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Release Notes - Cordova Plugin Purchase

13.6

13.6.0

Add store.when().receiptsReady(cb)

The "receiptsReady" event is triggered only once, as soon as all platforms are done loading the receipts from the SDK.

It can be used by applications that do not rely on receipt validation, in order to wait for the list of purchases reported by the native SDK to have been processed. For example, before running some code that check products ownership statuses at startup.

// at startup
CdvPurchase.store.when().receiptsReady(() => {
  console.log('All platforms have loaded their local receipts');
  console.log('Feature X: ' + CdvPurchase.store.get('unlock-feature-x').owned);
});

If the receipts have already been loaded before you setup this event handler, it will be called immediately.

Users using a receipt validation server should rely on receiptsVerified() instead (see below).

Add store.when().receiptsVerified(cb)

Similarly to "receiptsReady", "receiptsVerified" is triggered only once: after all platforms have loaded their receipts and those have been verified by the receipt validation server.

It can be used by applications that DO rely on receipt validation, in order to wait for all receipts to have been processed by the receipt validation service. A good use case is to encapsulate startup code that check products ownership status.

// at startup
CdvPurchase.store.when().receiptsVerified(() => {
  console.log('Receipts have been validated');
  if (CdvPurchase.store.get('monthly').owned) {
    openMainScreen();
  }
  else {
    openSubscriptionScreen();
  }
});

If the receipts have already been verified before you setup this event handler, it will be called immediately.

Add store.when().pending(cb)

This event handler can be notified when a transaction enters the "PENDING" state, which happens when a user has "Ask to Buy" enabled, or in country where cash payment is an option.

store.when().pending(transaction => {
  // Transaction is pending (waiting for parent approval, cash payment, ...)
});

Remove autogrouping of products

Starting at version 13.4.0, products were automatically added to the "default" group. This created more issues than it solved, because it let the plugin automatically try to replace potentially unrelated products.

People willing to rely on automatic subscription replacement on Android should explicitely set those product's group property when registering them. Or should use the oldPurchaseToken property when making an order.

Examples:

// Replace an old purchase when finalizing the new one on google play.
store.order(product, {
  googlePlay: {
    oldPurchaseToken: 'abcdefghijkl',
    prorationMode: CdvPurchase.GooglePlay.ProrationMode.IMMEDIATE_AND_CHARGE_PRORATED_PRICE,
  }
});

// For those 2 subscription products, the plugin will automatically replace
// the currently owned one (if any) when placing a new order.
store.register([{
  id: 'no_ads_yearly',
  type: ProductType.PAID_SUBSCRIPTION,
  platform: Platform.GOOGLE_PLAY,
  group: 'noAds'
}, {
  id: 'no_ads_monthly',
  type: ProductType.PAID_SUBSCRIPTION,
  platform: Platform.GOOGLE_PLAY,
  group: 'noAds'
}]);

13.5

13.5.0 - Add timeout to validation requests

By default, the plugin will now setup a 20 seconds timeout for receipt validation requests.

Receipt validation timeout can be detected using the following code:

CdvPurchase.store.when().unverified(function(response) {
  if (response.payload.code === CdvPurchase.ErrorCode.COMMUNICATION) {
    if (response.payload.status === CdvPurchase.Utils.Ajax.HTTP_REQUEST_TIMEOUT) {
      // request timeout
    }
  }
});

The value for timeout can be customized by specifying the validator this way:

CdvPurchase.store.validator = {
  url: 'https://validator.iaptic.com',
  timeout: 30000, // in milliseconds
}

13.4

13.4.3 - Add HTTP status to receipt validation error payload

Let the app know the HTTP status for a failed receipt validation call, in "response.payload.status".

CdvPurchase.store.when().unverified(response => {
    if (response.payload.code === CdvPurchase.ErrorCode.COMMUNICATION) {
        console.log("HTTP ERROR: " + response.payload.status);
    }
});

13.4.2 - Fix "owned" status when validator returns "isExpired"

Attempt to fix issue #1406 on iOS, with Ionic v6: applicationUsername isn't attached to purchase, it seems like this is due to strings passed as a subclass of NSString on this platform.

