[DEPRECATED] How to Add In-App Purchases & Subscriptions to your Ionic App with Glassfy

[@josecoque1755]

Thanks for existing Simon! Lifesaver as always

[@galaxies_dev]

Thank you José!

[@CORONITAWITHLIME]

glassfy seems brilliant! Super simple. I had a nightmare with IAPs last year in an app i was developing

[@galaxies_dev]

Yeah it is - hope you can integrate it into your app!

[@AnkitMaheshwariIn]

Hi, thanks for the details. How to get transactionId after purchase is done?

[@kamo-tomoki]

Hi,Simon! Thanks for your helpful tutorial! Could you tell me where can I get the tool that you use to debug at around 17:28? I'm really want to use this amazing tool!!

[@galaxies_dev]

It's called inspect: inspect.dev/

[@kamo-tomoki]

@@galaxies_dev Thank you so much for your replying!! I'm looking forward to your new videos!

[@beerisvictory]

Thanks this video was a gamechanger for me. awesome. Used it in my new book tracker app

[@galaxies_dev]

Awesome!! Please send me a link to your app when it's done :)

[@AGUNGKAYA]

Sir I heard glassy was replaced with adapty. Is it so different in term of applying it in our ionic app?

[@Adidumas1]

great video. I uploaded the bundle into the Play Store, Internal Testing and configured all the Glassfy and Google Play stuff and even on my phone I get the "Not supported on web.". Any ideea? Thanks

[@picass0]

is the loading of the payment modal shorter in production? it takes a while in sandbox😅

[@galaxies_dev]

Yeah I think it is - but it takes time in basically all apps that I use!

[@picass0]

yes, i reached out to their team to see if this is a known issue.

[@rojotv122]

Great tutorial as always! I'm seriously considering using it and also being a Europe company is pretty convinient!

[@galaxies_dev]

You should give it a try and yes, being a EU company makes this really great.

[@snargol2974]

amazing ! Thanks glassfy, i ll use this service 😄

[@galaxies_dev]

Glad you like it - make sure to tell them you cam from my video :D

[@yuliankarapetkov]

Since you can't cancel a subscription programmatically, can you open the Subscriptions native menu programmatically instead?

[@galaxies_dev]

I think on iOS you always have to go into your account settings to cancel a subscription!

[@yuliankarapetkov]

@@galaxies_dev thanks for the response! I appreciate it! I guess the same applies for Android? I can't seem to find a programmatic way to do this.

[@dksanket]

@simon big fan of you and your content.. please please please do a video on referral tracker in an ionic application no.. Struggling with it from past one week.. I know you are super busy with many things, even if you could just help me with any documentation, it would be a great great help.. And thank you so much for the all your content, it's making our life so much easier..

[@galaxies_dev]

Thanks for following and I'll add it to my list Sanket!

[@dksanket]

@@galaxies_dev thank you so much Simon

[@Mvasco91]

Hi Simon, amazing video, I tried to implemented in my app, but I can't get skus Array, always comes empty, any idea why?

[@DhiaAkermi-yg4nl]

Have you managed to fix this problem please? if yes, how? because I'm facing the same issue!

[@reyco1]

Why is it so slow though? Have you seen it working in production?

[@galaxies_dev]

What exactly is slow? IAP are always a bit slow in my experience.

[@picass0]

the loading of the apple pay, normally it is 2-4 seconds. using this it is 8-12. have you tested it in production?

[@natanaelmedina2232]

Using deep links to redirect to payment platform within my ionic app dont violate the apple guidelines to deploy my app to app store?

[@galaxies_dev]

I'm not sure about that, Apple is very strict with their in app payment policies!

[@BogdanNicovski]

Great tutorial @Simon! How to enable In-App purchases for IOS if we are not working on Mac? Thanks

[@66marten]

have you found a solution?

[@saq.ib01]

How can i do something like Add to cart? can i buy 1 item quantity wise? Like 1 have a shirt priced at $5. if user wants to buy 3 shirts how can i do that?

[@saq.ib01]

Hi Simon, How can i receive purchase and Auto Re-new events on my server side to manage subscriptions? How can i save payment details.

[@galaxies_dev]

Glassfy has some webhooks and a new feature coming soon which will make it super easy to sync that - stay tuned for video coming soon!

[@saq.ib01]

@@galaxies_dev Thanks. Waiting for new video.

[@saq.ib01]

@@galaxies_dev video?? also add upgrade and downgrade in tutorial.

[@elydevhn]

It’s amazing! Thanks 🙏🏼

[@galaxies_dev]

Happy to help, I think so too - let the Glassfy team know you came from my video :)

[@nataliaortiz4174]

Hi Simon, Thanks a lot for your videos, they are really useful!. is it possible to use glassify without ionic? I converted my angular website to an ios app using Capacitor, and now I need to add in-app purchases.

[@galaxies_dev]

Sure Ionic is mostly UI stuff - the Capacitor part is important, so yes you can use Capacitor+Glassfy!

[@samurebuelta]

do you know if it is compatible with ios 16? the in app purchase 2 library is giving me problems on ios 16

[@galaxies_dev]

You might have to reach out to Glassfy, but they were really quick to update their Capacitor plugin last time!

[@marekblaha9429]

hi simon, thanks for your tutorial, love your videos... do you think glassfy is secure enought to use in fintech app ? thanks

[@galaxies_dev]

I do think so but to confirm I would recommend you reach out to their team directly - they are super friendly!

[@jingguoca]

Hi Simon, I am using In App Purchases 2 and Fovea for the validation, do you think it’s safe to move to glassfy? Or is it necessary to do that for now? What do you think?

[@galaxies_dev]

Glassfy is not required, but it's a great way to use validation and get better stats about your purchases!

