With the release of the new subscription option from In-App Billing API we started a proof of concept of the service and we found a few issues. Has anyone else tried it and would have some answers for us? Here's the issues we have been facing so far:
1 – While testing the unsubscribe functionality, the Google Play interface displays a white page with an “Item not found” message and a retry button. Is it due to the fact the app is not yet published? If yes, how can we test this flow without publishing it first?
2 – Inter device synchronization. When making a subscription on one device, other devices tied to the same account did not receive a OnPurchaseStateChange event. Is it again due to the fact the app is not published? Or are subscriptions tied to a particular device and not to an account?
3 – On our Google merchant page, when we cancel a purchase, the device does not receive a notification telling the subscription has been cancelled. Is this a bug? As a workaround we are manually checking the current time and comparing with the expiration date to force a restore transactions call. At this point, we are able to see the subscription is no longer valid. Do you think this is an acceptable solution?
4 – When a subscription is made, two transactions show up on the Google Merchant page: a FAILED transaction with a value of $0 and a valid one with the value we charged. Is this the expected behavior? What’s the purpose of the $0 FAILED transaction?
If anyone has faced similar issues we would like to know. Maybe these could be bugs on Google's end or maybe we did not understand 100% how it is supposed to work.
Thanks in advance.
1.I had the same issue and after I published (and later unpublished) my app I could see the app page in the market,so you can publish and than unpublish.
2.I didn't check it with subscriptions ,but for managed item i didn't get purchaseStateChange on two different devices as expected.
3.I do get subscription expired after canceling one,but only after a while.
I didn't understood how you can get the expiration date ?
you only can get it with access to play developer api.
the restore transactions will give you same purchaseStateChange as you got when purchase the item.
*in the developer guide it is recommanded to use restore transactions only in first app use.
4.I have same issue,and i heard at least about 10 people with same 0$ charge.
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We have a notification only teams bot that is live for a number of customers in production.
Most of the time when it is installed it calls our messaging endpoint and updates the conversation ID so we can send teams notifications to our customers, however sometimes it seems to fail to do this for some reason so our systems don’t get a conversation ID.
We tried incrementing the version number of the teams bot and that didn’t seem to help.
Is there some way to get the conversation ID updated after initial installation?
Answer after contacting Microsoft Support is that it is impossible. The best solution is to have a non-notification only bot and then it works as you'd expect.
I have a react native app and using react-native-iap library to communicate with Apple/Google server to buy the subscriptions. The subscription got successful and it returns a transaction as well but when I try to use that receipt to validate in in-app-purchase library, it returns with cancelReason: 1. I don't know what's happening but as per the Google Play cancelReason:1 means, "Subscription was canceled by the system, for example because of a billing problem"
Below is the real purchase I tried with my app. I have added the amount to buy it from the prod app which uploaded on internal testing. This library isn't able to verify it. Even it's showing me as an active subscription on the Play store app in Manage Subscription.
If I try to restore purchase in my app, it would return a purchase but when I went to verify it from the in-app-purchase library, it doesn't validate. Don't know why.
Here is the receipt data I got from the react-native-iap library.
{"purchaseToken":"sdfdsfssfsd.AE-Jw-8fCifXt8xC1LzUDMhl2EyupYjgdGjmkpdHZH-j3-0YWE4UGa_jFlKTwodhLbKXCIWg","productId":"com.xyz.subscription","acknowledged":true,"orderId":"GPA.31-25-01-22058","purchaseTime":1620884406333,"packageName":"com.xyz","purchaseState":0,"autoRenewing":true,"subscription":true}
The response I got from the in-app-purchase library -
{"service":"google","status":0,"packageName":"com.xyz","productId":"com.xyz.subscription","purchaseToken":"sdfdsfssfsd.AE-Jw-8fCifXt8xC1LzUDMhl2EyupYjgdGjmkpdHZH-j3-0YWE4UGa_jFlKTwodhLbKXCIWg","startTimeMillis":"1620884406333","expiryTimeMillis":"1623562757349","autoRenewing":false,"priceCurrencyCode":"INR","priceAmountMicros":"79000000","countryCode":"IN","developerPayload":"","paymentState":1,"cancelReason":1,"orderId":"GPA.31-25-01-22058","acknowledgementState":1,"kind":"androidpublisher#subscriptionPurchase"}
if it got canceled as per the response, I didn't get any refund in my account.