13.4.1 - Fix "owned" status when validator returns "isExpired"

Issue #1408 fixed. If the validator returns isExpired, the owned() method was returning an incorrect result.

13.4.0 - Product groups and Google Play

Products are now part of the "default" group when none is provided, as per the documentation. This is used on Google Play to automatically replace existing subscription by the newly ordered one.

This update can break your app if you have multiple independent subscription products on Google Play, as purchasing a subscription product will now cancel any existing one by default.

Use the group property in store.register to force legacy subscription products to be part of different groups.

13.3

Adding back functionalities that existed in version 11 of the plugin, mostly on iOS, and a few fixes. Detail below.

13.3.3 - Use canMakePayments on Apple AppStore

offer.canPurchase will be false if the platform reports that it doesn't support the "order" functionality.

When you check if the offer can be purchased, the plugin will now use the value from canMakePurchases (for Apple AppStore).

if (!offer.canPurchase) {
  // the given offer cannot be purchased. hide it or hide the buy button.
}

If none of the offers can be purchased, you can choose to hide the whole store.

There are 2 reasons why an offer cannot be purchased:

  1. Product is already owned (see product.owned)
  2. The adapter don't support "order()"

If you really want to access the low-level value of canMakePurchases you can do it like so:

const appStore = store.getAdapter(CdvPurchase.Platform.APPLE_APPSTORE);
if (appStore && appStore.checkSupport('order')) {
  // user can make payments
}

Ref #1378

13.3.2 - Add support for promotional offers on Apple AppStore

You can order a discount offer by providing additional data to "offer.order()" like so:

offer.order({
  appStore: {
    discount: {
      id: "discount-id",
      key: "...",
      nonce: "...",
      signature: "...",
      timestamp: "...",
    }
  }
});

Check Apple documentation about the meaning of those fields and how to fill them. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/storekit/in-app_purchase/original_api_for_in-app_purchase/subscriptions_and_offers/setting_up_promotional_offers?language=objc

You can check this old example server here: https://github.com/j3k0/nodejs-suboffer-signature-server

13.3.1 - Fix "store.order" promise resolution

Wait for the transaction to be purchased or the purchase cancelled before resolving.

Example usage:

store.order(offer)
  .then((result) => {
    if (result && result.isError) {
      if (result.code === CdvPurchase.ErrorCode.PAYMENT_CANCELLED) {
        // Payment cancelled: window closed by user
      }
      else {
        // Payment failed: check result.message
      }
    }
    else {
      // Success
    }
  });

13.3.0

Add the AppStore autoFinish option

Use this if the transaction queue is filled with unwanted transactions (in development). It's safe to keep this option to "true" when using a receipt validation server and you only sell subscriptions

Example:

store.initialize([
  {
    platform: Platform.APPLE_APPSTORE,
    options: { autoFinish: true }
  },
  Platform.GOOGLE_PLAY
]);

Optimize AppStore receipt loaded multiple times in parallel

When the Apple appStoreReceipt is loaded from multiple source, it resulted in a lot of duplicate calls. 13.3.0 optimizes this use case.

Add transactionId and purchaseId to VerifiedPurchase

It's just a TypeScript definition since the plugin doesn't do much with it, but it has been requested by a few users.

13.2

13.2.1 - Fixing parsing of incorrectly formatted validator response

13.2.0

Adding store.when().unverified()

unverified will be called when receipt validation failed.

Fixing Product.pricing

Issue #1368 fixed: product.pricing was always undefined.

13.1

13.1.6 - Fixing appStoreReceipt null on first launch

Bug hasn't been reproduced, but the fix should handle the error case that happened to this user (based on the provided logs).

13.1.5 - AppStore fixes

  • 51400ab Adding in-progress transaction to a pseudo receipt
  • c0e47b3 Reloading receipt from native side before receipt validation
  • 5a8542b Improved error reporting
  • 7a80a6d Do not call "finished" for failed transactions
  • 348431e Report success/failure of purchase
  • e53017c Fix crash when logged out of iCloud (#1354)

13.1.4 - AppStore fixes

  • b692e21 Don't error if finishing already finished transaction
  • 49c0508 Force receipt refresh after order() and restorePurchases()

13.1.3

Fixing some receipt validation use cases on Apple devices.

