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Keith McSpurren
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Deleted sandbox customers screen errors

screencap of chrome errors when choosing ‘deleted’ userID Hi.  just trying to wipe out some sandbox users via the project management screen.  after deletion, they continue to show on my list and if you click a ‘deleted’ user...it simply reloads the screen.  error messages are included from chrome dev tools...

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Aideen Nasirishargh
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?

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DinoDeveloperMember
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How to get trialDuration of a product?

Hi, I am trying to dynamically display the trial duration of my annual product. I have found `trialDuration` on RC framework but I don’t know to use it? I am getting products like this:private var offering: Offering? = SubscriptionManager.shared.offerings?.currentand then need to access trial duration to display it via a text label. some thing like getting localizedPriceString.Any help would be great!

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fraNew Member
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activeSubscriptions vs entitlements.active

Hello, I have multiple subscription offers, but only need to see if a user is subscribed to at least one to give them access to premium features. Since I’ve started using RevenueCat years ago, I check `purchaserInfo.activeSubscriptions.isEmpty` but RevenueCat’s documentation says to use `purchaserInfo.entitlements.active.isEmpty`.  What’s the difference between the two methods?

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Andy
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UlyssesAlvesDedicated Member
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Doubt on how to configure the SDK after the user ID is known.

I don’t understand in practice what this part of the documentation really mean:https://docs.revenuecat.com/docs/restoring-purchases#google-play-on-androidGoogle Play on AndroidDue to platform limitations, purchases will be transferred as soon as you call configure if a user's purchases are already associated with another app user ID.This may cause unexpected transfers of purchases between app user IDs, especially for apps with optional logins or users with multiple devices. To prevent this behavior, you should wait to call configure until you have the appropriate app user ID for your customer. My app is developed in Flutter, and I couldn’t find a “configure” method on the RevenueCat SDK for Flutter. Is it referring to the “setup” method? If that’s so, then should I first login the user before calling setup/configure? Won’t RevenueCat throw an error when I try to login the user before calling the setup/configure method?In short, how can I set the user UID before I call the setup/configu

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Andy
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JockoNew Member
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Project vs App?

Since you can have multiple apps inside one project, I’m wondering what the structure should look like?If I have two different apps, one game “Fighter”, and another unrelated app “MySocial”.Do I make these under the same project, or do I put them in seperate projects? Is the multiple-app thing meant for iOS & Android version of the same app?

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Andy
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JockoNew Member
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One-time purchase goes through, grants entitlements, BUT after restart, all entitlements are gone and user is seen as free user.

This only happens to one of my apps, my first app persist entitlements until it’s uninstalled, however my new app that has an one-time-purchase, grants the entitlements after payment but when the app is restarted, the entitlements are all gone despite the payment going  through, I can re-purchase it too. Is it cause im using the same service account json for both apps? The code shouldnt be wrong cause im using the same on both apps and the first one works.What could be wrong? I DID notice that I forgot to put the new app in the service account permissions, which i thought would fix the problem, but I still have the same problem.

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Andy
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UlyssesAlvesDedicated Member
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What are the differences between login and setup methods?

For what I could understand from reading the docs, RevenueCat has two different methods by which we can identify the user.One method is by calling Purchases.login(). The other method is by calling Purchases.setup().What are the differences between these two methods of identifying the user?At first I thought I should call Purchases.setup() in my app initialization, and the login() method should be user right after I authenticate my user in my application, but it looks like I misundersdood it, because I am having some weird errors of unexpected transfers between anonymous and authenticated UIDs.The correct way then is to use both of these two methods but only after I know which UID to apply to the user? And the setup() method should be called only once, and after it has been called then I should only call the login method?

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NicoNew Member
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Subscription gone after uninstalling the app?

Hi,If Ive an auto-renewable subscription and uninstall the app. after reinstalling again the sheet to subscribe pops up. Is that correct? And if you assumed again click on subscribe that the money isnt debited?And when Im testing, the subscription of my app isnt displayed in the Apple ID under Subscription. Is this all correct and is this only due to testing?

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Armando JimenezMember
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Customer converting and renewing for $0, no promo code

I have a customer that converted from a trial for $0, and it’s renewing at $0, and just got a billing error but still the subscription will renew next month? what is going on here? 

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dazbojDedicated Member
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Will a user see all available prices in the iOS Subscription manager?

