In an Android app I offer a subscription with base plans of different billing periods, say monthly and yearly. I offer a free trial of 1 week for the monthly plan, and a free trial of 2 weeks for the yearly plan. I allow users to switch between the billing periods.
Now if a user is in the free trial of the monthly plan and switches to the yearly plan, will the free trial be extended to 2 weeks? Also, what will happen in the reverse case?
This is not explained here https://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/subscriptions or here https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/12154973, and cannot be tested since for test subscriptions all free trials are 3 minutes: https://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/test#renewals.
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Hi Stackoverflow community,
We've built a cross-platform app and I'm trying to figure out our conversion rates. We are using RevenueCat, however we don't trust the information it's giving us. Our app offers a free 7-day trial with either a monthly or a yearly paid subscription.
On Google Play Console, under Financial Reports -> Subscription -> Overview, I can see the number of new subscriptions per each month, but these include free trials.
What I'm looking for is a more detailed summary:
number of free trials
number of conversions from free trial to monthly and yearly subscription
Google Play Console: Subscriptions overview: new subscriptions with included free trials
On Apple App Store Connect, I can easily access this data and measure the % of downloads to free trials and % of free trials to paying customers, but I can't seem to find this data on Google Play Console.
Q: Where to find the number of free trials and the % of conversions from free trial to paid subscribers on Google Play Console?
In our app, we have four different subscriptions - Basic monthly, Premium monthly, Basic Yearly and Premium Yearly. If a user purchases any of these subscription, he will be given a free trial for the same. Once his free trial expires, his subscription will be auto-renewed. Afterwards, If he tries to upgrade/crossgrade/downgrade to another subscription, there will be no free trial for that subscription.
In Google play console, I am able to provide one free-trial across all the subscriptions in my app through the subscription settings.
We are also providing introductory price to the users.
But I am not able configure the free trial like settings for introductory price. Introductory price is provided to all the subscriptions when he purchases it. But we want it to be available only once across all subscriptions. How to do it?
We cannot add the Introductory price to all the plans
As the document states [ Link ]
If the introductory period is a different length of time than the
subscription period, the introductory price must cost less per day
than the original price. For example, if a subscription costs $15 per
month (or $0.50 per day), a week-long introductory price must cost
less than $3.50. For these calculations, a month is always considered
to be 30 days.
Based on the above calculations, it is impossible to calculate and validate a single "Introductory Price Value" matching all SKUs.
I have an application that has 6 subscriptions (3 with monthly billing (A, B, C) and 3 with semi-annually billing (X, Y, Z)). I have configured the free trial of 3 days and I have not activated "Activate subscription-level free trial" on google play console.
However, if a user enrolls in a monthly billing subscription, even after the expiration of free trial the user is still provided with a free trial for the semi-annually billing subscription.
For example, A user enrolls in "A subscription" and after the expiration of free trial i.e. 3 days the user can enroll in X, Y or Z plan for free but not on B and C. My requirement is after using free trial for one subscription, the user shouldn't be provided with free trial anymore.
I have defined 5 different products from developer console each having 7-day free trial. Within first days, users were able to get free trial for each of them seperately. I also tried and tested. I were able to start free trial for 2 different products.
However, now when you start one free trial, you are not able to start others. Google prompts you to pay and buy also informs you that you already got a free trial and can't get anymore.
I have noticed in https://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/billing_subscriptions.html#trials that
You can provide each user with only one free trial, regardless of the number of subscription products that your app offers
Is that new?
I checked the Google documentation about the part concerning the free trials, the problem is that those free trials seem to be only applicable to the subscriptions.
Is there any way to setup free trials for the other kinds of in-app purchases? (in my case just normal products)
PS: I could try using the subscriptions, but I guess there will be an automated purchase activated once the period is over. I don't want of course to let them buy this subscription.