Concern regarding `getAvailablePurchases()`

Version of react-native-iap

4.4.3

Version of react-native

0.61.6

Platforms you faced the error (IOS or Android or both?)

Android

Expected behavior

First of all, thanks for all the efforts you put to make and maintain this library, really appreciate it.

getAvailablePurchases() should not return subscription that’s canceled (not renewed)

Actual behavior

in the test environment (using test account with test card), when i make subscriptions on my app and cancel the subscription before the expiracytime (5 minutes after purchase in the test account), my subscription won’t be listed in the result of getAvailablePurchases() when expiracytime is exceeded. Which is a desired behavior. However, if i let my subscription to renew (by not canceling before renew period), and then cancel it after that, getAvailablePurchases() would still list my subscription, even after expiracytime is exceeded. My question is, why does it still list subscription I no longer subscribed to?

Also, I want to know the details regarding getAvailablePurchases(), does it make a call to google billing to retrieve available purchases? or does it keep the purchase list locally?

test setting: https://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/billing_testing#testing-subscriptions

Tested environment (Emulator? Real Device?)

real device

Steps to reproduce the behavior

subscribe to a subscription, let it get renewed, then cancel. The subscription would still be listed as available purchases

[vkachan]

@darriuk I just tested cancelling subscription and confirm that autoRenewingAndroid property is set to false. But! Only if user cancels subscription explicitly. In case of cancelling subscription due to declined payment the subscription stays active forever. This is really big issue with subscriptions and there is no workaround. I had an idea to compare transactionDate and if this date is behind subscription term, then do cancel service on my side. But it seems like transactionDate is always first date of payment for subscription.

[darriuk]

@vkachan as far as I recall the transactionDate is indeed always for the first subscription payment.

One update from me: I ran getAvailablePurchases again approx 22 hours after cancelling subscription and it is finally returning an empty array. It looks like Google’s billing server is just taking ages to update the response.

I’m going to try a declined subscription payment today and see how long it takes to be removed from the getAvailablePurchases response.

UPDATE I tested declined subscription payment and getAvailablePurchases took approx 32 hours to return an empty array. So the purchase does get removed eventually, it just takes a good while to happen.