  • 9cfce2d Load missing iOS appStoreReceipt when validation call is requested
  • 2569147 Update validator functions to include the receipts
  • f03a751 Refresh appStoreReceipt if empty at validation stage

Update to requestPayment()

In the payment request, the items array now replace the productIds array. Use this array to define the list of items the user is paying for. For example:

CdvPurchase.store.requestPayment({
  platform: CdvPurchase.Platform.BRAINTREE,
  amountMicros: 11000000,
  currency: 'USD',
  items: [{
    id: 'margherita_large',
    title: 'Pizza Margherita Large',
    pricing: {
      priceMicros: 10000000,
    }
  }, {
    id: 'delivery_standard',
    title: 'Delivery',
    pricing: {
      priceMicros: 1000000,
    }
  }]
});

The format for items makes them compatible with products loaded from the stores. You can then manage your inventory on Google Play but allow payment for those Google Play products using Braintree:

store.register([{
  id: 'five_tokens',
  type: ProductType.CONSUMABLE
  platform: Platform.GOOGLE_PLAY,
}]);

// Later on...
store.requestPayment({
  platform: CdvPurchase.Platform.BRAINTREE,
  amountMicros: 11000000,
  currency: 'USD',
  items: [store.get('five_tokens')],
});

See PaymentRequest and PaymentRequestItem for details.

Fixes for Braintree.requestPayment()

Bug fixes:

  • Properly using the provided applePayOptions
  • Detecting payment request cancellations by user

requestPayment() amount computed from items

If the amount is not provided in a payment request, it will be computed as the sum of all items.

Currency will also be retrieved from the items when missing.

13.0

This is a full rewrite of the API, updated to allow:

  • using multiple payment processors in parallel
  • exposing multiple offers for a single product and complex pricing
  • exposing purchases from receipts (either local receipts or verified from a server)
  • placing custom payment requests

All JavaScript code has being rewritten in TypeScript, typings are now 100% complete and accurate.

If you're upgrading from an earlier version, check the migration guide.

The native code is built using version 12 as starting point, so all features from version 12 are available as well.

Braintree

This version introduces support for Braintree as a payment processor, it requires an additional plugin to add the libraries to your project: https://github.com/j3k0/cordova-plugin-purchase-braintree

The Braintree integration supports payment with 3DSecure and Apple Pay.

Windows Store

Support for payments on Windows Store has been dropped. It will be back in a later version.

Overview

The new API separates the different concepts with their own first-level entities:

  • Products
  • Offers
  • Receipts
  • Transactions

Products / Offers will contain the definition of what's available to the user to purchase.

Receipts / Transactions will contain details about what the user has purchased.

In the new API, it is possible to initiate transactions not necessarily linked with a product (using payment processors like Braintree).

It defines a generic Adapter interface, implemented by the various payment platforms. The core of the plugin controls and monitors the different active adapters and expose the unified API. Previously, we basically had an iOS implementation of the unified API (using StoreKit), an android implementation, etc... Now, many adapters can coexist in peace.

12.0.0

This was a first attempt to port the code to billing library v5. It's not recommended to use this version as, trying to keep the API backward compatible, made it messy and bug prone. Use version 13.

Upgrade to Google Play Billing library v5.0

With the upgrade to Google Play Billing library v5.0, many things will changes related to subscriptions, most importantly with the introduction of "subscription offers" and "pricing phases".

Receipt validations

Note that, at the time of writing this, validating purchases made with the Google Play Billing library v5.0 required the use the the SubscriptionV2 API. This API is already supported by iaptic, the successor to Fovea's receipt validation service, so it might be a good option if you do not want to implement this new API.

(Google Play) store.launchPriceChangeConfirmationFlow - Update

With Google Play, store.launchPriceChangeConfirmationFlow(productId, callback) is now the same as calling store.manageSubscription(). The underlying method provided by Google has been removed: https://developer.android.com/reference/com/android/billingclient/api/PriceChangeFlowParams - A deep link to the subscription management page on Google Play is now the newly recommended method.

NEW: product.offers - Subscription Offers support

A single subscription product can now be purchased with different offers. See https://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/subscriptions

To enable this new feature in a backward compatible way, the plugin will generate one product for each offer.

