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MarcosNew Member
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What's the proper way to disable existing Subscriptions?

Hi, We run an A/B/C pricing experiment test during the last four months in which we created 6 different subscription options mixing 3 prices and 2 durations.We now have the results and want to reduce all the subscriptions options to the winner. It seems that what I have to do is to remove the subscription availability from the App Store BUT:- If I remove the subscriptions for selling, all the users will not automatically renew at the end of the period => We'll lose existing subscribers revenue.  - If I do not remove the sub availability, anyone can buy the new subscription and change to the old one via App Store Settings.  Is there any solution to leave existing subscribers forever in their current subscription AND do not let anyone new buy the old subscriptions? 

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tina
RevenueCat Staff
2 years ago
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DmitriNew Member
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Integrating with Firebase A/B experiments

Hi everyone, I recently started a premium subscription for my app on Google Play Store.I started using RevenueCat to handle purchases, but I struggle to integrate it into my A/B tests that I run via Firebase Remote Config. Here is the summary of the setup. The  users are presented with two choices of a subscription screen (which is recorded as a Firebase event). When a user completes a purchase, the app gets notified correctly and fires another Firebase event (along with enabling premium content for the user).So this part works fine and I can analyze the relative performance. The problem is with the cancellations. Since a user can cancel the subscription and never open the app again, I have no way of processing them reliably in my app code. So I need a different way of receiving these events from RevenueCat and into Firebase. I did not find any documentation on that. So far, I manually copy cancellations from RC console into the spreadsheet, but this is time consuming and unreliable. I

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ryan
RevenueCat Staff
2 years ago
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UgurHelper
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Apple rejection

Hello;I have recently uploaded my app to Apple store but was rejected. The message is;“Specifically, on our iPad Air, the "Abonelik Satin Al" tab launched to an error message.”But this is my second app including inapp purchase and first one was approved without a problem. Also the rejected app was successful when I tested it on a real device with my sandbox account prior to the submission. They also sent these photos; What should I do?

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tina
RevenueCat Staff
2 years ago
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DEEHelper
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Understanding basics

I will really appreciate what needs doing under following circumstances:Scenario 1:  I setup purchases with a userID I get from Firebase Auth after login in using firebase. Let’s say it is ‘UFID’. I am logged in with my app using ‘UFID’. My appstore ID is ‘ApsID’. I do my in app purchase on my iPhone and everything is hunky dory!** Now I lost my iPhone **Question1:  Is my purchase attached to my ‘UFID’ or my ‘ApsID’?  - For example can I login in my app on another iPhone with my UFID and restore purchases if      1 - the ApsID is different?      2 - the ApsID is the same? Question 2: Can same subscription run on Android & iPhone without any separate backend or the person needs to buy separate subscriptions for each platform?Thanks

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tina
RevenueCat Staff
2 years ago
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Country MusicNew Member
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Android Flutter Credentials Issue

Hi, appreciate any suggestions on how to fix this Flutter credentials issue for Android in Google Play Store: There was a credentials issue. Check the underlying error for more details.I/flutter ( 4040): PlatformException(11, There was a credentials issue. Check the underlying error for more details., {code: 11, message: There was a credentials issue. Check the underlying error for more details., readableErrorCode: InvalidCredentialsError, readable_error_code: InvalidCredentialsError, underlyingErrorMessage: Invalid Play Store credentials., userCancelled: false}, null)

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2 years ago
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polyGeekNew Member
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Sandbox user showing purchases from prior RevenueCat with product that's not added to RC products

Like the title suggests, I’m testing a new subscription, and sandbox user showing purchases from prior RevenueCat in 2018 with product that's not added to RC products. Is this normal? How do I decouple that? Anyone has run into the same thing or has a clue? Thanks ahead! 

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jazmine
RevenueCat Staff
2 years ago
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RobinNew Member
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How to set myself as a free account forever ?

Hey guys, My question might be dumb, but I would like to add my main account (personal address email) as a free forever entitlement, how can I do that ? Yes I could pay a subscription directly, but I would not recover all the money since the App Store/Play Store will take 15-30% for every transaction.

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sundeep
RevenueCat Staff
2 years ago
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Tsuruoka HidekiHelper
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Why is difference Google Play Console setting price and WebHooks's `price_in_purchased_currency`!?

I selected purchase price ￥550/JPY in Google Play Console, but RevenueCat Webhooks return ￥600/JPY as `price_in_purchased_currency`, I expected ￥550/JPY.Why does the issue occur? Please tell me RevenueCat console setting if exists.it's too serious, since Apple/Goolge requires difference price in same product.Thank you. 

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2 years ago
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Andres DuarteNew Member
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For a Platform offer with two type of users and Apps, how many RevenueCat account do I need?

