Tips & Discussion

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63 Posts

Jacob Eiting
RevenueCat Staff
Jacob EitingRevenueCat Staff
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RevenueCat CEO checking in

Hi! I’m Jacob, recovering iOS engineer and CEO of RevenueCat.  It’s still a bit mind boggling how many folks are using our little SDK these days, and I’m excited that we have an open community to chat about it. I’d love to hear your product and company feedback. I don’t get to spend nearly enough time with developers using our product day-to-day and would love to hear what direction you think we should take the SDK, the dashboard, and ultimately the company. We are here to help you make more money with your apps, so tell us what you need! P.S. I’m thinking about making an app. Can you still make apps in Objective-C?

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1 year ago
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cf4ed4New Member
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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 testAs 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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6 days ago
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FlorianNew Member
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Billing Issue message sheet on iOS

Hi, Do we have a release date for the Billing Issue message sheet on iOS? I haven’t found anything better than “this summer”.https://developer.apple.com/documentation/storekit/message/reason/4123328-billingissue Also, has anybody already tested it in Sandbox? Thanks!

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17 days ago
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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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Michael Fogel
RevenueCat Staff
22 days ago
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RevenueCat Staff
Haley PaceRevenueCat Staff
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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 subscriptio

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1 month ago
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JuliaNew Member
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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
RevenueCat Staff
1 month ago
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jacklinNew Member
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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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2 months ago
0xDEV
0xDEVNew Member
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Tracking/Viewing Monthly Earnings from New vs. Existing Customers on RevenueCat

Hello everyone,I was wondering if anyone could share their methods or strategies for monitoring revenue on RevenueCat. Specifically, I'm interested in how to break down monthly earnings between new customers and existing ones.Any advice or insights would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.

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Michael Fogel
RevenueCat Staff
3 months ago
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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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3 months ago
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quentinhytNew Member
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Allow to filter experiment results by country

As of today, if I want to run the same experiment in different countries and have separate data for each country, I have to run it as many time as there is countries. RevenueCat only allows one experiment per project at a time.So of I want to try the same 5 months experiment in 5 countries, it will take 25 months in total.Why not allow to filter a global experiment’s data by country on display?

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Michael Fogel
RevenueCat Staff
3 months ago
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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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RevenueCat Staff
4 months ago
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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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RevenueCat Staff
4 months ago
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Anonymous
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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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4 months ago
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 then,

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Peter Brockmann
5 months ago
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ezebecke.devNew Member
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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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5 months ago
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pmartiniNew Member
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Fetch in-app apple price based on user's contry

HelloWhen 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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6 months ago
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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 monthMedium Price Tier: e.g. Germany: 7.99 USD (converted from EUR) per monthLow 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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7 months ago
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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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8 months ago
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robert-agaveNew Member
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Offerings or products empty

Hi! Just want to share our experience with App Store and app review team not able to fetch products.So we got rejected several times because product prices were not showing up for app review team, while local testing on device and also TestFlight consistently worked ok. So we decided to hardcode our subscription prices and it helped, app got released to App Store. But unfortunately payment wasn’t working, as products were coming still empty. We planned several strategies how to debug it, but I really wanted to give it a time, because a lot of users were posting that it took up to 24 hours for payments to propagate. In our case it took ~72 hours! But it works now! So guys don’t loose hope and just give it a time. P.S. while waiting for payments to propagate, on Approved subscriptions page we fixed typo in our subscription Localization and it turned into waiting for review status. Payments started working as our localization got approved. So not sure at all but maybe it helped payments t

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RevenueCat Staff
8 months ago
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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
RevenueCat Staff
8 months ago
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pruppertjrNew Member
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Can I create a way to unlock an entitlement outside of an In-App Purchase?

I have an app with an optional subscription for additional features. I have a company that wants to offer these features to it’s employees via a partnership. Basically they will pay a one time fee for 1 year access on behalf of their employees who download the app. On the app store, I can create a promo code that grants a 1 year free trial, but this will auto renew on the individual users Apple ID’s, which is not what I want. It’s not possible to do this with the other subscription option (Non-renewing subscriptions) which I thought would be the ideal solution for this case.  Would it be possible to create a section in my app, where the users can enter a custom code which will unlock a certain entitlement? Thank you!  

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sharif
RevenueCat Staff
9 months ago
RC Support
RevenueCat Staff
RC SupportRevenueCat Staff
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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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RC Support
RevenueCat Staff
9 months ago
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3DTOPONew Member
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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
RevenueCat Staff
10 months ago
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carlosNew Member
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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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10 months ago
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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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11 months ago

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