The generated products will have all the attributes of a legacy subscription product, with those noticeable values:

  • id: PARENT_PRODUCT_ID@OFFER_TOKEN.
  • group: PARENT_PRODUCT_ID.

The parent product will have an offers attributes. It's an array of strings containing the identifiers for all offers available to the user.

You can get the information for those offers with store.get(offerId), they are represented as virtual products.

NEW: product.pricingPhases - Flexible Pricing Phases support

Google now allows more flexible pricing in multiple phases. While it's currently limited to 2 phases, the API doesn't really impose that limitation.

To reflect this, the plugin now include prices in the product.pricingPhases attribute. It's an array of phases, with various costs, durations and recurrence modes. When present, this supersedes the legacy way of including prices and durations.

Here is the newly defined type:

/** Description of a phase for the pricing of a purchase. */
export interface IPricingPhase {
   /** Price formatted for humans */
   price: string;
   /** Price in micro-units (divide by 1000000 to get numeric price) */
   priceMicros: number;
   /** Currency code */
   currency?: string;
   /** ISO 8601 duration of the period (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Durations) */
   billingPeriod?: string;
   /** Number of recurrence cycles (if recurrenceMode is FINITE_RECURRING) */
   billingCycles?: number;
   /** Type of recurring payment */
   recurrenceMode?: RecurrenceMode;
   /** Payment mode for the pricing phase ("PayAsYouGo", "UpFront", or "FreeTrial") */
   paymentMode?: IPaymentMode;
}

/**
 * Type of recurring payment
 *
 * - FINITE_RECURRING: Payment recurs for a fixed number of billing period set in `paymentPhase.cycles`.
 * - INFINITE_RECURRING: Payment recurs for infinite billing periods unless cancelled.
 * - NON_RECURRING: A one time charge that does not repeat.
 */
export type RecurrenceMode = "NON_RECURRING" | "FINITE_RECURRING" | "INFINITE_RECURRING";

You can also keep the plugin in v11 compatibility mode using store.compatibility = 11 (or lower), in which case the legacy "introPrice", "billingPeriod" and such will be filled using the content of the pricingPhases array. Notice that this legacy mode can only support at most 2 pricing phases.

When in v11 compatibility mode:

  • prices and billing periods will be set using values from the last of the pricing phases.
  • intro prices and billing periods will be set with the values from the first pricing phase (if there are more than one)
  • product prices and billing periods will be set using values from the first offer for that product.

NEW: store.compatibility - Legacy compatibility

Let the plugin operate in compatibility mode by filling in deprecated fields. By default, the plugin does not attempt to work in compatibility mode.

  • Anything lower than 12 will use the legacy product price definition instead of the more generic offers property.
  • Anything lower than 10 will use the old names for intro period period definitions.

NOTE: the plugin might not be able to describe all Google Play subscription plans in compatibility mode (when non backward-compatible pricing modes are being used, for instance if there are more than 2 pricing phases).

11.0.0

Upgrade to Google Play Billing library v4.0

With the upgrade to the Billing Library v4, the main change was the way subscriptions are upgraded / downgraded. However, as this plugin offers a more high level interface, we were able to implement this migration in a non breaking way.

There are 2 noticeable additions to the API:

store.launchPriceChangeConfirmationFlow(productId, callback)

Android only: display a generic dialog notifying the user of a subscription price change.

See https://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/subscriptions#price-change-communicate

  • This call does nothing on iOS and Microsoft UWP.
example usage
   store.launchPriceChangeConfirmationFlow('my_product_id', function(status) {
     if (status === "OK") { /* approved */ }
     if (status === "UserCanceled") { /* dialog canceled by user */ }
     if (status === "UnknownProduct") { /* trying to update price of an unregistered product */ }
   }));

"IMMEDIATE_AND_CHARGE_FULL_PRICE" proration mode

The proration mode is passed to store.order(), in the additionalData.prorationMode field.

If IMMEDIATE_AND_CHARGE_FULL_PRICE proration mode is used when upgrading / downgrading a subscription, the replacement takes effect immediately, and the user is charged full price of new plan and is given a full billing cycle of subscription, plus remaining prorated time from the old plan.

