I have developed a chrome extension, I am trying to integrate in-app subscriptions using google.payments.inapp APIs, however while testing I found that if user cancels in-app subscription, the status from API shows ACTIVE instead of CANCELLED. Below is code that I am using to fetch purchased in-app subscriptions by user
google.payments.inapp.getPurchases({
'parameters': {env: "prod"},
'success': ami_onLicenseUpdate,
'failure': ami_onLicenseUpdateFailed
});
I am always receiving below response on success, even if user has cancelled subscription
{"response":{"details":[{"kind":"chromewebstore#payment","itemId":"xxxxxxxxx","sku":"xxxxxx_01","createdTime":"1509281736005","state":"ACTIVE"},{"kind":"chromewebstore#payment","itemId":"xxxxxxx","sku":"xxxxxxx_02","createdTime":"1508736958450","state":"ACTIVE"}]}}
How do I know if user has cancelled subscription?
After doing some research and testing, I found that if user is in subscription's trial period and user cancels subscription, google payment api will return subscription as active and once that trial period is over, it will not return any license related information for that subscription in api response. This way we can identify if user has active subscription or no.
One more note, for those who work with subscriptions.
Received from Chrome Web Store team:
After the cancellation, a user still will be able to access to your item until the next billing cycle starts and the extension should stop working after the subscription period is over (Monthly or Yearly). Therefore, the API is still responding back as "Active" right after the cancellation was initiated.
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Is there any way to implement a Webhook for automatic update of subscriptions on server side, in nodejs for example, for situations such as: the user renewed or canceled his subscription?
Currently I save the subscription data in my Database after purchase and use the Google Developers API to verify that it has been renewed or canceled when necessary.
However, for some Administrator routines I need to check all subscriptions at once and this includes calling the Google API for each one. This process is slow and can take a long time.
I could create a method that checks and updates all subscriptions according to the Google API response, and leave this process running through a Cronjob every day at night. I believe it will work, but a server-side Webhook would be the ideal solution.
Something which automatically notifies my server as soon as there is a change to a subscription so that I can update it in my DB immediately.
Found the answer. We can use Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to subscribe to topics and receive real-time notifications when a subscription change.
All steps are described in detail in their documentation: https://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/getting-ready#configure-rtdn
I need to get list of attendees of a MSTeams meeting call, and their times by an Azure Application.
For now, i've tried 3 different approaches without success:
Registering a Bot
Retrieve the attendee report of an event
callRecord subscription
In more detail:
Registering a Bot
MembersAdded event works as described in the documentation for v4.7 of the Bots SDK, ie. when a new user is added to a chat or a team, webhook is called, which does not work for online meetings. However for v3 of the Bots SDK there is a mention:
The conversationUpdate event with the membersAdded object in the
payload is sent when a user is added to a private scheduled meeting.
The event details will be sent even when anonymous users join the
meeting.
I've not tried this version of SDK, but i think it has the same behaviour as v4.7 because i don't see any request comming to my bot's webhook when an user joins a meeting.
Moreover, when i request Members of a meeting on message event to a bot by invoking:
var members = await TeamsInfo.GetMembersAsync(turnContext);
i get a list of team/chat members where a meeting is created but not the list of attendees of a meeting for the current time.
Retrieve the attendee report of an event
By this request, I can get the list of attenees, but only for live events.
However Teams clients (in preview mode now) can get this report for ordinary meeting with the full history of who/when entered/leaved a meeting with even guest names(!).
Anyway, this method has the following disadvantages:
As mentioned in the Get onlineMeeting and according to the Allow applications to access online meetings on behalf of a user, a Tenant administrator have to invoke PS command Grant-CsApplicationAccessPolicy for each meeting organiser, to grand my app permision to download this report
Administrators must create an application access policy and grant it to a user, authorizing the
app configured in the policy to retrieve an
online meeting on behalf of that user (user ID specified in the
request path).
Uses Beta version of the GraphAPI, so it can't be used in production
callRecord subscription
According to the Create subscription, i can subscribe to create and update events of a callRecord, and everything works well - when a meeting call is finished, my notification URL is called in 5-20 minutes, so i can find original meeting by callRecord.joinWebUrl and Get onlineMeeting:Example 3. Seems it's most suitable method for me, but has the following disadvantages:
Guests cannot be identified, their names as them passed in MSTeams clients are not reported to callRecord ie. callRecord.Participants[].AddtionalData["guest"].displayName == "Guest user" for any guest (seems like a bug), however entered/leaved information can be found by searching callRecord.Participants[].AddtionalData["guest"].id in callRecord.Sessions[].Segments[].Caller.Identity.AddtionalData["guest"].id
External users cannot be also indentified, callRecord.Participants[].User.DisplayName == "External user" for any external user, however i can retrive tenantId and userId, but still cannot get user's profile because my app has to have Directory.Read.All permision in that tenant, and it's not possible for every tenant.
PS. I can setup MSTeams to do not allow guests or external users, then it works partially well, because each user has to have Teams license assigned, and there is NO login page appears during joining a meeting, just an error page saying that meeting does not allow guest or external users, so the user should find a link to login to a tenant, which is not obvious in MSTeams Web Client, but possible.
