Subscription with free trial question

Hello,
My understanding (for subscription IAP in both iOS and Android) is that if I create a subscription with a free 7-day trial period, then the user will be charged the first subscription fee at the end of the 7-day trial.

However, if the user has already used the 7-day free period, and they have cancelled or unsubscribed, then the 7-day free period is not available and, if they want to subscribe again, they will be charged the first subscription fee immediately upon resubscribing.

Is that correct? and Will the SubscriptionInfo.isFreeTrial() method allow me to detect if the 7-day free period is no longer available to the user? If not, how do I do that?

Thanks!

 

How are you tracking your user purchases? The isFreeTrial only applies to the receipt on a product after it is purchased. But I suspect you want to be able to have button say "Free Trial, Click Here" or not, based on their previous activity? Otherwise, perhaps you should just allow the store to properly handle it?

 

I'm just starting to implement this. I was planning to track the purchase by adding fields to the userprofile object on my server for current subscription id and expire date (but please advise if you think I should change that).

So you're saying that the isFreeTrial does not indicate that a product offers a free trial? It only indicates that a purchased product is in its free trial period? Is that right?

My question is, is there any way to know if the user has already used the free trial period and will therefore not get a free trial period if they resubscribe?
I would like my purchase button to say "Get Free Trial" if they have not used the free trial yet, or just "Subscribe" if they have already used the free trial.

Is there any way to do that?

 

Got it, I will check.

 

Hello @JeffDUnity3D
Did you find an answer for this?
Thanks

 

No answer yet, will probably take a couple of weeks. Please post the results of your testing in the meantime.

 

Hello, I'm also interested in this question:

Any news on this?

 

So far we have not found a reliable way to expose this information. You would instead want to track and persist user purchases, many studios use a cloud save feature to track user purchases across devices. Inventory management is something we are looking at for a (much) future release. You could use PlayerPrefs but is often removed during reinstall https://stackoverflow.com/questions...renewable-subscriptions-during-the-free-trial

 

Hello @JeffDUnity3D Any news on this? Can I use SubscriptionInfo.getPurchaseDate() to check if a user is previously registered? Because we didn't design the cloud save system in the first place, there will be some users who do not receive correct subscription information.

 

I believe getPurchaseDate would only get the current purchase info. Sorry, I don't follow what you mean by designing the cloud save system.

 

Hey, It's been many years but I've been wondering if there's a feature added for this particular request?

How to tell if a user already used his&her free trial period for the specified product?

 

Got it, thank you very much.