10.6.1

Bug fixes:

  • c5fdc88 (android) Fix #1223 - Product with no title
  • 0f828c6 (android) Fix issue in order() when additionalData is undefined

10.6.0

Use the advanced-http plugin when installed

Receipt validation requests will use the advanced-http plugin when it is installed.

This allows to setup some extra options (like header authentication) and get rid of CORS issues.

See 68a6c3f

Bug fixes

  • 29af7bd (ios) Fix #1190 crash when order invalid product
  • 98f7323 (android) Fix #1201: Parsing of free trial periods

10.5.4

Add support for custom headers to validator call

store.validatorCustomHeaders can be set to an object containing keys and values of headers to be sent to the receipt validation server.

See 256a10e baae021

Minor changes

  • fb249b6 Adjust validator retry delay
    • When the request to the receipt validator fails, we now increase the retry delay to less agressive values.
  • 91489a4 (android) Query purchase on start every 24h only
    • The plugin used to query for purchases each time the app was sent to foreground.
    • No need to query more often than every 24h, to frequent calls used to causes issues (especially overlapping calls).
    • Ref #1110

Chores

  • 7be2fe6 Upgrade Google Billing Library to v3.0.3
  • eda72d7 (typescript) Integrate the documentation
  • f8bd21d (typescript) Add typings for refresh() return value

Bug fixes

  • ad70db7 (android) Fix #1126 - DEFERRED prorationMode typo

10.5.2

  • 7e9d58b (ios) Fix #1142 - Wrong references to storekit.ERR_*

10.5.1

  • c98817e Fix type chek error on tsc ^4.0.5
    • Contributed by @caiiiycuk
  • 08e271d Minor improvement to store.order()

10.5.0

XCode 12 (with support for iOS 14.0 new APIs) is required to use this version of the plugin for iOS.

dd6bf6f Add store.redeem()

Redeems a promotional offer from within the app.

  • On iOS, calling store.redeem() will open the Code Redemption Sheet.
  • This call does nothing on Android and Microsoft UWP.

example usage

    store.redeem();

10.4.0

This release contains fixes for minor bugs and edge cases.

c579e87 Improve use of isExpired collection field

The plugin now better handles the case where the receipt validator reports a subscription as expired using the collection field, even when this happens when validating the application receipt.

In particular, with this change, the expired event will be triggered when subscription expiry is set this way.

c0fc12e (ios) Limit interactive renewals detection to 1 hour

This fixes an issue where, for some users, the receipt was ever-refreshing because the plugin though it just expired, while this happened long ago.

43eff81 (ios) Don't assume in_app array is sorted

in_app used to be sorted chronologically, it's not true anymore. It was a bad assumption anyway.

fba6605 (ios) Fix #1123 - Found nil parameter when creating SKPaymentDiscount

SKPaymentDiscount was mistakenly initiated with nil parameters, which iOS 14.1 started to complain about.

Chores

  • 9193479 Add store.applicationUsername to typescript definitions
  • c1612e6 (ios) Remove "const" from ios-adapter.js
    • Keep the plugin compatible with old javascript engines.

10.3.0

(android) Upgrade to Google Play Billing Library to 3.0.0

The upgrade to the latest version of Google Play Billing Library comes with some difference, mainly in the native code, but also some new features and modified options.

Subscription proration modes

When upgrading and downgrading a subscription, you can now specify the proration mode, i.e. when and how the replacement will take place.

To support this, the plugin now accepts the prorationMode key in the additionalData passed to the store.order() function. Itis a string that describes the proration mode to apply when upgrading/downgrading a subscription with oldSku on Android. See https://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/subs#change

Possible values:

  • DEFERRED - Replacement takes effect when the old plan expires, and the new price will be charged at the same time.
  • IMMEDIATE_AND_CHARGE_PRORATED_PRICE - Replacement takes effect immediately, and the billing cycle remains the same.
  • IMMEDIATE_WITHOUT_PRORATION - Replacement takes effect immediately, and the new price will be charged on next recurrence time.
  • IMMEDIATE_WITH_TIME_PRORATION - Replacement takes effect immediately, and the remaining time will be prorated and credited to the user.

