I am trying produce an app that requires users to subscribe when creating an account, and can only be used via an active paid subscription.
Unless I am going about this all wrong, I assumed I would want a way to somehow tie their subscription to their in-house account with the app, rather than to their apple-ID.
I actually had come up with a solution to this, very similar to an answer to a similar question posted on stack, by pulling out the original_transaction_id from the receipt and storing that with the user in firebase.
This worked in development, but once I got the app in the app store and downloaded it to test, it got hung up right here....
func verifyPurchaseForNewAccount(_ purchase: RegisteredPurchase) {
NetworkActivityIndicatorManager.NetworkOperationsStarted()
let appleValidator = AppleReceiptValidator(service: .sandbox)
SwiftyStoreKit.verifyReceipt(using: appleValidator, password: sharedSecret) { result in
NetworkActivityIndicatorManager.NetworkOperationFinished()
switch result {
case .success(let receipt):
print("success")
let productId = "com.glossappllc.theglossapp.monthlysubscription"
switch purchase {
case .monthly:
let purchaseResult = SwiftyStoreKit.verifySubscription(
type: .autoRenewable, productId: productId,
inReceipt: receipt,
validUntil: Date()
)
let receiptArray = receipt["receipt"]?["in_app"] as! NSArray
let originalReceipt = receiptArray.firstObject as! NSDictionary
RIGHT HERE, it seems it cannot find the "original_transaction_id".
if let originalTransactionID = originalReceipt["original_transaction_id"] as? String {
print("original transaction ID: ", originalTransactionID)
DataService.ds.REF_USERS.child(self.DBuserID).updateChildValues(["isSubscribed": "true", "purchaseID": originalTransactionID])
self.sendToNewUserFlow()
}
}
case .error(let error):
print("error: ", error.localizedDescription)
if case .noReceiptData = error {
self.refreshReceipt()
}
}
}
}
Is there another way to tie the two accounts together?
Or is there a way to test through Xcode in and environment that more closely resembles production? I know the receipt must still exist, but maybe somehow it is formatted differently?
If I can't test it with a log in xcode it's hard to know why it isn't working anymore...
