat initiated anonymous id is sent and the user id initiated by my app is missing. I have checked that the user id is being initiated before restore purchases is called to revenue cat sdk. Without the user id that the app has assigned, there is no way to transfer the purchase on my backend and the webhook fails to give the desired result. Example Event id - “997383F7-913F-4C2F-9987-91E78A514C05” in sandbox environment. Also, is there a way to hit call revenue cat API from the app to get the Transfer event details, as the webhook may be delayed and the backend needs to change the access level immediately.

Dan TamasMember

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Stripe billing error but finally charged - RC cancelled the subscription

Hello,We have a case where Stripe had a billing error, but after a few retries it managed to charge, however the RC customer panel shows contradictory information: the history reports as cancelled due to the billing error but the entitlements say it will renew.Stripe reports that the subscription will renew. So what is the truth here? 😅

CMRSNew Member

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Multiple subscription

For simplicity, suppose I'm running a subscription smoothie business only on the App Store. I'd like to set up IAP for weekly/monthly/yearly subscriptions for smoothies. In addition to the smoothies, users can mix-and-match subscriptions for premium upgrades, including fancy straws and glass mugs. With their smoothies some users want one, or the other, or both.Additionally, users can purchase consumable tokens for pretzels. Users would only subscribe to the premium upgrades of straws and mugs if they got a base subscription for smoothies. They also may start with a smoothies and upgrade later. It makes little sense for a subscription for a straw or a mug to renew differently from their smoothie subscription. Cancelling their smoothie subscription should cancel any straw & mug subscriptions.How do I structure my packages/entitlements/offerings/products to account for these while keeping it sane? The only way I see it, but seems too complex, is a single subscription group with prod

SophieNew Member

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Are charts not refreshing for anyone else?

The data for all of my charts says “Last Updated: 9 hours ago”. I’ve tried refreshing the page, different browser, logging out/back in, etc., but nothing helped. The RevenueCat status page isn’t reporting any issues with dashboards, so I’m not sure if this is happening to others as well?

AnselmNew Member

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React native App rejected from App Store because of no Purchase possible?

Hi there, My App is beeing rejected, because the tests by apple show that on an IPad Emulator the Offerings can’t be loaded… what can i do? I got through App Store Testing before without any problems and the same behaviour. has something changed? Thanks for any help? Cheers

Gokula KrishnaHelper

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Best way to confirm the payments?

Hi there, I have a question regarding the payment confirmation. I followed the QuickStart for flutter and I have implemented the IAP. I have 3 lifetime products to purchase coins and I have to verify with RevenueCat if my purchase was legit. What would be the best method? I am following the docs and implement the following logic:if (rcPurchaseSuccess) { RestAPI.addCoins();} I’m afraid if a malicious actor calls RestAPI.addCoins(); without any purchases or if something goes wrong with the app connection to my server. It will be problematic scenario. How do I solve that? Is webhooks a good method for confirmation? Or is there a better way? I’m a bit confused since the docs are not clear. Thanks

FlyABBNew Member

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iOS (Live) PurchaseSheet PayUpFront Introductory Offer with higher pricing not showing (all others work)

Dear all,I have come across an issue that I can’t seem to figure out. I have successfully implemented RevenueCat and subscriptions in my iOS app, including checking the eligibility for introductory offers. All works as expected.However, one of my subscriptions is an annual subscription for which I would like to add an introductory payUpFront offer in which the initial price is higher than the recurring price. This to retain and reward users for their ongoing subscription. For example: A one off payment for the first year of $29.99, then recurring at $19.99 per year until cancelled. I have set this up in App Store Connect without issues and the subscription is approved by Apple:Already during my sandbox testing (on device) I noticed that when I tried to purchase this subscription, the native purchase sheet never shows the upfront costs of $29.99 and only shows the recurring $19.99 per year.The issue is not related to its eligibility since I have another subscription alongside it in the

REPNew Member

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Promotional Entitlement Grant: is_sandbox set to false when created in a sandbox environment

Repro Steps:Create a RevenueCat account with a sandbox and non-sandbox environment Create an entitlement in each environment with the identifier of “Membership” in both Navigate to the interactive docs (or you can do this in your own code if you already have it set up) (https://docs.revenuecat.com/reference#basic) Enter your api key for your sandbox environment and pass any user id to create a subscriber https://docs.revenuecat.com/reference#subscribers Try to grant them a promotional grant for that user id, the entitlement identifier of “Membership” and duration of “yearly” https://docs.revenuecat.com/reference#grant-a-promotional-entitlement Returned subscription entitlement shows is_sandbox: false Returned subscription info (see is_sandbox: false). {"request_date":"2021-12-02T21:52:16Z","request_date_ms":1638481936210,"subscriber":{"entitlements":{"Membership":{"expires_date":"2022-12-02T21:52:15Z","grace_period_expires_date":null,"product_identifier":"rc_promo_Membership_yearly","

Carlo SacchettiHelper

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About "Restore function"

