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luckspDedicated Member
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Is there a way to change how fast a Sandbox purchase becomes inactive?

I would like to test the full flow, without waiting, up to an hour?, for the sandbox purchase to be reset. Is there a way to change how quickly this works? Even manually cancelling the subscription in the App Store sandbox user settings doesn’t change the expiration date.

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wes_clark
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Live Daily Sales Report

Hi, I have a feature request which is going to help I think most of the developers who uses RC. I want to see my daily sales whenever I want like, There must be box on the main page which will show, for example: Today Total new subs: 122 Total renewed sub: 213 We are able to see new subs in chart of Active Subscriptions Movement, but it is not live. It doesn’t show the updated units at that moment and also it doesn’t show renewed ones. The chart also mentions the data as (incomplete). To sum up, I wonder when we can have a feature like this, or do we already have it?

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Ryan Glanz
RevenueCat Staff
Ryan GlanzRevenueCat Staff
posted in Featured Articles
Enabling Team Subscriptions with RevenueCat

💫 Overview It’s common for developers to offer subscriptions that unlock entitlements for more than one user at a time. This is usually seen in B2B business models where one person (an administrator) can purchase multiple licenses for a product and then distribute those licenses to workers within their company. While the app stores don’t support this behavior out of the box, this article explores how developers can implement such a subscription model with RevenueCat. 📖 Definitions One-to-Many Subscription: A subscription purchased by one user that unlocks entitlements for one or more distinct users. Managing User: The user who purchases and manages a one-to-many subscription. Receiving User: A user who receives an entitlement from a one-to-many subscription. 🔐 Prerequisites You have non-anonymous user IDs for all users involved in a one-to-many subscription (i.e., the managing and receiving users). You are using RevenueCat as the source of truth for entitlements in your apps. You ha

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cf4ed4New Member
posted in Tips & Discussion
Experiments should have the concept of "placement"

Hello, I feel like it is hard to have clean data of our experiments with revenueCat. The main reasons being: Almost every new experiment implies an app update which the user may not have done We have a paywall where the user can change his subscription that we do not want to include in the A/B test As a result we always have “other” products in our experiment results and globally I am not at ease with the data returned.Is there something we are doing wrong ? It would be great to have the concept of “placement” so that we can do an A/B Test only in certain part of the app and also compare the revenues from differents places in the app. Best regards,

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novelapproachesNew Member
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What are best practises for handling events?

I’ve integrated RevenueCat (Capacitor) and enabled the Firebase extension. Test purchases are coming through and the Firebase Extension seems to be working. It saves information in two collections and events in EventArc, though I’m not so familiar with that. I understand that for consumable non-renewable products my own database (FireStore) is the single source of truth. I guess i can figure out how to read that data and do “something” with it, but i was wondering what best practices were. Surely this is a common situation, are there any available solutions / libraries that handle the standard events? In my case initially it would be

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Haley PaceRevenueCat Staff
posted in Tips & Discussion
Offline App Guidance

If you plan to have an app that is offline, then there is some information on RevenueCat’s end that you should be aware of. A network connection is required to make a purchase and communicate with RevenueCat, but the subscription status is cached on the device as long as needed via CustomerInfo. This way you can still check for a user’s entitlements so they can continue to access your app’s content. When offline, the current state of the subscription will be preserved until it can be re-synced with RevenueCat (e.g. if they're subscribed, they'll remain subscribed). The app user id and CustomerInfo are cached, and CustomerInfo will be returned while offline forever if the user never goes online, unless something happens that invalidates the cache. The offerings do not persist between app launches, so you will need to cache this data and display them yourself when the app is offline. See our caching docs here for more information. If you do not want users to have access to their subscrip

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JuliaNew Member
posted in Tips & Discussion
About the worst support ever!

We’re on a pro plan and because of RevenueCat’s unstable system we’re unable to track some of the events and I reached their support 2 times but still no response for days. We’re going to replace you guys ASAP. No thanks for your bad services

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sharif
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jacklinNew Member
asked in Tips & Discussion
Are delayed webhook notification sent immediately after calling REST API?

We are testing sync mechanism of REST API (PLAY_STORE, SANDBOX). We found that if a renewal webhook is not sent, and when we GET https://api.revenuecat.com/v1/subscribers/{ app_user_id} , the same renewal webhook notificaiton is sent immediately. I can’t find any information about whether delayed webhooks would be sent after calling REST API. Is this coincidence or a normal behavior of RevenueCat?