Please help :(
I have created a Gsuite channel as per this reference https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/reports/v1/reference/activities/watch and its working fine. I can receive the webhooks for all the admin activities.
The problem is sometimes event such as "ADD_GROUP_MEMBER" or "REMOVE_GROUP_MEMBER" getting 10 to 12 times for the same user email and group email. I am also sending the response 200 for each webhooks but still, Gsuite keeps sending me the same events.
You can check on the attached events. I have received one webhook at 19:17:24 with some group member change. After 54 seconds I have again received the same event with all the same data. This happens almost 12 times. It only happens sometimes but when it happens it just hangs my server. Any idea of how can I prevent this?
Any help would be appreciated Thanks!!
Posting this just for documentation purposes.
This behaviour has been reported in Issue Tracker (I guess the author of this question reported it). Anyone who is experiencing this can keep track of the issue by clicking the star on the top left of the referenced page.
Reference:
Google Admin SDK : Reports API Activities : Watch > Sends a tones of same notification
I have an app that uses in-app purchases (IAP), specifically auto-renewable subscriptions.
Occasionally it seems that, when a subscription automatically get renewed, the local receipt doesn't get updated automatically. As a result, checking locally if an active subscription is available results false. Performing the same validation remotely (using Apple servers) returns true.
How and when is the local stored receipt updated or is this something that can only be triggered manually? If so, does this need to happen using SKReceiptRefreshRequest or SKPaymentQueue's restoreCompletedTransactions? Based on Apple's documentation the former seems to be the way to go:
A request to refresh the receipt, which represents the user's transactions with your app.
Unfortunately, this fails, perhaps because it thinks there's noting to update? However there is: as the local receipt is outdated as it doesn't contain the renewed subscription status.
I want to ensure I'm doing things correctly and this behavior (that again happens occasionally) is not something on Apple's end.
Thanks for any feedback.
I'm porting a working application from previous iOS's and am having trouble with the new in app purchase receipts.
The way we work now is to take the transactionReceipt property from the SKPaymentTransaction object and send it to the server for validation.
From what I could gather from other questions, it seems that the receipt is now held in one place, being :
[[NSBundle mainBundle] appStoreReceiptURL];
There are a few things I don't understand here :
Is there now one receipt for all of the purchased products?
If so, does this file grow and grow and grow?
If I want to send single receipts for single products to the server, how can I?
Is the only way to send the full file to the server all the time?
Very confused by this, any help would be greatly appreciated.
From what I've been able to gather via Apple's documentation.
1) There is one receipt for all purchased products. In order to perform server side validation you send the entire receipt to your server, which forwards it to Apple for verification. See this post on the Apple Developer Forums (starting around comment 13) https://devforums.apple.com/thread/193893?tstart=0
2) Non-consumables will remain in the receipt forever, so yes it will grow and grow. Consumables are removed lazily from the receipt once finished via a call to finishTransaction. See https://devforums.apple.com/message/876265#876265
3) The iOS6 way of looping through updatedTransactions and sending individual receipts to your server for validation seems at odds with the new iOS7 design. This post on the Apple Developer forums suggests you "Send the whole list of transactions to your server with the receipt. When the receipt is verified, deliver all of the products, and finish all of the transactions." https://devforums.apple.com/message/897870#897870
4) That really does seem to be the case.
If you believe the iOS7 documentation is lacking you can raise a bug report with Apple