PSS. In the Microsoft Teams admin center, i've checked the calling history of an organiser for a meeting with 1 guest, 1 tenant and 1 external and here it is:
Seems for guests, displayName is not stored at all, however for an external user there AAD email is stored (this is AAD guest user ie has '#EXT#' in his principal name, and has the same email as on the picture), however i'm not sure from where it resolved from by Azure - either from external tenant AAD or my tenant AAD for external user, because Azure has access to both.
So, maybe you know a method to get attendees and their times in a meeting call ?
Thank you for your suggestion/advice/reply !
Thanks for reaching us!
Teams by default generate attendees report and meeting report after completion of meeting call. We can able to see the list of attendees and the report. But at present we don't have any API to fetch list of attendees and their timings.
As this feature is not available at present, could you please raise an UserVoice if this needs to be consider as a future request.
We are using Stripe subscriptions to handle payment for a SaaS application we are building
Currently, our development team has implemented the following logic:
User enters card details into Stripe elements UI as the final step of signup to our app.
If the credit card is deemed valid by Stripe Elements, the signup process to our app completes successfully.
A stripe customer & subscription is created.
Our server processes the webhook from stripe to confirm if the initial payment succeeds/fails
The problem we have is that the customers card isn't being charged until after the signup process to our app is complete. In some cases this results in a poor user experience, where the user is told by our signup process that they have signed up successfully, then they receive a 'payment failed' email from our software if the stripe charge doesn't succeed.
What is the best way to handle this signup flow? Since we are relying on the stripe webhook to tell us if the charge has succeeded - a suggestion has been made that we could monitor for the webhook response (eg. every 1 second, in a loop) and confirm payment has succeeded before completing the user signup for our app. The flow would then become:
User enters card details into Stripe elements UI as the final step of signup to our app.
If the credit card is deemed valid by Stripe Elements, we create the stripe customer / subscription
Monitor (in a loop) for a response from the Stripe webhook to confirm if payment was successful
The signup process to our app completes successfully (if charge is successful), or fails if the charge is unsuccessful.
This also seems like a bandaid solution - what is the best way to handle our issue?
I have noticed there is an option to use 'pre-authorisation' of a card, but I'd prefer not to go down this road if it leads to extra items on a customers bank statement.
This seems like something that would be very common - we would greatly appreciate any advice
Thanks
The most straightforward solution seems to be that your integration isn't waiting for the payment to complete.
With Subscription, you can wait synchronously on your backend for a status: active on your backend, before returning a response to your frontend. You don't even need to poll for the webhook response, cause your backend creates a Customer, creates a Subscription, and returns that response to your frontend, to show an error or success.
(waiting for webhooks is good but when your integration is manually starting the Subscription, you don't necessarily need webhooks)
From the frontend perspective, your user sees a loading spinner, until your backend is able to say "payment successful, you are signed up!"
I am trying to create a basic subscription service on my site and I am not sure of a standard way to deal with subscriptions. I'm sure I could hack something together but I'm just wondering if there is a suggested way.
So I have created a billing plan and activated it.
I have a subscribe button on my site that creates a billing agreement referring to the billing plan created in step 1 and redirects the user to the PayPal website were they can login and accept the subscription.
Once the user completes the actions on the PayPal website they are returned back to my site with a token were I then execute the agreement using the returned token from PayPal as per the documentation.
So I guess after these steps the subscription is created for that user, is active and the first payment is made immediately.
In my database, I have a field for each user names subscribed and it's value is a boolean which I set to true once they are returned to my site and the execute command is successful.
My problem is keeping this boolean value up to date for each user as this is the value I check to see if they can access the content.
Canceling - I can provide a cancel button on my site to cancel their subscription and when successful I can set the value to false. But what if they cancel through the PayPal website? I think there is a webhook names BILLING.SUBSCRIPTION.CANCELLED which may send me the agreement ID and If I save it in my database I can see which user it belongs to and set their subscription to false.
After the first month has passed and the next payment is due, is there a webhook sent for a successful payment or a failed payment so I can then set the subscription value accordingly? I see there is a webhook named PAYMENT.SALE.COMPLETED but I don't know if this fired for a successful payment and PAYMENT.SALE.DENIED for a failed payment. If these webhooks exist for subscriptions I imagine it should be a simple solution to keeping this subscribed value up to date.
Hope this made some sense.
This is a basic functionality of subscription so I must be missing something!
How can I programmaticaly cancel a Google Wallet subscription? Obviously when the user cancels their account with our service we need to cancel their subscription, instead of having to ask them to go to their Google Wallet console and cancel it themselves or us having to do it manually for every cancellation from our console?
[EDIT] Just to clarify, the question is about Google Wallet subscriptions (digital goods)
See above note, as I understand the only way for a cancellation of payment is a manual one, so when a user cancels our service they either have to go and cancel the payment themselves, or for us to do it manually.
Users can view the status of all of their subscriptions and cancel them if necessary from the My Apps screen in the Play Store app. Currently, the In-app Billing API does not provide support for programatically canceling subscriptions from inside the purchasing app.
More details can be found at Subscription Cancellation