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mamadou-dia-67fa4aNew Member
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Offering not appearing on Android

I am using RevenueCat for my subscriptions, but on Android, the offerings only include the monthly subscription plan and not the annual one. Could you please check to determine whether the issue lies in our setup or with RevenueCat

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Charlie-pageNew Member
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RevenueCat for Offline Only Apps

Hey Revenue Cat users - I’m new to RevenueCat, but I’m creating an app that is all local storage, and currently doesn’t have any authentication. I want users to be able to try the app, but then pay a one-time flat fee to keep using it. Has anyone else built apps with this kind of use case for payment? It’s a flutter app, so it should be cross-platform. I want to have as minimal as possible of work for users. Are there any great docs on the revenue cat website (or elsewhere) detailing this kind of use case?

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dz1200New Member
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Feedback

Include refunds / refund info. Refunds should also appear in transactions Paginate transactions page so we can view more

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posted in Tips & Discussion
Google I/O 22 Announcements - RC Product Priorities

What features are you the most excited about?What would you like to learn more about? Many updates and changes have been introduced during Google I/O 22 and our team is busy deep diving into these topics and prioritizing them according to your needs. We would love to hear your thoughts and needs on these features. New Subscription Model - is it all clear what that means or would you rather we just take care of it? Play Console – how does your setup look after the changes? does this create an opportunity for your app? Flexible Offers - would you see yourself making a use of this? Prepaid plans - does this solve an issue for you? would you like to learn more about the payment landscape of recurring payments? Play Index - do you see yourself using the index moving forwards? If so, what kinds of communications would you expect from RevenueCat? Excited to hear from you!

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Peter Brockmann
Peter BrockmannNew Member
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😿‼️ Error fetching offerings - PurchasesError(code=ConfigurationError, underlyingErrorMessage=There's a problem with your configuration. None of the products registered in the RevenueCat dashboard could be fetched from the Play Store.

So I had this error message on my Android testing of my Flutter app (iOS worked like a champ) and worked through the troubleshooting steps provided by RevenueCat support, (https://community.revenuecat.com/sdks-51/why-are-offerings-or-products-empty-124), (BTW some of these screens need updating please, particularly because this is a popular post), I even got Google Play Store support involved (the portal is soooo convoluted) and after about two weeks of getting one email response per day, at my wits end, I engaged the chat service. A chat support person in Google told me in five minutes that I could only make my app release ‘ACTIVE’ in the Closed Testing if … my Managed Publishing state was ON! I didn’t know what that was, then they explained: them: Kindly go to your app's Publishing Overview section on you Play Consoleme: kthem: Then, click the "Turn off Managed Publishing" button.them: Once you've turned it off, kindly wait for the changes to be reflected on your Play Console. and th

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ezebecke.devNew Member
asked in Tips & Discussion
Privacy Policy

Got an email from Google Play asking me to disclose more information regarding RevenueCat: Your app is uploading users' Primary Account information to https://api.revenuecat.com without disclosing it in the privacy policy in Play Console. My app currently offers In-app purchases. I’m looking for Privacy Policies examples. Thanks!

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pmartiniNew Member
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Fetch in-app apple price based on user's contry

Hello When I fetch products and offerings using RevenueCat react native js library, it says that price is 1.99 for in-app purchase, but when a customer makes a purchase apple shows that price is $2.49 (user’s country is Ghana). The price on app store is set to Tier 2: $2.49 (developer’s account is from Ghana too), but it looks like it depends on user’s settings on the device. Is there a way to fetch actual price based on user’s country? Or revenue cat always returns price for USA (1.99) and I have to manually detect user’s country and convert it?

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BenFCNew Member
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Pricing tiers depending on country

Hi everyone, I was wondering what the best way is to set up different pricing in different countries. Example: High Price Tier: e.g. USA: 9.99 USD per month Medium Price Tier: e.g. Germany: 7.99 USD (converted from EUR) per month Low Price Tier: e.g. Brazil: 3.99 USD (converted from EUR) per month What is the best way to do this? Also, it would be nice to run separate experiments for each tier. Is the best way to set up different revenuecat offerings and have the app handle the selection of which offering is chosen based on the country? How would it be possible to run revenuecat pricing experiments then? Are there any best practices? Thank you already in advance. Cheers,Ben

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BogdastotelNew Member
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Purchase a subscription with a free trial?

Hello, I’ve manage to create an offer in the RC Dashboard and in the Google Play console that is attached to existing product (annual subscription). The offer includes free trial. When I call the getOfferings method and select the specific offer and try to purchase, the offer does not include the free trial I’ve previously attached. Any help here?