I have done various tests and I would have to ask some questions:1. Is it normal that after subscribing with a Device with an account, if I install the app on another Device that has the same account, I immediately enable the subscription without the need to restore? This way I never use restore.I have not done anything in particular so I think the default value is set which is "Transfer purchases".There is a way to better understand how it works and how you can set the various behaviors because from the doc I have not been able to understand this topic well.In my app there are two simple subscriptions (monthly and yearly) and I have no special needs (there is no login or anything else in the app) so I opted to have RevenueCat create the user's ID automatically.Thanks for your attention

IanNew Member

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Enabling users to sell tickets or their services

Hello, I’m working on an app that will have some subscription elements, but will also allow users to sell goods and services to other users. Would revenue cat be able to do this, or would I need another system for the person to person transactions? Thanks,Ian

Brian RemingtonNew Member

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Error with Product Identifiers - iOS

My app works with the subscription and RevenueCat. However I get an error with the following:2021-11-03 07:29:01.912 seed2021[68531:4997387] [Purchases] - WARN: 🍎‼️ Invalid Product Identifiers - ( 801, 901) Initially when I had configured RevenueCat, I had two additional products added for iOS for the inApp purchase, and the products added to RevenueCat. Over time I decided to remove these (801,901) from iOS and also from RevenueCat. However, I get this warning that appears RevnueCat still has these cached somewhere and I don’t know how to remove these to get rid of the error.

Marianna AlpatovaHelper

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[Unity] [iOS] GetOfferings has no errors, but return empty dictionary on call

Hello! I have an issue with fetching current offerings: callback object is always null2021-10-28 09:32:32.072780+0300 MagicKids[2441:2439627] json = {"offerings":{"all":{}}}However, on app launch (specifically 2 seconds BEFORE GetOfferings() call) I can see normal json with my product in logs (I’m not sure what function is calling this):2021-10-28 09:32:30.328012+0300 MagicKids[2441:2439627] json = {"products":[{"description":"Full access to our app for a 3 month","introPrice":{"periodNumberOfUnits":1,"periodUnit":"WEEK","priceString":"0,00 RUB","price":0,"period":"P1W","cycles":1},"price_string":"2 650,00 RUB","intro_price_period_unit":"WEEK","currency_code":"RUB","title":"3 Month Subscription","price":2650,"identifier":"com.MagicKids.Go.tier5","intro_price":0,"intro_price_period_number_of_units":1,"intro_price_period":"P1W","intro_price_string":"0,00 RUB","discounts":[],"intro_price_cycles":1}]}Also: I’ve checked API key I’ve checked product ID I’ve checked there are no any pending a

AshNew Member

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Offerings are empty in production but work fine in sandbox

Went through this list and followed all the rules. Everything works fine in debug and I am able to make sandbox purchases. But when it comes to production offerings are empty.Any idea why it’s happening or how can I debug the problem?

appstraderHelper

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Google Invalid Play Store Credentials - 503 error

I have given it a good 24 hours or more, I have not used revenuecat before or at least never got this far before and I really want this to start working rather than moving to another way of setting up subscriptions.My app will go through the motions and accept the subscription followed by the email to say I have scribed and shortly after its cancelled.This test purchase was cancelled because it was not acknowledged. You should ensure that all purchases are acknowledged so that they are not subject to refunds.Within Android studio every thing looks ok until the last statement where I have a credentials issue with the 503 errorCan anyone assist on this, I have seen posts where revenuecat can look into this issue and I see posts saying they have waited a week and it doesnt work, I want to get this issue resolved can anyone point me in the right direction ?Once I get over this issue I will simply reuse everything I have coded into another app so I really want to get this sorted. I have als

peterlovecatNew Member

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send money back to the user

dear community,is that possible to send money back to the user when he gets some achievement in the flutter app, if yes, could you plz let me know where can i find corresponding document? thank you in advance! peter

Natsuru ShiroseNew Member

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Why Restore is NOT rejected when before purchase?

This issue only occurs in the iOS production environment. (It does not occur in the sandbox)I have confirmed it on iOS 14 and 15. I’m using `Purchases.restoreTransactions()`. （cordova-plugin-purchases 2.3.1）[Log]```15:14:27.024184+0900>>[Purchases] - DEBUG: ℹ️ Force refreshing the receipt to get latest transactions from Apple.15:14:28.693200+0900>>[Purchases] - DEBUG: ℹ️ Loaded receipt from url file:///private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX/StoreKit/receipt15:14:28.694566+0900>>[Purchases] - INFO: ℹ️ Parsing receipt15:14:28.696696+0900>>[Purchases] - INFO: ℹ️ Receipt parsed successfully15:14:28.697186+0900>>[Purchases] - DEBUG: ℹ️ Found 0 unsynced attributes for App User ID: $RCAnonymousID:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx15:14:28.703572+0900>>[Purchases] - DEBUG: ℹ️ There are no requests currently running, starting request POST /receipts15:14:28.703855+0900>>[Purchases] - DEBUG: ℹ️ API request starte

VeraNew Member

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Purchase event date and time data source

Hi everyone, I’m wondering what is the data source of purchase event date and time? Is it user device time? Thanks ahead!

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