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Entitlement is active after a refund

Hey,I can see in my app (iOS) that users who become premium users (subscribers) and then claim for a refund, they still considered to have isActive true in their entitlement. To check that - When I start the app (in the appDelegate), I use the PurchasesDelegate to check what the current status of the user when he enters the app:if purchaserInfo.entitlements[Constants.entitlementID]?.isActive == true { // USER IS PREMIUM} else { // USER IS NOT PREMIUM }Hence, I assume that if a user asked for a refund he will no longer be entitled to be active, but I can see that users are still getting isActive true. What am I doing wrong? Is anyone else encountered that?Or, is there other if statement that I can do which is more accurate? Thanks!

Abey ShiferawNew Member

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how to buy consumable products again and again

hi, i was trying to set up a consumable products based on Non-Subscription Purchases doc recommendations from revenue cat https://docs.revenuecat.com/docs/non-subscriptions.but after calling purchaseProduct for a consumable product i can't seem to purchase this product again because it was bought as a non-consumable the flutter in_app_purchase package has two methods to buy product (buyConsumables or buyNonConsumables) does revenue cat have similar way or other to make sure a product can be bought again

Enrique CardonaNew Member

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[Flutter] Wrong prices on iOS App Store in Spain

Hi folks.I’m developing a iOS Flutter app that is available, among others, in USA and Spain.TL;DR: I’m having correct/incorrect prices on my Consumable purchases depending on the Region The long story: I have a paywall for my PRO subscription that it’s working well, showing the same prices I’m configuring in the App Store Connect UI for the different subscription options (depending on subscription duration). AFAIK this is true for all regions I’ve tested.But now I’m developing a new paywall with three consumable purchases that essentially represents bulk PRO license packages (25 PRO licenses, 50 PRO licenses and so on).The main issue here is that when I’m showing the new paywall using Spain region (the main one) the configured prices doesn’t corresponds to the ones configured in App Store Connect. More precisely, all prices are incremented by a nearly ~10% percent. The currency (EUR) looks good.But the same code & config on the iOS simulator (an “stock” iPhone 13 with iOS 15, I hav

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Family Sharing with Restore Purchase

Hi, I have not been able to get family sharing working even though I have enabled all family sharing options on the device and in the App Store. Currently what I have been trying1. Invite family member2. Share app to family member3. Wait several hours4. Ask them to restore purchase using the Purchases.restoreTransactions() from the react-native SDK The results always say ‘No purchases restored’ I noticed that in the Restore Behavior under Project Settings > General that my account is under Alias (Legacy) rather than Transfer Purchase. I am concerned with changing the Restore Behavior from Alias (Legacy) to Transfer Purchase since there is a label saying this is not reversible. Is this causing the issue? Do you have any idea how I can resolve this? Thank you

james-doc-journeyHelper

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How to get around "Google Service Account credentials JSON is invalid"?

I have been following the instructions here https://docs.revenuecat.com/docs/creating-play-service-credentials and downloaded the the .json file in step 2. I am attempting to “Enter the Credentials JSON in RevenueCat” in step 4, though I’m concerned I’m doing it wrong. The UI seems to expect a single line of text, and the .json that Google Cloud generates is quite large. If this is the proper way to use Revenue Cat, this is janky as all hell. Anyway, I have taken the .json contents into a plain text editor, joined all lines, and removed all spaces (as per recommendations in other community posts), but when I attempt to upload the .json, I see this error message: (Image reads: “The provided Google Service Account credentials JSON is invalid.”) This seems to be an immediate failure (many community posts seem to involve long wait times for credentials to become active or something). There is no help for figuring out if I’m adding the json contents incorrectly, or if so, what’s wrong f

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

Louise MetcalfNew Member

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How to set up app discount codes

Hi everyone, Is there a simple way that Revenue Cat can manage app discount codes? We’d like to share regular discount codes for specific groups to make the app free for some users. Thanks, Louise

BogdastotelNew Member

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Test redeem offer codes in sandbox environment