I have added multiple subscription prices to App Store Connect so I can switch between them using the RevenueCat current offering to do some A/B testing on prices.But this got me thinking...When a user views their subscriptions in their App Store account, they can make changes like cancel or upgrade/downgrade a subscription.Will this list offer the user all the available subscription prices? Can a user go to this page then select the lowest priced subscription to change to before a free trial expires then get it for the lower price?There doesn’t seem to be a way to tell ASC which subscriptions to show as not/available.

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JaceMember
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Increasing subscription prices

Hello,I have an app that is live on the App Store and the Google Play Store. We have a paywall where users can subscribe to access our app, either subscribing to a monthly plan or a semi-annual plan. We are now wanting to raise our prices, but want to keep the existing prices for those who are currently subscribed. I read online in the RevenueCat docs that you recommend creating new products as opposed to increasing prices of existing products. That makes sense because we want our revenue data on RC to be accurate, and our product names have the price in them. I know how to create new products, but my main concern is that on iOS, users will be able to change their subscription to the old "grandfathered" pricing through the Subscriptions section of the settings app. Will that be the case? Or is there a way to stop users from moving to a cheaper subscription within the same entitlement/subscription group. Thanks in advance for your help! I have attached a screenshot below to show what I

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KimMember
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Offerring Override

I see the option to override an offering on the customer page. I’m assuming this doesn’t change the offering the customer has with Apple/Google?  The user case I'm tried to cater for is the following: Existing subscriber completes a challenge in app. We reward them with a promotion on their subscription (e.g. 30 days free).From what I've read you can use iOS offer codes, but its messy. Wondering if anyway to setup a promo in RevCat then target specific user IDs by overriding their offering. Likely not but thought I would ask anyway. Thanks all 

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Max KleinNew Member
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Check if user has already bought something

I am currently building an app in Flutter using RevenueCat for the in-app-purchases.I now want to know for each user, if he has already made an in-app-purchase, since I have trial subscriptions activated. I need this information, because I want to adjust the UI in case a user registers with a new account that I haven't seen in RevenueCat so far. In this case, he won't be able to use the trial subscription again, since Google/Apple prevent this.I am using a custom ID for every user in my app and I use this ID for RevenueCat aswell, one could just create a new account and get a different user id. Ass far as I understand, in this case, this looks like a "new" user to RevenueCat which has no subscriptions. I think the solution would have to check the GooglePlay-Account for an already purchased subscriptionSo far I have not found a way to find out, if a user has already made an in-app-purchase. Any ideas on how to achieve this?Thanks.

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Roberto Ansuini
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KirkNew Member
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Anonymous User and App Store Account Deletion Rule

The App Store account deletion rule references “guest accounts” as also requiring deletion. Should I assume that “guest” would be analogous to RevenueCat’s “anonymous users” that are automatically generated in RevenueCat? And therefore that these anonymous accounts would be subject to the same deletion rule even though there is no personal user information linked to that id?If so, and I wanted to manually delete the account upon user request, what would be the best practice method of obtaining the anonymous user id so that they could be manually deleted? (I have no server for the app). Thank you!

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mby3New Member
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Can the anonymous RevenueCat ID be used to identify users across multiple app versions and devices?

I have implemented consumable in-app purchases with revenue cat and wanted to use the anonymous ID (“$RCAnonymousID:…) to keep track of the purchases a user has made. This seems to work fine until a user reinstalls the app or I upload a new version of the app. I call the restore function to get previous purchases but if I check the ID with the originalRevenueCatID method I get a different ID if I reinstall the appI tested this with TestFlight (iOs) and reinstalled the same version of the app after I purchased something but the purchase is gone and also the ID is something else. Is this because of TestFlight maybe and it should work if I publish the app? Or is this generally not possible?I basically wanted to not force the user to create an account and still be able to keep track of in-app purchases across multiple versions of the same app and of course re installationsHope this is the right place to ask. Would appreciate any kind of advice!

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Jacob Eiting
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Matt DuarteNew Member
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Multiple Subscriptions

Hi,I am making an app where users can purchase the same subscription multiple times. Is this possible?

