Question SubscriptionManager .. handling subsequent subs rewards

Hi, when setting up a subscription purchase ...

I've tagged the purchase as 'subscription' via Unity Economy Beta custom data when initializing UnityPurchasing. I can successfully buy and process the rewards for the initial purchase. I'm just unclear how future subscription rewards are handled (the test subs payments are happening every 5 minutes).

I assume I have to poll the store via SubscriptionManager.getRemainingTime() or .getExpireDate() but am unsure about checking completion of payment or the number of payments since the app was last closed (i.e. launching app after 30 mins with the above 5 minute rollover)?

Thanks, s

 

Hi @JeffDUnity3D, thanks for your reply.

I've added the subscription purchase to Google Play Stores Subscription list. I'm notified by email of payments occurring every 5 minutes (I realise these would normally be weekly or monthly).

As a tester, with the subs payments happening frequently, several rewards would occur in 30 minutes, for example, so the app would need to apply the related rewards (e.g. 100 coins) several times.
I'm assuming then it's a case of the app checking today's date against the subscription start date or last time logged in then processing that amount of rewards?

Thanks, s

 

I'm probably misundertanding something. Say the subscription is $1 for 100 coins every month. Each month the player is charged $1 for 100 coins. The app determines if the subscription is active and when those coins are rewarded each month.
By 'several' times I'm just meaning that if I hadn't run the app for a few months but had continued the subscription payments then I'd be due more than one months coins-reward when I did run the app.

Hope that makes sense.

 

Fair enough. As you say, down to the subscription model. I think because of the frequency of subs payment occurring when testing (emails about the subscription every 5 mins) that I should handle the edge case of it rolling over several times between plays. Anyway, thanks again for your feedback.

 

Wrong use of the phrase then. But yeah, if the player has paid a monthly subscription fee but not recouped the rewards for several months because they've not logged in, then when they finally do log in they should receive the rewards they've paid for. Having talked about it, I think we'd want to be fair to the player if they've paid for it.

 

Ah ok, I can see now why there was some confusion about what I was suggesting then. Makes sense and simplifies things a lot I'd mentioned a coins reward as part of a subscription outside of this forum and hadn't been questioned on it, hence me running with it here, heh.
Cheers