How to deal with subscriptions?

[liuzhen2008]

As far as I know, when key event occur during a subscription life cycle, an event will be received by the client side.

Does that mean all I need to do on the server side is to call iap.validate('GOOGLE'/'APPLE', receipt) and consume the event like that?

On google and apple, they both have a server-to-server notifications. Does this module have configurations to connect to it? If not, I guess I have to resort back to having client app to send me updates?

Thanks

[superandrew213]

You can use in-app-purchase to handle real time server notifications from Apple. Apple just sends you the receipt data that you would receive from the client.

For Google you need to make some small adjustments. See the issue that I opened here & my PR that makes it easy to handle Google real time server notifications.

@voltrue2 have you had any time to review this? I have been using it for while and haven't had any issues so far. It doesn't make any big changes. I am happy to use a different approach if you prefer :)

[liuzhen2008]

@superandrew213 This is so cool. Do you know how I would correlate the receipt data with my in app user id?

I suppose my client still needs to send me something?

Could you point me to the code that I need to write to receive APPLE server-to-server notifications? I couldn't find it in the tutorials..

[liuzhen2008]

@superandrew213 @voltrue2

If i use iap.verify() to verify a subscription receipt from client.

How do I tell when the subscription is cancelled? Do I basically look at expirationDate whenever I need to check whether my guy is subscribed or not depending on whether Date.now() is less than expirationDate?