[@jingguoca]

@@galaxies_dev thanks

[@jingguoca]

@@alexkudelka ok, thanks, I will try that.

[@reacaosistemas5746]

Amazing content. Thanks

[@galaxies_dev]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@MakeAppswithDanny]

Hi Simon. Great video, you definitely sold me on Glassfy for my subsription-based app! I got this working very easily with iOS. But for Android, I can't for the life of my get the SKU's to be returned. I did all the config / google cloud stuff over 36 hours ago, set up the internal testing track & License test email addresses, signed into Google Play on my test device with a test email. Still no SKU's. Did you have any issues getting the SKU's with Android, and do you have any suggestions? Thanks 👍

[@MakeAppswithDanny]

The issue was I was using the Play Store "Base Plan" ID in Glassfy, rather than the overall "Subscription" ID. I must agree on Glassfy support, Marco has been incredibly helpful!

[@DhiaAkermi-yg4nl]

@@MakeAppswithDanny can you please tell me how to fix it exactly because I tried the subscription ID and still not getting the SKU's please I need your help if possible!

[@MakeAppswithDanny]

@@DhiaAkermi-yg4nl It could be a bunch of different things, as there are so many variables within the setup. I would recommend just starting a chat with the team (on the website). They have been incredibly helpful to me. They even updated the Glassfy plugin after I noticed an issue with it 👍

[@bradchellingworth5973]

This seems so much better than what I've used in the past. I really appreciate your videos, the only thing I find problematic is the fact that you always use angular and typescript which adds a lot of code that only exists to make typescript or angular work and is very distracting from the code required to make this feature work. May i suggest using a less intrusive framework like vue and without typescript so we can focus purely on the implementation of this plugin and not the implementation of the framework, if that makes sense. Once we know how to implement the plugin, if people want to wrap it in typescript and use it in angular or react or whatever, they can.

[@galaxies_dev]

Yeah I'm now also using other frameworks like React and maybe even Vue in the future!

[@DevarshiDavessj4]

what if i don't want to use glassfy?

[@GosuMania]

Hello Simon, you can make a video on how to migrate to the new Google Identity Services on an Ionic Application please!

[@jordanwillian9958]

I was left with a doubt: what exactly does the restore method do? Can subscriptions be canceled by him? Sorry, but the Portuguese translation of the documentation doesn't make that very clear.

[@galaxies_dev]

I think this is usually required by Apple if a user deletes the app or installs it again, you need a way to restore the purchases from before!

[@JosueLMM]

One question, if it is implemented Glassfy, Apple will no longer bother with the fact that the app must have In-App Purchases?

[@galaxies_dev]

You are using the native Apple IAP, it's just mapped to Glassfy!

[@purjan1]

Please make video on audio and video calling with WebRTC in ionic app

[@galaxies_dev]

Yeah that's still a hot and open topic!

[@purjan1]

@@galaxies_dev yes Please , currently i am also trying and need help

[@purjan1]

@@galaxies_dev please make a video on it i am trying a lot but going through a lot of errors please made a video on that audio and video call with webrtc in ionic that works fine for android and ios

[@saq.ib01]

@@galaxies_dev Still waiting.

[@nyambe]

Hello Simon. Off topic a bit. Should I use ionic components like card or should I style my own ? In there any advantage to using ionic-card ionic-card-content etc, besides the pre stying?

[@galaxies_dev]

Well you automatically get the adaptive styling for iOS/Android with Ionic components. If you want the same UI across platforms, you could use your own styling instead.

[@nyambe]

@@galaxies_dev I see! good to know. That can be important.

[@Gustavo-bi4hv]

Hello, Simon. Amazing content! Could you help to understand a speific situation? Let's supose the user has an e-mail "X", purchase a subscription and log in my app with the e-mail "X". But, if he logs in another account using e-mail "Y", isn't Glassfy return that he also have the product already? But he should not be allowed to use it in email "Y", because he purchased with "X". Sorry if its confuse. Hope you can help me. Thanks.

[@corysmc]

I've got the same question - wondering how to connect a paid subscription to a specific dataset in my database. Seems like I can't get access to webhooks without upgrading my glassfy account 🤔unless I'm missing something

[@nitzanravhon2310]

Hi Simon! it appears that Glassfy will be discontinued starting end of 2024. Do you have any alternatives for handling iOS and Android purchases with Ionic? P.S. Your videos are amazing, keep up the great work!

[@galaxies_dev]

Just heard about it yesterday, still have to figure it out myself! Usually I would recommend RevenueCat!

[@nitzanravhon2310]

@@galaxies_dev thanks man, will check it out

[@Matheus_1582]

Como iniciar uma aplicação com vite e anguar npm init ng project

[@galaxies_dev]

Haven't tried that so far!

[@Gustavo-bi4hv]

Simon, how does Glassfy handle testing/demo situations? I watched the video and could not find anything regards to that. Or this should be configured on Apple Store/Google Play store?

[@galaxies_dev]

I think you should simply use a testing account for iOS/Android like I did in the video!

[@loicfontaine8584]

Hello Simon, how can we prevent multiple account to purchase the same subscription on the same device ? Thank you for your answer.

[@galaxies_dev]

Hmm I think you might have to handle this through your own backend logic!

[@davidelias7796]

Where the source code?

[@galaxies_dev]

In the tutorial linked below the video!

[@GDevExplorer]

remove this video. This service is not working anymore

[@moavizqureshi3095]

[Glassfy SDK] 🛑 API [e00] Error: Error Domain=GYErrorDomain Code=1011 "The receipt could not be authenticated." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=The receipt could not be authenticated.} Thanks For the tutorial simon . Payment done but getting this error. Am not able to understand why this is coming.