We are launching a platform with two types of users PRO and NORMAL.  The WebSite serves both the PRO and the NORMAL user, but for the apps we would like to have one App for NORMAL user and one App for PROQuestionsHow many revenuCat accounts do I need? Do I need to service accounts in the google Play platform? Thanks

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sundeep
RevenueCat Staff
2 years ago
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FeatherwebsNew Member
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Subscription product updates not reflecting in revenuecat.

Due to client requirement, I have to change the subscription price of a product and introduce introductory offer to the  subscription product. I changed subscription product’s price and added introductory price in google play console and apple developer console as well. But revenue-cat is not propagating the changes when I fetched offer.  I am doing this in flutter. 

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2 years ago
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Tsuruoka HidekiHelper
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Webhooks document shows `id` but return `app_id` in fact

Here is `Common Fields`.https://docs.revenuecat.com/docs/webhooks#common-fieldsshows below.id: Unique identifier of the event.But, Webhooks's request body returns `app_id` instead of `id`.`id` is wrong and `app_id` is correct, right?Thanks.

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2 years ago
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gasHelper
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Why was a subscription charged 3 days later?

Hi, I’ve observed some strange behaviour.A customer supposedly started a subscription on October 15 (3 days ago), and today they were charged for it. Since there’s no free trial period, what explains this 3-day float between subscription and payment?I dug into the user’s timeline in Mixpanel, and here’s what I found:Oct 15: signs up and attempts purchase 3 times, and cancelled each time by the user Oct 18: user opens app and restores purchase (note: MP has no record of purchase events for this user) Oct 18: RC reports new revenue for subscription started on Oct 15 (my question: why did this revenue take 3 days?)Some possible explanations I can think of:Maybe the customer started a subscription from the App Store subscription page on Oct 15 and didn’t open the app until Oct 18, which is when RC was able to detect the purchase. Maybe there’s a reporting/customer history bug in RC? Maybe Apple has some arcane/obscure deferred payment plan that I’m not familiar with.Does anyone know what c

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jazmine
RevenueCat Staff
2 years ago
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DEEHelper
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Wrong currency showing up in debug console

{20 Persons: Offering{identifier: 20 Persons, serverDescription: Unlock records of up to 20 people, availablePackages: [Package{identifier: $rc_annual, packageType: PackageType.annual, product: Product{identifier: 20_Annual, description: Up to 20 people in a team can update records., title: For 20 people (Paid Annually), price: 11.489999771118164, priceString: $11.49, currencyCode: USD, introductoryPrice: null}, offeringIdentifier: 20 Persons}], lifetime: null, annual: Package{identifier: $rc_annual, packageType: PackageType.annual, product: Product{identifier: 20_Annual, description: Up to 20 people in a team can update records., title: For 20 people (Paid Annually), price: 11.489999771118164, priceString: $11.49, currencyCode: USD, introductoryPrice: null}, offeringIdentifier: 20 Persons}, sixMonth: null, threeMonth: null, twoMonth: null, monthly: null, weekly: null}, 50 Annual: Offering{identifier: 50 Annual, serverDescription: Unlock records of up to 50 people,…… I have the above c

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jazmine
RevenueCat Staff
2 years ago
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Lisa ChirgwinNew Member
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Cancelled subscriptions

We have 62 subscriptions showing total revenue, but around 10 say they have cancelled the subscription. In IOS and Google Play it is not showing the same amount of revenue being made. I do not understand how this can be?? I am not experienced in Apps, this is my 1st app that we commissioned to have built 

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tina
RevenueCat Staff
2 years ago
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DimaNew Member
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Apple Search Ads ad group and campaign data outside of Charts view

Hello,Is it possible to get Apple Search Ads campaign and ad group name/id data other than in Charts view? I see that in Charts view I can segment by both ad group name and campaign name. But the same data is not available in Customers view and I also don't see it in "Exports". If you don't provide this data directly due to some reason please let me know which of integrations/webhooks will.

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2 years ago
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Andres DuarteNew Member
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Can I direct users from Apple and Android Stores to subscribe in Web/Stripe?

I understood that in the past you can't direct customers to your website in order to get them subscribe, using Stripe for example, instead of having them use the Apple and Android Store and their astronomically high fees.But resent lawsuits let me to believe that in certain cases is alright to direct App clients to Stripe to get their subscription.In what cases is it alright to direct clients to Stripe? How will we manage that change in RevenueCat, do they have to cancel their subscription in the IOs App store and them create a new one in Stripe?  In Android I understand that we can send a cancel request to Android on behalf the user and then proceed to create the Stripe subscription?Thanks

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Jacob Eiting
RevenueCat Staff
2 years ago
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Andres DuarteNew Member
posted in General Questions

How to manage Enterprise level accounts with Stripe and RevenueCat?

