The current user has insufficient permissions to perform the requested

I faced with a problem with subscription verification on the server side. I’ve already read tons of articals and manuals but issue is still there. I’ve created Service Account, linked project with Google Play Console, added Api, added user for service account and granted it admin. previlege, but when I run my sample app. it returns me “The current user has insufficient permissions to perform the requested”. I found similar issue for nodeJS. It seems that I have to wait about 24 hours…

Did anyone faced with the problem?

Code:

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    var privateKey = "{\n  \"type\": \"service_account\",\n  \"project_id\": \"....";

    var credential = GoogleCredential.FromJson(privateKey)
        .CreateScoped("https://www.googleapis.com/auth/androidpublisher");

    var accessToken = ((ITokenAccess) credential).GetAccessTokenForRequestAsync().GetAwaiter().GetResult();

    const string PACKAGE_NAME = "....";
    const string PRODUCT_ID = "week_auto_subscription_test";

    var token = "gpnmf....";

    var uri = new Uri($"https://www.googleapis.com/androidpublisher/v3/applications/{PACKAGE_NAME}/purchases/subscriptions/{PRODUCT_ID}/tokens/{token}");
    var client = new HttpClient();

    var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, uri);
    request.Headers.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Bearer", accessToken);

    var response = client.SendAsync(request).GetAwaiter().GetResult();
    
    Console.WriteLine(response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().GetAwaiter().GetResult());
    Console.ReadKey();
}

Result:

{
 "error": {
  "errors": [
   {
    "domain": "androidpublisher",
    "reason": "permissionDenied",
    "message": "The current user has insufficient permissions to perform the requested operation."
   }
  ],
  "code": 401,
  "message": "The current user has insufficient permissions to perform the requested operation."
 }
}

[mgrishkov]

About 48 hours has been elapsed and manually verification start works as expected. But verification via Google.Apis.AndroidPublisher.v3 still not works.

[egulhan]

I encountered the same issue. In my case, I was not using a key file (json one) for the granted service account on Google Play while verifying purchases on the back-end. I replaced the wrong key file with the one of granted service account on Google Play and it’s working fine now.