Removing developerPayload

developerPayload isn't supported anymore with Billing Library v3. See https://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/developer-payload

Update the subscription upgrade / downgrade

The new version now requires the oldPurchaseToken next to the oldSku to upgrade a subscription. This is a random string that identifies a purchase. The plugin is smart enough to figure it out for you when upgrading a subscription so there shouldn't be a reason to update your code.

However, it's now possible to force the value for this parameter (in case you have a doubt whether the running instance of your app doesn't have the latest data, this might safeguard against a unwanted upgrade).

(all) Add .failed and .cancelled to refresh() return value

Allows apps to display some UI element while the refresh() operation is in progress.

Disable retrying validator for expired subscription

This code dates from the era before Apple was returning the latest_receipt_info in the validator. There is no need to refresh the receipt anymore to make sure we have the latest info.

Bugs

  • (ios) Fix #1066 bug readonly property with WKWebView
  • (ios) #1092 Disable appStoreReceipt refresh on purchase
    • Calling refreshReceipt on iOS was triggering an unecessary password prompt, different from the fingerprint validation required by a purchase.

10.2.0

(all) Add product.device to validation requests

This will extend the info already retrieved from cordova-plugin-device. See f636bcf

(android) Upgrade play billing library to 2.2.0

See f0da787

(all) Set ineligibleForIntroPrice to all group members

When a product is ineligible for introductory price, all members of the subscriptions group should be ineligible as well. See fc1b39e

10.1.2

Add promise-like return value to store.refresh

store.refresh() now returns a promise-like object with the following functions:

  • .completed(fn) - Calls fn when the queue of previous purchases have been processed. At this point, all previously owned products should be in the approved state.
  • .finished(fn) - Calls fn when all purchased in the approved state have been finished or expired.

In the case of the restore purchases call, you will want to hide any progress bar when the finished callback is called.

<button onclick="restorePurchases()">Restore Purchases</button>
function restorePurchases() {
   showProgress();
   store.refresh().finished(hideProgress);
}

10.1.1

  • (ios) Refresh appStoreReceipt when purchase starts
  • (ios) Add appStoreReceipt to approved products
  • Fix store.register() when given an empty array

10.1.0

(ios) Add support for deferred purchases

Add deferred status information to products in the INITIATED state.

  • product.deferred - Purchase has been initiated but is waiting for external action (for example, Ask to Buy on iOS).

see https://developer.apple.com/documentation/storekit/skpaymenttransactionstate/skpaymenttransactionstatedeferred

(ios) Show restore receipt error reason

Add the native error code from restorePurchases to the error message.

(android) Implement store.update()

Refresh the status of purchase (pretty much same as store.refresh())

(all) Send device information with validation requests.

Add information to receipt validation requests that can serve different functions:

  • handling support requests
  • fraud detection
  • analytics
  • tracking

Information sent to the validator can be customized with store.validator_privacy_policy

  • store.validator_privacy_policy is an array of allowed functions.
    • fraud - send data required for fraud detection.
      • A hashed fingerprint of the device identifier or model. It allows to trigger alerts on your server when a lot of devices share a single receipt.
    • support - send information required for handling support request (OS, OS version, Device Manufacturer, Cordova version, ...)
    • analytics - same data as support, but indicate you'll make a different use of the data.
    • tracking - send device identifiers and/or uuid (if available).

Default: store.validator_privacy_policy = ['fraud', 'support', 'analytics']

Important: this feature requires the cordova-plugin-device plugin to be installed!

See 58e24c3

10.0.1

Android

  • (FIX) Purchases were reported incorrectly (See #967)

10.0.0

This release improves greatly the plugin's support of auto-renewing subscriptions, with features including discounts, subscription groups, billing periods, billing management, application receipts, plus some neat additions to the API. Here's the detail.

Important: New minimal system requirements for Apple devices is now XCode 10.2 (for support of Discount Offers on iOS and OSX).

store.update()

The new API method store.update() is a lightweight version of store.refresh(). It performs a similar function but guarantees never to ask for the user's password.

This new method is recommended to call whenever your user enters the Store screen (to ensure the most up-to-date prices are being displayed) or account status screen (to ensure subscriptions or ownership status are up-to-date as well).