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Luke BellamyNew Member
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iOS code redemption issues in flutter

Hi all,Im trying to get iOS Code Redemption working in flutter and having some issues.So as per the doc (not flutter specific, so following the API doc mixed with the swift example), and I go ahead and call: await Purchases.presentCodeRedemptionSheet();And then….. nothing happens? Is there anything else that needs to be done in the code after the sheet is dismissed to detect that a purchase has been made via the code redemption sheet? It’s really hard to test as this as it seems as though it cant be tested in a simulator or in debug mode on a real device - so I’m doing it ‘live’ and not getting any really good logging.The “Codes” are attached to an App Store IAP that I do have configured in revenuecat / has an entitlement….I’ve tried to re-initialise the purchaserinfo object & check for entitlements again and its still not triggering in the way it should if an entitlement is detected. Running purchases_flutter 3.1.0 on flutter 2.0.5Anyone have any ideas?  

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tomtrexNew Member
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RevenueCat Purchases.configure crashes my Xcode app after 2 minutes in TestFlight

My Xcode app has RevenueCat Purchases.configure(withAPIKey: "myApiKey") which runs fine in a device from Xcode. The same app crashes in TestFlight after 2 minutes even if left alone. I commented out Purchases.configure and it stopped crashing in TestFlight. I need help.

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vvill997New Member
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Cancel subscriptions from within react native app?

Hey guys. Apparently there has been an update to the Google Play Developer Program Policy where customers “must be able to easily cancel their subscription from within the app.”I was wondering what the best approach for this was. I’m under the impression that cancelling a subscription in-app isn't possible yet? If I’m wrong could someone point me in the right direction?I did come across this thread that says how redirect the user manage their subscription? Does any one know if this method would suffice?

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Fahd SalloumNew Member
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Giving users 1 day entitlements when paying for a consumable product just like the subscription's entitlements

Hello:We have subscriptions setup in our app, but we want to add a consumable product to give the user the same entitlement that he will get when subscription for 1 month, but this time it will be for 1 day only.is there a way to do this in Revenuecat, and is there a place in the documentation that we can follow to setup this kind of process?Our app uses Firebase as backend, and Revenuecat Firbase extension is added to the projectThank you

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Jens
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jln19Helper
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Fatal Issue - Offerings are no longer being returned from RevenueCat

Our iOS app stopped receiving responses from RevenueCat sometime in the past week. No code was changed on our end and our live app is no longer displaying any subscription options.This call is simply not returning successfully, nor is the failure block called. It doesn't matter what "offering" is - I’ve tried several of our offerings that are registered with RC and that have worked before. Any ideas what could have broken? This has completely broken in-app purchases for us. subscriptions?.fetchPackages(for: offering, onSuccess: { [weak self] (packages) in            let sortedPackages = packages.sorted(by: { $0.product.price.compare($1.product.price) == .orderedDescending })             ...             //this block is not called                                }, onFailure: { (error) in            //this block is not called         })The only thing I see logged in the console is “DEBUG: Vending Offerings from cache”I’ve verified that all of our In-App Purchases are still in the “Approv

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michalNew Member
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Why does RevenueCat allow for making purchases entirely client-side with public key?

Services like Stripe require a secret key and a server to make a purchase. If it was possible to do entirely client-side, wouldn’t Stripe do it be default? 

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tina
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JasperHelper
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Problems with PurchasesCoreSwift

My ionic cordova project can no longer run on IoS since last Thursday and I have no idea why this is happening.When testing the Xcode, the code no longer processes the PurchasesCoreSwift-Info.plist, with results that the entire Purchase folder remains empty and it fails as it can not import from the Purchases.h file. We have a podfile that installs the PurchasesHybridCommon as usual (it might have something to do with that, as we were upgrading the Cocoapods when the error occured, unfortunatelly setting it back to previous versions hasn’t solved the issue.) Is there anyone else who experiences this problem? Or can offer advice where to look?

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PeterNew Member
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No Webhook event when extending a Stripe trial

ContextI’m building a referrals feature that gives users 30 days free access to our subscription. If they’re currently on a trial, it’ll extend it by 30 days. For example, if you have a 7 day trial, it’ll extend to 37 days. ProblemWhen I extend someone’s trial, I don’t see a Revenue cat event for that subscription update. Stripe sends a customer.subscription.updated event, so everything’s fine there.My hunch is Revenuecat doesn’t support this edge case, which would be very unfortunate :/ Any recommended solutions or workarounds? Seems like a core use case to update users when anything on the subscription changes.

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Dan Pannasch
RevenueCat Staff

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