I am using InAppBilling version 3 in my app, I am able to purchase subscriptions using test account. Now my question is how do I know the billing details in my app againt one subscription plan. Suppose I have purchase one plan and it renews Daily, Is there any provision or method to know that renew is done to this product with details(like for ex. product_id, time, date, update, renewing_status...etc). I have refered to this link.
And the other thing is that do a user can subscribed to multiple subscription at a time ?
After searching quite a bit, finally I found my solution. Google don't provide subscription order number for test purchases(if you are using test account to test your application without going to production). It only provide product_id, token, purchase_time, developer_payload, autoRenewing, package_name and purchase_state as if Google don't send details to Play Billing server as it is not a real purchase. Still your can implement your own logic as it provide autoRenewing = true(if product is in renewal state) and false(if product is in non-renewal state) with purchase_state = 0(purchased) , 1(canceled) and 2(refunded). And one more thing I came to know after reading documentation of Google that, test user who has taken the subscriptions the recur on daily basis, but they will only get the same details, which they get while purchasing a test subscription plan.
It provide order Id for real purchases with other details. If your subscription is monthly and your order Id is GPA.1234-5678-9012-34567 while purchasing the plan. Then next month Google append your order Id with GPA.1234-5678-9012-34567..0(second month) , GPA.1234-5678-9012-34567..1 (third month) and so on. So you can track your renewal of purchases with order Id as described in here. Rest are same.
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I have gone through most of the links here on stackoverflow and i have some doubts regarding InApp Subscriptions and Google Wallet.
What i know:
InApp Subscriptions basically allows a user to be able to subscribe to an app, say for example if it offers one year trial period, then once thats over, Google automatically handles the subscriptions then after.
Google Wallet, its a method that can be used to perform the purchase. What i don't understand is, can i use this method in order to allow users to use the app for one year, and then make them pay for the next years?
Billing continues indefinitely at the interval and price specified for the subscription. At each subscription renewal, Google Play charges the user account automatically, then notifies the user of the charges afterward by email. For monthly and annual subscriptions, billing cycles will always match subscription cycles, based on the purchase date. (Seasonal subscriptions are charged annually, on the first day of the season.)
This is what happens in my app:
1. A user logs in, and i get a date that probably keeps track of the billing cycle
2. If the sessions expired, the user is asked to pay using the inApp Billing serivce
3. Based on TrivailDriveApp Example, where we have the success log printed on subscription, we update the date of payment.
Some questions i have:
As per the quote from android, if the user is automatically subscribed to the service, and if a mail is sent to the user, does that mean that i would never be able to get a notification about the payment extension? How do i sync that with the server then?
Is my approach wrong in handling this kind of scenario? Or do i have to select a different method of handling app extensions?
P.S: There is no way of testing inapp subscriptions also. I wonder if i could do that without using real credit/debit card credentials.
EDIT:
I would also want to keep track of when the purchase or billing was done, if subscriptions are auto-renewed, then should i take up the purchase flow as an InApp Product instead of an InApp Subscription?
Please help.
Programmatically, I understand how to manage a single users subscription, but have not found a way to retrieve a holistic picture of In-app Subscriptions.
The closet thing I've found in the In-app Subscription documentation deals with tracking subscriptions to order numbers:
To help you track transactions relating to a given subscription, Google Wallet provides a base Merchant Order Number for all recurrences of the subscription and denotes each recurring transaction by appending an integer.
Using this mechanism in a roundabout way one can determine current subscription orders, but this doesn't give a clear picture of subscribers. How do you enumerate the number of users who are currently signed up for an In-app Subscription?
The Finance overview for an app in the Google Play Store Developer Console provides a summary of app revenue. In addition to App Sales the Fiance screen details a summary for Subscriptions which breaks down revenue by: day, last 7 days, last 30 days and overall.
I have working app that sells in-app products (InApp billing v3).
Recently I've made an update for this app and made a terrible mistake there: I consumed some of purchases I didn't want to consume.
I issued an update and users updated the app and then wrote me they have no purchased access. (As I found later, I consumed wrong items).
So I have some questions now:
Is there a way to restore consumed purchases or I should return payments to my users?
Is there a way to find out how many and which purchases were consumed?
If returning payments, is there a way to find out if user still has the product or is it consumed with out changing the app (through google services)?
Thanks.
According to what I have understood from your question, It seems like you want to purchase product only once.
What I wished to ask: is there a way to request information about consumed products like about owned products.
you can get response or it's information in any type(Managed Product, Unmanaged Product, Subscription) in the onActivityResult method() check my below link.
In-app billing-v3 error in activity result
but I would not prefer you to manage it customly as you told for one time purchase product(not consumable product). You should go with the Manage product.
Managed In-app Products:
Managed in-app products are items that have their ownership
information tracked and managed by Google Play. When a user purchases
a managed in-app item, Google Play stores the purchase information for
each item on a per-user basis. This enables you to later query Google
Play at any time to restore the state of the items a specific user has
purchased. This information is persistent on the Google Play servers
even if the user uninstalls the application or if they change devices.
for more information about product type
you can query any time you want and you will get the product information, and even you don't need to manage if user has already purchase this product or not.
Is there a way to restore cnsumed purchases or I should return payments to my users?
Better option is you should give the payments back to the user and for the next time check the whole app once using dummy product "android.test.purchased" and update your app.
Is there a wat to find out how many and which purchases were consumed?
You have to check in the Google wallet because all transaction should be handle by the it, check if it gives you product type or not. Using your google developer console credential you can signed into google wallet.
If returning payments is there a way to find out if user stil has the product or is it consumed with out changing the app (through google services)?
as per above answer you have to check in google wallet, according to my knowledge they are provide us all of information about product type with user detail.
Let me know if I have not properly understood your question.
Hope it will solve your problem.
Before I explain my question, let me give an example situation.
A user of a magazine app subscribes to the monthly subscription on the month of August and September. If the user reformats the phone, the app should be able to restore both August and September month's magazines.
The problem with this is that, the In-App Billing API returns only the latest subscription and whether the subscription is active.
Also, I want the users to be able view the previous months' magazines even if they have canceled their subscription.
Is there a way to keep track of all payments made by the user?
This likely would involve your own independent servers and "developer payload" information. As stated in this Subscriptions link:
Include business logic in your app to notify your backend servers of subscription purchases, tokens, and any billing errors that may occur. Your backend servers can use the server-side API to query and update your records and follow up with customers directly, if needed.
In other words, you should be keeping track of this--unfortunately.
Further, you can check this api reference as to whether a user's subscription purchase is valid.
I am building an app that I want to use Google in app billing for. Does Google track in-app purchase history for me, so that I can query history and get data, say, by date or by item, etc. Or must my app itself store user's purchase history on my own backend? Also, if you can please provide a link so I can verify this info.
For your question answer is both YES and NO Google will take care of all purchases based on product type. If you are using Non-consumable or Subscription based products Google will keep records, in other case if you are using Consumable products Google will keep it's record till your app consumes that product.
If your app sends a purchase request Google will associate it with primary gmail account registered on android device and will not allow to purchase same product twice.
NOTE:- If You are using IAB-2 then above product type and flow will slightly different
Non-consumable ** is known as **Managed Products
*Subscription* is same as Subscription
*Consumable* is known as Unmanaged products
In case of IAB-2 google will never keep record of Unmanaged products and it is your responsibility to keep records if you want.
For more details see below link to developer guide.
Developer guide