Determine if auto-renew status or not

[lahivee]

Hi,

when receiving the DID_CHANGE_RENEWAL_STATUS event, how do you know if it is auto-renewing or not?
(for both Apple and Google?)

I did not find any methods or properties on the PurchaseEventContract.

Thank you

[imdhemy]

Hi @lahivee ,

Firstly,
The event names are named after the notification types named by each provider.
Google does not send a DID_CHANGE_RENEWAL_STATUS notification, but Apple does, as shown in the configuration section.

Kindly, check the following links to find the correct event to handle:

• For Google
• For Apple

To handle the subscription auto-renewal:

For Google, I suggest using SUBSCRIPTION_RENEWED:

'eventListeners' => [
    SubscriptionRenewed::class => [YourAwesomeListener::class],
],

For Apple, I suggest using DID_RENEW and INTERACTIVE_RENEWAL. Check the provided links for more information.

'eventListeners' => [
    InteractiveRenewal::class => [YourAwesomeListener::class],
    DidRenew::class => [YourAwesomeListener::class],
],

DID_CHANGE_RENEWAL_STATUS

Apple says,

DID_CHANGE_RENEWAL_STATUS
Indicates a change in the subscription renewal status. In the JSON response, check auto_renew_status_change_date_ms to know the date and time of the last status update. Check auto_renew_status to know the current renewal status

Make sure you are using imdhemy/laravel-purchases of version: 0.8.6:

Inside your event listener handle() method:

class DidChangeRenewalStatusListener
{
    /**
     * @param DidChangeRenewalStatus $event
     */
    public function handle(DidChangeRenewalStatus $event): void
    {
        $isAutoRenewal = $event->isAutoRenewal();
        $changeDate = $event->getAutoRenewStatusChangeDate();
        
        // ...
    }
}

[lahivee]

Thank you for the update @imdhemy

I think this addition in 0.8.6 was important because Apple docs state that DID_CHANGE_RENEWAL_STATUS is also used to cancel a subscription:

"User disabled subscription auto-renewal in the App Store account’s Subscriptions settings, effectively canceling the subscription"
(Source: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreservernotifications/notification_type)

I will experiment with this as soon as I can and really appreciate you for this package and your maintainer efforts!