Billing issue notification transaction ID?

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Created Jan ’22

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Does billing issue notification contain unique transaction ID or this transaction ID matches, for example, the last transaction ID in subscription renewal history?

I also didn't find info about:

Can billing issue notification be produced multiple times? With different transaction ID or the same one?

Answered by App Store Commerce Engineer in 702679022

All App Store Server Notifications contain the original_transaction_id and transaction_id but it may not be a new transaction as notifications are sent for events, which may or may not be actual transactions (ie: commonly transactions are buys/renewals/upgrades/refunds).

So for a subscription that has failed to renew, you would receive a notification for this event which will include the original_transaction_id of the subscription and their renewal info.

Lastly this notification is sent when the customers subscription has gone into the Billing Retry state - the state is important, not the individual payment authorization attempts as there is no action to take per attempt. A new event or state change is important, so when they fall they into this state, you would only receive a notification when their state changes: recover, cancel or the billing retry period has expired.

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Jan ’22

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All App Store Server Notifications contain the original_transaction_id and transaction_id but it may not be a new transaction as notifications are sent for events, which may or may not be actual transactions (ie: commonly transactions are buys/renewals/upgrades/refunds).

So for a subscription that has failed to renew, you would receive a notification for this event which will include the original_transaction_id of the subscription and their renewal info.

Lastly this notification is sent when the customers subscription has gone into the Billing Retry state - the state is important, not the individual payment authorization attempts as there is no action to take per attempt. A new event or state change is important, so when they fall they into this state, you would only receive a notification when their state changes: recover, cancel or the billing retry period has expired.

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