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AliakseiNew Member
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Renew subscription on the web

Hi there! How can I renew my subscription on the web? I want to be able to renew my expired subscription with just one button. For payments I use stripe checkout client only

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Michael Fogel
RC Support
RevenueCat Staff
RC SupportRevenueCat Staff
published in Tips & Discussion
Setting custom durations for promotional entitlements

RevenueCat’s promotional entitlement feature allows you to grant an entitlement to any of your customers directly from RevenueCat. These are the predefined durations allowed: Duration Description daily 24 hour access three_day 72 hour access weekly 7 day access monthly 1 month (31-day) access two_month 2 month (61-day) access three_month 3 month (92-day) access six_month 6 month (183-day) access yearly 1 year (365-day) access lifetime 200 year access To grant a promotional entitlement with a custom duration (for example, 5 days,) set the start time in the past so that the end time lands when you need. So for example if you want to grant a promotional entitlement for just one hour, grant a daily promotional (which is 24 hours) but set the start time to 23 hours in the past. The end time will then be 1 hour in the future.

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YousefDedicated Contributor
posted in Featured Articles
How to never see anonymous IDs

TLDR; Only configure with a known ID, and never call logout to prevent anonymous IDs. Why does the SDK use Anonymous App User IDs? Anonymous App User IDs are generated when the SDK is configured without a provided known ID. App User IDs are used to make sure the subscription that RevenueCat is tracking gets associated with the correct user. Anonymous App User IDs are always prefixed with $RCAnonymousID: which can be useful for working with anonymous users on your server. Many apps use a combination of anonymous App User IDs and their own known App User IDs which provides flexibility in their user purchase flows. However, some applications are intended only to be used while using a known App User ID, without anonymous users at all. In that case, unintentionally creating Anonymous App User IDs can cause unwanted issues for developers and end users. To never see anonymous IDs, you need to make sure to do the following. Only Configure the SDK with a known user ID The most frequent place th

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3DTOPONew Member
asked in Tips & Discussion
Subscription with included consumables

I am planning to offer a subscription that includes a certain number of consumable “tokens” per billing period. For example, maybe you get up to 20 tokens per month for $1/month, or 50 tokens for $2/month. But if the user exhausts their tokens before next month, it should be possible to either buy more tokens, and/or, upgrade to a higher plan level. I was wondering if anyone had suggestions for the best way to accomplish this with RevenueCat.

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cody
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carlosNew Member
asked in Tips & Discussion
Implementing non renewable purchase / managing entitlements

I have an app working where we sell renewing subscriptions. I am trying to implement a new use case, we would be selling for some users a one time purchase that gives them access for 20 months. I was thinking about implementing it as a non consumable IAP, with an entitlement attached, so that when the user buys this product, they get access to the app. But I'd still have to remove the entitlement when the time is up. I could do that in the backend, but I don't see a method in the API to remove an entitlement. How would you implement this? Is there a best practice to link an entitlement to a non consumable IAP with an arbitrary expiration date?

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nmeibergenNew Member
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Best practice for managing level upgrade with lowering duration

There is good explanation on how upgrades/downgrades work on the Revenuecat blog here. I however seem to be missing the case where the user upgrades in terms of a level and lowering the duration (at the section Upgrading Service Levels there is a description of moving to a higher level and a longer duration). As an example: Example > A user has a current subscription with 10GB of storage and with a 1 year duration. > The user now wants 25GB with 1 month duration. My question here is twofold: How do we configure levels, as my naive assumption would be that 25GB would be in a higher level than 10GB, independent of duration? If my assumption is correct how do we get around the situation where the following happens: Allowing the user to move to a higher level with shorter duration may results in a large refund and subsequently to earlier cancelation of any overall. I assume this is not something we want. What is the best approach to handling this case?

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sharif
RevenueCat Staff
sharifRevenueCat Staff
published in Featured Articles
How to solve 429 "There is another request in flight trying to perform the same action"?

While using RevenueCat you may come across an error that has an HTTP status of 429 and a response body that looks like this: { "code": 7638, "message": "There is another request in flight trying to perform the same action."} While a 429 Too Many Requests HTTP status code is frequently associated with rate limits, RevenueCat usually returns this error if multiple API requests were made simultaneously that are trying to update a single resource in the system. For example, if you make a POST /receipts request and a GET /subscribers request for the same user at the same time, the GET /subscribers request will try to update the receipt with Apple/Google but it’s already being updated by the POST /receipt, so RevenueCat will block one of the requests to prevent data race conditions. The solution to this is to simply retry the failed request a few seconds later, which will give RevenueCat a chance to complete any in-progress operation.

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sharif
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IanSNew Member
asked in Tips & Discussion
Consolidating Subscription Groups

Hello, Our product has multiple subscription groups built out but they have the same entitlements. It made sense at the time given iOS functionality but has led to a lot of problems where customers have purchased duplicate subscriptions. Going forward we want to move people to one subscription group to make sure customers don’t accidentally sign up twice. Has anyone dealt with this before? Are there any best practices for consolidating subscription groups? If not consolidate, is there a way for people to “upgrade” between subscription groups and cancel their current plan at the same time? Thanks

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