subscription

in a nutshell: Can I work with the Google Play Android Developer API from server-side without providing any app in the play store? Background: I'm working on a project which provides apps with monthly subscriptions. The coresponding data of each subscription (purchase token, date etc) gets stored in the backend database. Now I want to create a cronjob that iterates through each of these datasets.And for each subscription I'd like to contact the Google API to retrieve the information if the subscription is still valid or not, and update our database corresponding to the responsed status. For

I want my users to be able to subscribe to a recurring payment (using the express checkout api) The first payment needs to be billed immediately that the user subscribes, and I need to know that they have been successfully billed before granting them access. Is there a straight forward way to do this? I've tried, creating a recurring payment profile with an INITAMT set, however, it's not clear that the user is being billed (when using the sandbox), and there is no txn_id (or the equivalent) being returned to suggest that billing has been done. I do get an IPN confirmation however that comes

I want to remove the existing subscription product from product list. How would I be able to perform so as I didn't found any option on my developer console to delete the subscriptions ? Also if in any way possible it is allowed, then will it have any effect on the existing users who have purchased that subscription when they call for RESTORE_TRANSACTION from their app while communicating with Google Play ? Unfortunately, It's not possible to remove a subscription product from the product list of the developer console. You can just remove the subscription product from the product list offered

after 5 hours of research and reading outdated paypal documentation I finally give up! I need to test a simple paypal subscription button with the paypal sandbox. Button Code: <form action="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick"> <input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="34CXHXVU2J8BY"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/GB/i/btn/btn_subscribeCC_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal — The safer, easier way to pay online." style="border:none;padding:0;height:auto;width:auto">

Folks, I am attempting to verify that auto-renew subscriptions are actually renewing in the sandbox environment. First, it appears that auto-renew subscriptions in sandbox are only valid for 5 minutes. Makes sense. I expect that if I wait for five minutes, then make another call to https://sandbox.itunes.apple.com/verifyReceipt With my receipt data, I should see the subscription renewed with an expiry date another five minutes out. Unfortunately that is not the case. All I see is a response with latest_expired_receipt_info and a status of 21006, which means "This receipt is valid but the