Doesn't let rebuy Android item on test account

[ilyakar]

Version of react-native-iap

0.3.10

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

Android

Expected behavior

Should be able to rebuy an item as many times as I need since I'm just testing

Actual behavior

Returns

Error: You already own this item.
    at createErrorFromErrorData (59522b9c-ca17-4e00-9e00-05cc989b1199:2016)
    at 59522b9c-ca17-4e00-9e00-05cc989b1199:1968
    at MessageQueue.__invokeCallback (59522b9c-ca17-4e00-9e00-05cc989b1199:2410)
    at 59522b9c-ca17-4e00-9e00-05cc989b1199:2155
    at MessageQueue.__guardSafe (59522b9c-ca17-4e00-9e00-05cc989b1199:2323)
    at MessageQueue.invokeCallbackAndReturnFlushedQueue (59522b9c-ca17-4e00-9e00-05cc989b1199:2154)
    at t (RNDebuggerWorker.js:1)

Steps to reprodue the behabior

Buy an item more than once using a test account

[hyochan]

@ilyakar Is this a consumable product? You should consumeItem to rebuy it. Please read some guides on how IAP works in android.

[ilyakar]

Hi @dooboolab, it's not a consumable product. Users have it forever. There's a way to restore the product so it's good to let users known in production that they cannot buy the same product again since they already bought it. But for testing purposes, it gets very uncomfortable to have to use a different account each time all the purchases have been bought.

[ilyakar]

I don't think I had this problem in 0.2.17

[hyochan]

@ilyakar Ah.. Sorry I was confused. Actually, if it is non-consumable product, you can't actually rebuy it. If that was possible in 0.2.17 that must be working awkwardly.. Only consumable products are able to rebuy it. It is same in both platforms (ios and android). If user want to restore the item they have to do it optionally but as in LINK, it won't charge the user again. Therefore, if you are designing in-app products that you want to charge users by rebuying, I think you should create consumable product.

[hyochan]

@ilyakar I've got feedback from my friend developer and he also faced the same problem. Therefore, I came up with solution to use refreshItems method that only occurs in android. You can use this in react-native-iap@0.3.13. Try using it after prepare method. My friend was facing this issue because he couldn't find the token of purchased product to consume. Therefore, this method is just for your ease if you don't care about the history of the purchases that relies in playstore. When you have your own backend collecting the purchase history, this will help you to solve the issue. I have to take a look on this one furthermore tough. Also, following the readme would help you. Thank you for your report!

P.S. I think above method will work on non-consumable product too. Also this article will help you understand what refeshItems would solve you.

[deadcoder0904]

I think this is already solved since I don't think IAP works with Test Account

And @dooboolab's solution of refreshItems is the way to go

One noob question @dooboolab as I have only implemented IAP once in an Android App but never tried if it works 😂

Can we buy a product without spending any money like $0❓

[ilyakar]

Yes @deadcoder0904, that's the whole concept of Android test accounts (https://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/billing_testing.html). Which do work fine with the plugin, but as I have pointed out, you cannot make the same purchase twice.

[hyochan]

@ilyakar You're saying that it is still not working. Did you tried calling refreshItems after buying product? As described in here, it may cause some delay in playstore. However, you can force consuming the product to able to rebuy again. I'm also curious why this works though.. Also watch out if you rely on purchases on google play history and not collecting it in your backend.

[ilyakar]

Hi @dooboolab, I was just responding to @deadcoder0904 with my previous knowledge. I'm afraid I have not tried your solution and probably won't for some time since it's not an urgent fix. But I will let you know in the future when I have.

[hyochan]

@ilyakar becareful using refreshItems because it will consume all the products user has bought. You can only use it if you don't care about those information stored in playstore because you have your won server. Also, this problem use to occur like I posted 13 days ago from here, if user has refunded the item, user may not rebuy the same item for 24 hours.

[TylerNoblett]

I was running into the same issue as @ilyakar, and using the code below I was able to clear the non-consumable purchase and test it again.

async componentDidMount() {
    const { itemSkus } = this.props;
    try {
      const result = await RNIap.initConnection()
      console.log('initiated connection?', result)
      const consumed = await RNIap.consumeAllItems();
      console.log('consumed all items?', consumed)
      let products = await RNIap.getProducts(itemSkus);
      console.log('loaded products', products)
    } catch (err) {
      console.warn(err);
    }
  };

[roots-ai]

@TylerNoblett This solution isn't working right now.

• I tried with consumeAllItemsAndroid instead of consumeAllItems.
  Any further help is appreciated.

[tulpn]

The console output is:

setUpDeveloperTools.js:73 TypeError: _reactNativeIap.default.consumeAllItems is not a function
    at loadPurchases$ (NewGameScreen.js:167)
    at tryCatch (runtime.js:45)
    at Generator.invoke [as _invoke] (runtime.js:271)
    at Generator.prototype.<computed> [as next] (runtime.js:97)
    at tryCatch (runtime.js:45)
    at invoke (runtime.js:135)
    at runtime.js:145
    at tryCallOne (core.js:37)
    at core.js:123
    at JSTimers.js:289

On:

    "react": "16.9.0",
    "react-native": "0.61.3",
    "react-native-iap": "^4.3.0",

[hyochan]

@tulpn Looks like you've not correctly installed our module since consumeAllItemsAndroid should be working fine.

[roots-ai]

@hyochan Didn't work for me.

[hyochan]

@roots-ai What version are you using? Also, please refers to the code we've provided in example too.

[stephan-rayner]

I ran into this earlier today and after digging through the code I found that a pretty straight-forward option is to call finishTransaction(purchase, true)

There is a more complete code snippet below.

import * as IAP from "react-native-iap"

...

const App = () => {
  
  ...

  useEffect(() => {
    const checkCurrentPurchases = async (purchase) => {
      if (purchase) {
        const receipt = purchase.transactionReceipt
        if (receipt) {
          try {
            const isConsumable = true // if we were dealing with non-consumables this would be false but we aren't.
            const ackResult = await IAP.finishTransaction(purchase, isConsumable)
            console.info(`Transaction Completed Successfully ${JSON.stringify(ackResult)}`)
          } catch (ackError) {
            console.warn(`Error finishing transaction ${ackError}`)
          }
        }
      }
    }
    checkCurrentPurchases(currentPurchase)
  }, [currentPurchase])

  ...
  
}

I hope this helps someone. 🙂

[noumantahir]

seems consumeAllPurchasesAndroid() is no longer support, for new purchases finishTransaction(product, isConsumable) seems to work well

However, I have facing the already owned error for already purchased items... any ideas ...?

[kaushil111]

Facing the same issue. Is there a way to flush already owned items?

[MHB2011]

@kaushil111 I was able to consume/flush them like this

  try {
    await RNIap.initConnection();
    const availablePurchases = await RNIap.getAvailablePurchases();

    availablePurchases.forEach((purchase) => {
      finishTransaction(purchase, true);
    });
  } catch (error) {
    console.warn(
      "Failed to connect to IAP and finish all available transactions"
    );
  }

[kaushil111]

That worked! Thanks!

[usmanabid94]

@kaushil111 I was able to consume/flush them like this

  try {
    await RNIap.initConnection();
    const availablePurchases = await RNIap.getAvailablePurchases();

    availablePurchases.forEach((purchase) => {
      finishTransaction(purchase, true);
    });
  } catch (error) {
    console.warn(
      "Failed to connect to IAP and finish all available transactions"
    );
  }

You are a savior it worked like a charm (Y)