Hello, I’ve managed to invoke presentCodeRedemptionSheet() inside the react native app, and did successfully setup the subscription offer codes in the app store. However when we try to redeem the code, native modal says that the offer has already expired even though expiration date is in the future. Is it possible to test the subscription offer codes in the sandbox? thanks

Ilya UsorovHelper

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iOS Free trial + offer code?

hey folks,we’re facing a bit of a conundrum:On iOS, we offer a 7 day free trial as an introductory offer. However, for some users that come from channel partners we’ve created (iOS 14) offer codes that give users either a 2 week or 1 month free trial. For these offer codes, we’ve set "No, this code will replace the introductory offer”.A few times now, a user who was supposed to use the offer code, instead redeemed the introductory offer 7 day free trial. After they do this, we give them the offer code and when they redeem it, Apple adds the introductory offer 7 day free trial to the 1 month free trial and so they get ~37 day free trial.Is there any way for me to have it change from the 7 day trial to the 1 month free trial instead, instead of going to the 1 week + 1 month?Also, users report that after they redeem the offer code (after initially redeeming the introductory 7 day trial offer), in their Apple ID subscription settings, they see “plan automatically renews at $X.XX/month star

Walter HolohanDedicated Member

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How to create subscription discounts for new users in a React Native app?

Hi, We have just recently released a new version of our React Native app to the App Store that allows users to subscribe to a £15.99/month subscription. We have a big affiliate network which we want to tap into to drive sign ups. In order to do this we want to offer discounts to people who sign up using an affiliate discount code. From reading through your documentation on whats possible in Apple and Google we have come up with the following approach. Apple App Store:Create a new subscription group Create 4 new subscription products £15.99/month £15.99/month with Introductory offer of ~30% off for the first 4 months (i.e £10.99/month) £15.99/month with Introductory offer of ~20% off first month (i.e. £12.99/month) £99.99 annual subscription Google Play StoreSimilar to what we have in Apple i.e. creating multiple products that have introductory prices React Native App:A user will have the option to enter a discount code On submit of discount code we will make a API call to our BE tha

Chris1New Member

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Worldwide availability of RevenueCat (China, Russia, etc.)

I’m considering using RevenueCat for my iOS app for subscriptions.However, my customers are coming from all over the world - a lot from Asia.I’ve read on the forum that api.revenuecat.com isn’t reachable from China (and eventually other countries as well). Is this still the case? - If so, what’s the solution for it?Also, is there a list of areas where RevenueCat is not working/operating?

Philip DoneganNew Member

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Couldn't find purchase lists, trying to find single data...

Hello everyone, I am facing an issue with the flutter SDK that im not sure how long its been happening but I noticed because i needed to trigger an event based on successful subscription. This is working perfectly on IOS, however on Android I get the following message and cant do what I want. SDK is 3.4.5W/BillingHelper( 5733): Couldn't find purchase lists, trying to find single data. The subscription works, but billing helper is returning that and the confirmation never happens. Any ideas?

PaulBHelper

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Deleting a product does not work

I have two iOS products in my app.One I do not want to use any longer so I deleted it from app store connect.Next step is to delete it from the products in my app in revenuecat. So I click “Products”, then select the product from the list and on the bottom of the page I click the big red “Delete product” button.Then press “Confirm” on the “Are you sure?” warning.Result: Product still there….Tried this in Safari and Firefox.Any clues?I think this may also be the cause of the WARN: Could not find SKProduct for ( that I keep getting when I try to test it on my actual device. The products that I have in Revenuecat do not match the products that I have in the app store. I tried re-adding the product to the app store but apple won’t let me do that because I already used it previously. Edit: I just tried it again and then I noticed the brief popup on the top of the screen with the text: “There are transactions in the system using this product.” I’m not sure what this means yet but I’m going

Thomas AnderlHelper

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Understanding "Restore Purchase"

So I understand the basic idea of how the restore functionality works, but I dont see how this could become a problem in my application and thus wanted to ask if I am missing something here. My users can only sign in with their phone number and alle purchases are only possible after a login.Let’s say that a user changes phone, the user will get a new phone and sign in with the new phone but the same phone number - As the purchases are attached to the Play/Apple account and the purchases are also saved on their accounts within their app, they could switch phone and not lose any functionality. Is there any scenario missing here where I would need “Restore Purchases” ? Apple rejected by production app due this functionality being missing, but I dont see, why I would need this.

