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Wei Loon Wong
Wei Loon Wong

Reputation: 460

Apple Sandbox: Only receive 'INITIAL_BUY' server notifications

We have setup Apple’s Server notifications for auto-renewable subscriptions. Last month we still able to get all notification type(INITIAL_BUY, RENEWAL, INTERACTIVE_RENEWAL).

Recently when we tested with sandbox (1 year subscription), we receive only 'INITIAL_BUY' server notifications, we were expect to receive 'RENEWAL' server notifications after 1 hour, but we are not getting those notifications.

Question:

I just want to confirm that is it a new notifications service that only send us 'INITIAL_BUY' notifications? And there are no server-to server notification if the renewal is successful?

Note:**

We did validate receipt with verifyReceipt server to check latest_receipt_info.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1580

Answers (1)

David Chatenay
David Chatenay

Reputation: 376

Correct. According to this technical note (https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2413/_index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS40016228-CH1-SUBSCRIPTIONS-MY_SERVER_PROCESS_RARELY_RECEIVES_RENEWAL_NOTICES_WHEN_THE_AUTO_RENEWING_SUBSCRIPTION_RENEWS_)

The App Store attempts to charge the user account 24 hours before an auto-renewing subscription expires. If the renewal is successful, there is no server-to server notification because the auto-renewing subscription did not enter into the expired state.

You have to actively call Apple's receipt validation endpoint on or around the expiration date of each receipt (and possible for a few days after that) to fetch the renewal receipts. Apple will not notify your servers.

Upvotes: 1

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