Play Store - Configuring In-App Purchases

In this page, In-App Purchases refer to One Time Purchases (as opposed to In-App Subscriptions which involve recurring payments).

In-App Purchases let you offer additional features in your apps including digital goods, and premium content.

Different types of In-App Purchases are:

1. Consumables: this type of In-App Purchases can be purchased several times by a same user
   Can be used to model virtual currencies (e.g. a stack of coins) or a movie rental
2. Non consumables: this type of In-App Purchases can be purchased only once by a same user. They keep it their entire life.
   Can be used to model the purchase of a movie or a race track in a video game

Creating In-App Purchases

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Non consumable and Lifetime In-App Purchases

There is no concept of Non Consumable or Lifetime product in the Google Play Console. A Non consumable or a Lifetime product is just an In-App Purchases which is never "consumed" by the app.

By matching the proper type in the Purchasely Console, you will configure the behavior of the SDK. In full mode:

• the SDK will consume In-App Purchases configured as consumable, right after the transaction was processed,
• and do nothing for In-App Purchases configured as Non consumable.

If you would like to create a Life time product for your Android users, you can create a consumable plan as shown in the following steps and mark it as Non consumable as its type in the Purchasely Products and Plans section.

Now, let us see how to create a Consumable product in Google Play Console:

1. Login to your Google Play Console and select your app

2. In the following screen, navigate to the following section: Monetize > Products > In-app products

3. Click on the Create product button

4. In the Create in-app product page, provide the
   • Product ID: A unique ID for your in-app product.
     This is the ID you have to map to the Plan in the Purchasely Console in the Products and plans section.
   • Name: A short name of the item (up to 55 characters, but we recommend limiting titles to 25 characters to display properly in all contexts).
   • Description: A long description of the item (up to 200 characters).

5. Its time to set the price for this product

6. Type the price and click on the Apply prices button.

7. You can then choose whether this In-App Purchase can be purchased multiple times or not in a single transaction by ticking the checkbox Multiple quantity