BartNew Member

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How do I add Maestro payment options to in-app purchases?

Hey boys and girls! I’m quite new to app development and just launched my first app on the app stores with the help of Revenuecat for offering in-app purchases. I’m located in the Netherlands and noticed that Maestro cards (debit cards) are not available for the in-app purchase, does anyone know why so and how I’m able to fix it? Thanks for taking the time to read this! Hope someone can help me.

AkashNew Member

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How do I link purchase made by the user without login in my backend?

The question is for an iOS app - My setup is that I am using my backend to give access to “Pro” features through the API and I am using Revenue cat to process the payment. Sign up comes after the purchase is made and it is optional to the user. I want to understand how I should give access from the backend to users who are making a purchase but do not sign up? This approach should also work when the user comes back and restores purchase after uninstalling the app.

tinaRevenueCat Staff

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Play Store Service Credential Delays

When setting up your Play Store service credentials, it can take up to 36hrs+ for your credentials to work properly with the Android Developer API. You will see "Invalid Play Store credentials" errors and be unable to make purchases with RevenueCat until this happens. Any changes to these credentials will also take up to 36hrs+ to fully propagate. If the Google Play Android Developer API has not been used in your project before or it is disabled, you can enable it by visiting APIs & Services in your Google Cloud Platform. Service Credentials Not Populating under API accessThis is a rare case, if your service credentials are not populating under Google Play Console > 'API access', be sure to check if the service credential email address is in the "IAM" tab in Google Cloud Console. To navigate to this page, go to Google Cloud Console > IAM & Admin.If you do not see your service credentials under this tab, select the "+ ADD" button at the top of the page and copy the email f

ChrisHNew Member

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Remove ads purchase best practices [flutter]

One of the purchase related scenarios for my app is removing ads that are normally displayed right after the app is installed.I was wondering what would be the best way of handling the case where:1) the user installs the app2) the user makes a purchase removing the ads (a non consumable)3) the app is uninstalled4) the user reinstalls the app on the same or a different device.At this stage of my project I do not want to maintain a backend server or use Firebase with a login mechanism etc, and instead I would very much like to rely on the RevenueCat alone. I have tested the scenario on Android and it appears that since it is recommended that the method that restores transactions should be triggered consciously - by tapping a button for example and not when the app is starting up, the only way I can think of to do this is to display a dialog when the app is started for the very first time and give the user opportunity to restore the purchases (if any were previously made) and once the pu

Aideen NasirisharghNew Member

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Stripe Integration: Totally lost!

Hello, We have a subscription-based, multi-platform product that’s available on Web, Android, and iOS.Last week we set up Google Play and Apple Store integration with RC for our product and it’s finally working. We just started doing Stripe integration for our Web users, and it seems to be a lot more complicated and confusing than we expected. We feel that Strip integration is a 3rd-class citizen of RC, since there are only one vague doc, and a 2 year old sample code and a lot of required manual work. Here are our thoughts and questions. 1) Any use of SDK for Stripe at all?!When we first evaluated RC, we thought the Purchases SDK of RC would give us a hand on all platforms. (See the first paragraph below) However, it seems like the Client Side SDK of RC should be completely discarded on Web/Stripe, as it cannot do basic tasks like getPurchaserInfo (Source) even when we pass the strip_xxx Public API Key and app_user_id to the setup() method of SDK. It throws cordova_not_available err

Aideen NasirisharghNew Member

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Inconsistent Free Trail Eligibility on Google Play Store

Greetings, It seems like the only “Free Trial” option for Subscriptions on Android (Google Play) that RC supports is “Eligibility Criteria: New Customer Acquisition” in Play Store’s offers. That’s the only backward-compatible offer that RC is accepting, per docs. This offer, on the Google Play side, is only limited to the new customers (either never had this, or never had any subscription(s)). Now, consider that a user gets this package and cancels the renewal. After a while, they come back and want to resubscribe to the same package.On the Google Side, the user is not eligible to the offer. So no 14 days trials. However, on the RC side, we are receiving the same “14 days trial” intro_offer in the getOfferings() for this user, as a brand new user.It is causing an inconsistency between what our app is displaying the user in the UI and what they end up buying, which can cause us legal problems down the road.How can we prevent this?

