sandbox receipt has wrong "expire date"

Hello!


I'm trying the new "free trial" periods for renewable subscriptions in my sandbox environment.

I've two different IAPs:

A) 1 month auto renewal with 1 month free trial

B) 1 month auto renewal with 14 days free trial

The problem is: in my sandbox environment the receipt from Apple has very strange expiration dates for IAP B (14 days trial):



This is a screenshot for IAP A (5 minutes delay, as expected)

This is a screenshot for IAP B (6 HOURS delay)


Am I missing something? Is this a bug?


Thanks for your help!

Adding link to image!
http://imgur.com/a/mwnkG

14 days is not documented.


For 14 days, what were you expecting?

Note that table 3.1 has the follwoing information:


Table 3-1 Subscription durations for testing

Actual duration Test duration

1 week 3 minutes

1 month 5 minutes

2 months 10 minutes

3 months 15 minutes

6 months 30 minutes

1 year 1 hour


https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/LanguagesUtilities/Conceptual/iTunesConnectInAppPurchase_Guide/Chapters/TestingInAppPurchases.html

Hello!


since 1 month translates to 5 minutes, I would expect 14 days to translate roughtly to 2 or 3 minutes.


I get this is not documented, but that relates to the duration of the subscription, not the free trial duration.

In the past I was able to have 1 month subscription period and 7 days of free trial, which is not documented as well, and in the sandbox environment the free trial period lasted for a very reasonable 3 minutes long period.


I think it is a little bit strange that 1 year = 1 hours, 14 days = 6 hours?


Thanks for your help!

Accepted Answer

I would expect a time between 3 minutes (1 week) and 5 minutes (one month) - but, again, 14 days is not documented.


I disagree with your statement:

>but that (table 3-1) relates to the duration of the subscription, not the free trial duration

I think Table 3-1 applies to durations whether they be free trial or paid renewal.

>but that (table 3-1) relates to the duration of the subscription, not the free trial duration

I think Table 3-1 applies to durations whether they be free trial or paid renewal.


It seems strange to me, 7 days free trial has always been an option for 1 month subscriptions, but the table does not contain that either.


I would expect to have a table to include all possible scenarios.


What do you suggest?

>What do you suggest?


Tap "Feedback" on that page and ask that they clarify that 'duration' applies both to free trial periods and to subscription periods and that they add a 14 day option and make it 4 minutes.

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