cordova-plugin-purchase

Cordova Purchase Plugin

In-App Purchases for Cordova

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Summary

This plugin allows In-App Purchases to be made from Cordova, Ionic and Capacitor applications.

It lets you handle in-app purchases on many platforms with a single codebase.

Features

	AppStore (iOS / macOS)	Google Play	Windows 8	Windows 10 / UWP	Braintree (iOS / Android)
consumables		✅			✅
non consumables		✅
subscriptions		✅
restore purchases		✅			✅
receipt validations		✅			✅
custom payments					✅

Supported platforms

• iOS version 6.0 or higher.
  • with Braintree
• Android version 2.2 (API level 8) or higher
  • with Google Play client version 3.9.16 or higher
  • with Braintree

Installation

Install the plugin (Cordova)

cordova plugin add "https://github.com/j3k0/cordova-plugin-purchase.git#v13"

Recommended plugins

Install cordova-plugin-network-information (click for details).

Sometimes, the plugin cannot connect to the app store because it has no network connection. It will then retry either:

• periodically after a certain amount of time;
• when the device fires an 'online' event.

The cordova-plugin-network-information plugin is required in order for the 'online' event to be properly received in the Cordova application. Without it, this plugin will only be able to use the periodic check to determine if the device is back online.

Install cordova-plugin-advanced-http (click for details).

When making receipt validation requests, the purchase plugin uses, by default, the browser's ajax capabilities. This sometime causes issues with CORS restriction. CORS also imposes an extra back-and-forth with the server (the CORS preflight request) to ensure the server allows for such request to be made. By installing the advanced-http plugin, you get rid of those issue and benefit from the extra feature of the the plugin, like advanced authentication option. Read the advanced-http plugin documentation for details.

Setup your Application

See Setup iOS Applications and Setup Android Applications.

Getting Started

If you wish to learn more about In-App Purchases (IAP), you'll find a good overview on the subject from the various platforms documentation:

• Apple:
  • In-App Purchase Introduction
  • Auto-Renewable Subscriptions
• Google:
  • In-App Purchases Best Practices
  • Billing Overview
• Microsoft
  • Monetize with In-App Purchases

All platforms share the same concepts, so they are a good reads in all cases.

To ease the beginning of your journey into the intimidating world of In-App Purchase with Cordova, we wrote a guide which hopefully will help you get things done: Guide: Cordova In-App Purchase Plugin - v13.0

In short, you'll have two main tasks to accomplish:

1. Setup your application and In-App Products on AppStore, Play or Azure platforms using their respective web interfaces.
2. Add In-App Purchase code to your application.

For platform setup, the wiki is a good starting point. There's a specific page for the [version 13] release(./wiki/Version-13).

Extra Resources

For iOS

• In-App Purchase Configuration Guide for AppStore Connect
  • Learn how to set up and manage In-App Purchases with AppStore Connect.

Extensions

• Braintree SDK
  • Add the Braintree SDK to your application, enable Braintree on iOS and Android.
• Simple Non-Renewing Subscriptions
  • The easiest way to integrate purchase into an app that only needs a non-renewing subscription.

Subscriptions

For proper subscription support, you need a receipt validation server. You can implement your own or use Iaptic's receipt validation service.

Contribute

Contributors:

• Jean-Christophe Hoelt, Author
• Josef Fröhle, Support
• Guillaume Charhon, (now defunct) v1 for android
• Matt Kane, initial iOS code
• Mohammad Naghavi, original unification attempt
• Dave Alden @dpa99c (Apple-hosted IAPs for iOS)

Sponsors

• 
  For sponsoring most of JC's work on the plugin.
• 
  Ionic Framework Team (http://ionicframework.com/)
• 
  For sponsoring the UWP platform.
• Maxwell C. Moore (MCM Consulting, LLC)
• Justin Noel @calendee
• Those guys

Licence

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2014-, Jean-Christophe HOELT and contributors

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE.