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Play Store - configuring Server to Server notifications

This page describes how to configure manually Server to Server notifications (known as Pub/Sub) with Google Cloud Console and Google Play Console

Connecting the Purchasely Cloud Platform with the App Store

If you get an error when you click on "Connect to Google" from Purchasely console, it means that you did not set the proper service account or the rights you provided for the service account are not sufficient for Purchasely to set up S2S automatically.

You can set it up yourself by following this procedure.

Getting the endpoint URL from the Purchasely Console

  1. Connect to the Purchasely Console
  2. Access the settings of the application you want to connect
  3. Get the value of the parameter Google S 2 S Notifications Endpoint
    Purchasely > Mobile Applications >[YOUR APPLICATION] > Application settings

Creating a new Pub/Sub Topic

  1. Connect to the Google Cloud Platform Console
  2. Create new Pub/Sub topic
    Google Cloud Platform > PubSub > Topics >+ Create new topic
  3. Suggested name for the topic Playstore-S2S-notifications
  4. Leave the encryption set on Key managed by Google
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Complex configuration

If you have multiple applications under the same Google Project, create one topic and one subscription per application.

Creating a subscription on the topic

  1. Access the topic you just created
  2. Click on + Create a subscription
  3. Set the Type of distribution to Push
  4. In the URL field, enter the value of the field Google Play S2S Notifications Endpoint retrieved from the Purchasely Console
  5. Set no expiration date
  6. Set the confirmation delay to 60 seconds
  7. Set Messages conservation to 7 days
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Multiple endpoints

To receive S2S notifications on mutiple endpoints, you can create another subscription linked to the same topic.

Adding a publisher to the topic

  1. Add a new Pub/Sub Editor to the topic in the Google Cloud Platform Console
    Google Cloud Platform > PubSub > Topics >[Playstore-S2S-Notifications] >+ Add principal
  2. Copy & paste the following value [email protected] in the member field
  3. Set the role to Pub/Sub Publisher

Play Store configuration

  1. Connect to the Google Play Console and go to the following section
    Google Play Console >[YOUR APPLICATION] > Monetization > Setup

  2. Type the full name of the topic. It shall have the shape projects/[YOUR PROJECTS]/topics/Playstore-S2S-Notifications

  3. Click on the button Send test notification.
    You can send several notifications at the same time

  4. Click on Save changes

  5. Check the good reception of the test notification at the topic level

    in the Google Cloud Platform Console
    Google Cloud Platform > Topics > Googleplay-S2S-Notifications

  6. Check the good reception of the test notification at the subscription level

    in the Google Cloud Platform Console
    Google Cloud Platform > Subscriptions > Purchasely-Subscriptions