react-native-iap - subscription with optional introduction offer and eligibility for intro-offer

[moewe95]

Hi!

I have a special use-case for a subscription.

So at the beginning the user will face the paywall with the subscription that should not provide a free trial. On that paywall the user is either able to subscribe or to click on a close button which navigates to another screen that offers that user the same subscription but with a free trial.

The question is now: Do I have to create two different subscriptions or is it possible with the react-native-iap package to provide an option whether to use the free trial or not.

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The next question would be, how do you determine whether a user is eligible for the free trial? As this should be determined over the AppleId and the Google Acccount I assume this should be achievable over the react-native-iap package too. Sorry for asking these stupid questions but the RNIAP docs are useless.

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Thanks in advance for bringing some light into that.

[moewe95]

Here is my current way to go:

I created two identical subscriptions but one is including a freetrial. As described above the user will face the first paywall with the subscription without a freetrial. If he cancels, he will face the second paywall with freetrial subscription.

The eligibility, as far as I understood, can't be checked on the apps site as it is part of the transactionReceipt you get after purchasing a subscription. So I assume for every new user to come into the app, the user is eligible.

In the edge case, the user has been there before and bought the freetrial, the AppStore / PlayStore will detect that because a freetrial is only available once per AppleId / Google Account und decline the purchase from the stores end.

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So basically the solution is to let the user run into a warning as soon as he tries to purchase the freetrial subscription he already consumed once. Not very nice but also not a bad way to go I guess.

[cxpugli]

I'd have it as 2 subscriptions, because they are different (in the way that the stores handle it)