See https://github.com/j3k0/cordova-plugin-purchase/blob/master/doc/api.md#-storeupdate for details.

Discount offers

The plugin now has full support for introductory offers and discounts for subscriptions.

Product's introPrice* and discounts.* fields contain details about available discounts.

See the related product attributes for details: https://github.com/j3k0/cordova-plugin-purchase/blob/master/doc/api.md#storeproduct-public-attributes

Subscription groups on iOS

product.group is now filled automatically for iOS subscription product.

Billing period fields

2 new fields are now exposed for subscription products: billingPeriod and billingPeriodUnit. They give you access to the billing cycle definition for the subscription. See the product attributes for details: https://github.com/j3k0/cordova-plugin-purchase/blob/master/doc/api.md#storeproduct-public-attributes

Manage billing

On iOS and Android, the new store.manageBilling() call will open the AppStore / Google Play page where the user can update his/her payment details (like the credit card associated with their account).

For example, you can now provide a direct link to this screen to a user which subscription renewal failed.

Application receipt

Better support for application receipts for iOS. A product whose type is store.APPLICATION is created for you. It can be validated to update data for all products based on the receipt.

Parse collection from receipt validator

When the receipt validator returns a collection field, it will be used to fill any field of the products. A collection is a map whose keys are product identifiers and values an object with fields to set.

Example: {..., "collection": { "my_subscription": { "expiryDate": "2019-12-01T10:00Z" } }

New error codes

New error codes than have been introduced since iOS 11 are now reported, instead of a generic error code.

  • store.ERR_PRODUCT_NOT_AVAILABLE -- Error code indicating that the requested product is not available in the store.
  • store.ERR_CLOUD_SERVICE_PERMISSION_DENIED -- Error code indicating that the user has not allowed access to Cloud service information.
  • store.ERR_CLOUD_SERVICE_NETWORK_CONNECTION_FAILED -- Error code indicating that the device could not connect to the network.
  • store.ERR_CLOUD_SERVICE_REVOKED -- Error code indicating that the user has revoked permission to use this cloud service.
  • store.ERR_PRIVACY_ACKNOWLEDGEMENT_REQUIRED -- Error code indicating that the user has not yet acknowledged Apple’s privacy policy for Apple Music.
  • store.ERR_UNAUTHORIZED_REQUEST_DATA -- Error code indicating that the app is attempting to use a property for which it does not have the required entitlement.
  • store.ERR_INVALID_OFFER_IDENTIFIER -- Error code indicating that the offer identifier is invalid.
  • store.ERR_INVALID_OFFER_PRICE -- Error code indicating that the price you specified in App Store Connect is no longer valid.
  • store.ERR_INVALID_SIGNATURE -- Error code indicating that the signature in a payment discount is not valid.
  • store.ERR_MISSING_OFFER_PARAMS -- Error code indicating that parameters are missing in a payment discount.

Fixes and minor updates

  • (ios) Set applicationUsername in purchase requests
  • (ios) Don't cache appStoreReceipt in localStorage
  • (all) Fully restore the state of a product when purchase has been cancelled
  • (all) Watch and verify expired subscriptions
  • (all) Add store.getApplicationUsername()
  • (all) Add store.platform (apple, google or windows)
  • (android) Fix reporting purchase cancellation
  • (ios,osx) Remove support for XCode 9
  • update typescript

9.0.0

Android full rewrite

The native side has be re-implemented using the Billing Library v2. We wiped out the old code completely.

If your app follows all implementation recommendations, you shouldn't have anything to change in your application. In particular:

  1. Finish approved transactions with .finish(), optionally after receipt validation.
  2. Be ready to handle purchase events as soon as the application starts.

Those steps were already required on iOS, they're now as well on Android.

Some explanation can be found on Android Billing Library release notes: https://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/billing_library_releases_notes#release-2_0

  • Google now requires apps to acknowledge purchases (which is done by calling finish()).
  • Google Play now supports Pending Transactions, which will can be handled on a subsequent application startup (potentially on a different device).