SenexNew Member

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Use with Xamarin/Maui

Hi, Looking at using RevenueCat but looking for any feedback on using with Xamarin Forms/Maui. I Dont see any real information on integration of this platform and was wondering if anyone has used in this configuration. Any tips on how to to implement or feedback would be appreciated. Alternately thinking about it doing in-app and utilizing the store portals directly but this would probbably become very combersome if there were any great membership requirements.

Andrey DimitrovNew Member

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Transactions fail with "billing issue"

Hello, I have RevenueCat integrated with one of my apps and I loved it so far, but recently I’ve noticed that some of my transactions fail with “billing issue” for example last week I’ve had 4 in a row free trial conversions to paid users fail with a billing issue which seems too odd to be coincidence 1 of the transactions first failed with billing issue then 24h later appeared as “converted from the free trial”The api version the app uses is: 3.11.1Users with billing issue are using IOS 14 and 15 and located in US and AustraliaSo are there some logs that I can check to see what was the reason for the failed transactions or can someone from RevenueCat check that for me? Thank you!

po_New Member

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Block Restores & RC Anonymous AppUserIds

Hello!We are planning to use the "block restore" configuration on Revenue Cat for our iOS application and wanted to make sure (1) it's the right option for us given our business logic and (2) if we use it, can/should we avoid RC anonymous IDs altogether since we require a user to have an account and thus internal UUID (app user id) in our application before subscribing? We want to have a single source of truth for identifying a user, and to avoid having lots of anonymous IDs and the network calls to RC API that would unnecessarily create them (if possible).1. Our application requires users to create an account in order to subscribe, and we want to prevent the sharing of a subscription linked to a single Apple ID across multiple user accounts / internal app_user_ids that live in our application database. This makes it seem like the "block restore" option is the way for us to go since that should prevent both (a) the sharing of an Apple ID’s subscription from User A to User B (where both

Nathan ZabaldoNew Member

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UpgradeInfo not working on Android with Flutter

I’m testing in Android emulator with Play Store access using a testing account so no actual money is being charged. I am able to purchase products and packages, but not able to test changing packages using the UpgradeInfo docs. What could the issue be with Play Store or is there some other configuration I need to make somewhere? When I select the package to change to I see the following, which all looks correct in my logs. The SKU is found and the Flutter purchases_flutter package is clearly showing everything good to go at this point. D/[Purchases] - DEBUG(25398): Vending Offerings from cacheD/[Purchases] - DEBUG(25398): Product change started: com.revenuecat.purchases.models.ProductDetails@1e0bf2c4 - offering: packages UpgradeInfo: UpgradeInfo(oldSku=package_3.99_monthly, prorationMode=1)D/[Purchases] - DEBUG(25398): Querying Purchase with package_3.99_monthly and type SUBSD/[Purchases] - DEBUG(25398): Checking if cache is stale AppInBackground falseD/[Purchases] - DEBUG(25398)

Floating islandNew Member

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Can I delete a lifetime purchase made in the Testflight/sandbox?

Hi there,Our app has options for subscriptions:monthly renewing subscriptions annual renewing subscriptions lifetime month_upgrade_lifetimeThe lifetime option is implemented as a non-consumable purchase in the App Store.The issue we’re having is that once a user has purchased a lifetime subscription in the sandbox, there seems to be no way to ignore that purchase (even to Deleting Account, user can still restore after deleting the account).So we have to treat sandbox lifetime purchases as invalid. But if I ignore sandbox purchases, this would also ignore non-sandbox purchases for the same entitlement. As lifetime purchase may have high priorityin Revenuecat SDK.If one user made a monthly subscription via AppStore and also made a lifetime purchase via TestFlight or made a lifetime purchase via TestFlight first and then made a month_upgrade_lifetime purchase via AppStore. restore or getPurchaseInfo methods will return the lifetime purchase recipient (Sandbox) first on TestFlight en

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