Android account hold and restore features

I’ve come across this worrying message in the Play Store:

Reminder: You must support account hold and restore in your app by November 1, 2020. Subscription pause and resubscribe will also be enabled by default unless you explicitly opt out.

What does that mean for react-native-iap? Are these features supported by the latest version?

These are my current subscription settings, i’m not sure if this is compliant with this warning:

Could someone help me out understanding this better ?

[clems36]

Ok thanks for your help. Would love to know exactly what is returned by RNIP in an Account hold case. I’ll keep the issue open until somebody from RNIAP sees this.

[looggi]

That’s not right. It means we have to incorporate account hold and restore functionality from the app as well. I have seen the same functionality in some of the apps recently, not sure how to to do this with RNIAP.

Sorry I did not add enough details : my app already have a restore function so I forgot to mention it and I only talked about “account on hold”. I’ve just edited my previous post to correct it.

What to you mean by incorporating account hold ? Do you have the name of the apps you are mentioning ?

Restore : Restoring purchases is a pretty common IAP process and I think RNIAP supports restoring since the very beginning. There’s a ton of documentation everywhere.

Account hold : from my understanding, account holding is just a way to keep user on the hook of the subscription, it’s past grace period, supposed to notify the user, so I guess that functionality just supposed to offer a new chance to the customer to update its payment method without having to subscribe again. The account is “hold” during 30 days where the customer is prompt to update its payment method. My guess is that Google now makes account holding mandatory just to keep more customers using IAP transactions because it’s obvious that this will improve sales.

Please, correct me if I’m wrong.