More at the link above.

store.applicationUsername

For the same reason as above. The new API ensure applicationUsername can be made available to the plugin whenever needed. A nice side effect is that it will now be added to all receipt validation requests (before, it was only there at purchase time).

See https://github.com/j3k0/cordova-plugin-purchase/blob/master/doc/api.md#storeapplicationusername for details.

subscription groups

product.group now contains the name of the group a subscription product is a member of (default to "default").

Only 1 product in a subscription group can be owned. On Android, purchasing a new subscription in the same group will replace the existing active one (if any).

store.developerPayload

developerPayload used to be set at purchase time (as additional data, but this won't work anymore with the new Android Billing Library (with Pending Transactions), thus the introduction of this new API.

See https://github.com/j3k0/cordova-plugin-purchase/blob/master/doc/api.md#storedeveloperpayload for details.

store.developerName

An optional string of developer profile name. This value can be used for payment risk evaluation (Android only).

See https://github.com/j3k0/cordova-plugin-purchase/blob/master/doc/api.md#storedevelopername

General

  • cordova-plugin-purchase is now the official name for the plugin
  • Fix: Typescript definitions

8.1.1

(android/windows) Auto-retry failed initialization

  • Ported the auto-retry-initialization logic from the iOS implementation to android and windows.

Contributor: Jean-Christophe Hoelt

Documentation

A lot of minor improvements to the documentation.

8.1.0

macOS support

  • macOS In-App Purchase is not supported. It shares most of the iOS implementation.
  • The implementation is 100% compatible with iOS.

Contributor: Giuseppe La Torre

Disable Hosted Content (Apple)

You can now omit automatic downloading of hosted content by setting the disableHostedContent store flag, for example:

    store.disableHostedContent = true;

Contributor: Dave Alden

Android ANR fix

  • Backported some code from frostwire that fixes an occasional ANR at startup in IabHelper.

Contributors: Jean-Christophe Hoelt, Dave Alden

8.0.0

Microsoft Window UWP Support

With the addition of the UWP support, you can now target Windows 10, XBox and Windows 10 Mobile. All product types are supported: Subscriptions, Consumables and Non-Consumables.

Thanks to SimPlan for co-funding this feature!

Introductory Prices

Support for Introductory Prices have been added to iOS, Android and Windows.

New fields added to product objects:

  • product.introPrice - Localized introductory price, with currency symbol
  • product.introPriceMicros - Introductory price in micro-units (divide by 1000000 to get numeric price)
  • product.introPriceNumberOfPeriods - number of periods the introductory price is available
  • product.introPriceSubscriptionPeriod - Period for the introductory price ("Day", "Week", "Month" or "Year")
  • product.introPricePaymentMode - Payment mode for the introductory price ("PayAsYouGo", "UpFront", or "FreeTrial")
  • product.ineligibleForIntroPrice - True when a trial or introductory price has been applied to a subscription. Only available after receipt validation. Available only on iOS

Refresh Receipt from validation server (iOS)

Validation servers can now inform the client that the most up-to-date receipt have been used. On iOS, the plugin had to refresh the receipt when the subscription expired, thus opening the AppStore password popup for the user. This can now be prevented by returning the latestReceipt from the validation server.

Remove iOS 6 support

Support for receipt.forTransaction has been dropped. Per-transaction receipts were a thing prior to iOS 7. Everyone now uses per-application receipts.

Subscription Expiry Date

Two new fields have been added to subscription products:

  • product.expiryDate - Latest known expiry date for a subscription (a javascript Date)
  • `product.lastRenewalDate - Latest date a subscription was renewed (a javascript Date)

Those are filled using data from the local receipt on Android and Windows. For iOS, it has to be returned by the receipt validation server (other platform will also update the value based on what the server returns).

Compatibility

This version has been tested with the following cordova platforms versions.

  • cordova-android 6.4.0, 7.1.0, 7.1.4, 8.0.0.
    • 2 versions are known to fail: 7.1.1 and 7.1.2, a bug fix in [email protected] created other issues, like breaking a few plugins installation (including this one).
  • cordova-ios 4.5.5 and 5.0.1
  • cordova-osx 4.5.5 and 5.0.0
  • cordova-windows 7.0.0
  • cordova 7.1.0, 8.1.2, 9.0.0