In the available subscriptions we have, we have enterprise level subscription options, where a Company can subscribe currently using Stripe and then all employees can access the Website or App and the price is define case by case. Questions: Do I need to include those enterprise level subscriptions in ReveneCat?  Will the revenue that comes from those stand alone subscription type count toward RevenueCat fee?  How to treat someone that is upgrading their subscription to an Enterprise level from an individual one (that is offer in Android, IOS, Stripe and synch using RevenueCat)? How to treat someone that is downgrading from an Enterprise level to an individual type of account?Thanks

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2 years ago
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Andres DuarteNew Member
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Is my App a Reader App?

I understand that in IOs and Android if your App is consider a reader App you can direct user outside the App store to get a subscription?Do this reader classification exists? What characteristics do reader Apps have to have? Taking into account the terms from the Apple and Android store, can I take this users from an 'Reader App' and direct them to a Stripe base payment? Thank you, 

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2 years ago
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UgurHelper
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Description and title in Offerings are empty

Hi,When I first used the code it was OK, but suddenly the offering stopped to bring description and title information. I am using Flutter and iOS. On the revenuecat page I can see the description, it only does not fetch it to my app. The same result in iOS 12 and 15, on real device and simulator. I can get the identifier, price, priceString, currencyCode but description, and title are empty.

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ryan
RevenueCat Staff
2 years ago
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dan000New Member
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Revenue is $0 for test transaction

Hi everyone,I’m doing my first test purchases with my app in the sandbox, and I have noticed something unusual: In the Overview page with “viewing sandbox data” turned on, the Revenue box contains the correct value, but the Revenue for the individual transaction is $0.Is that normal?Also, when I click on an individual transaction, its “Total Spent” is $0.Is that also normal?I deleted the customer and did a single purchase, and then I took some screenshots to show what I mean. Please see below.The event id in question is c1cf0445-21fa-46fb-8407-719f199177cbThanks!  ================================================================ ================================================================ 

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2 years ago
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Geoffrey KimaniNew Member
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Php google and apple sdks

I want to connect a user on the web application verison of my application to the google play or apple app store accounts so that to check if they are subscribed so that i dont ask the customer to subscribe again. Subscriptions made on ios and those made on web application are taken to mean the user has subscribed and are both valid. Do i need to login the user in my web application first say using Auth0 or how does revenue cat connect the mobile and the web applications?  

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cody
RevenueCat Staff
2 years ago
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JasonGNew Member
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What is the best way to deal with multiple aliased users after moving away from legacy restore behavior?

Hi, we use a combination of the Rest API and Xamarin Forms wrapper around the RevenueCat SDK to integrate with RevenueCat. When we first went live our account was still set to the Legacy restore behavior. This has created issues for us because users who share phones and or have multiple accounts have been aliased together. We would like to fix all multiple aliased user in RevenueCat so we have two questions if you could help please:How can we find all users in RevenueCat where multiple users/user ids have been aliased together? How can we remove the additional user id aliases and create distinct customers with those user ids? (Preferably without losing history)

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2 years ago
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James NHelper
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Creating purchase with same purchase token not creating alias

I'm experiencing an issue with automatic aliasing for user ids.  I have migrated some user purchases from Stripe and Android but in my upload script I used a capitalised UUID instead of lower case (which is what my mobile app uses).  I didnt release RevenueCat uses case sensitive user ids.When I try to submit the purchase again with lower case UUID using the same purchase token, a new customer is created (as expected) and the purchase is transferred to the new customer (not expected).  I thought based on your documentation these two user ids would be aliased and they would share the purchase, but it seems they aren't.  I've made sure to add the "is_restore": "true" flag when uploading via your /receipt REST endpoint. Can you advise why this isnt working as expected and what I can do to fix?

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2 years ago
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ejgNew Member
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How does Promotional Access work when there is a paid subscription active.

If I grant promotional access to an active customer how does that work with their active subscription? Will it be applied straight away or once the subscription is expired.e.g. If I grant 6 months promotional accesss to the users membership, and their subscription expires a year later, will the 6 months be added after the membership has finished (18 months) or will it be running at the same time as the subscription (effectively cancelling it out). Ideally I would like a way to ‘add; 6 months free to someones membership Thanks in advance!

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tina
RevenueCat Staff
2 years ago
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TristanHelper
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Free Trials not showing in Production

I’ve just launched an app into production and it’s not showing Free Trials correctly. I was under the understanding that this could be an issue in the Sandbox environment, but shouldn’t be an issue in production – however that appears to not be the case.When users do click on ‘buy’ they are shown the free trial text in the system dialog, but it's a little late by then.The Free Trial offers *are* showing when using the StoreKit config, so everything appears to be wired up correctly on the application side.Any tips?

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2 years ago

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