Unable to schedule a price change for an in-app purchase

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Hi,

I'm trying to schedule a price change for an in-app purchase using the new ASC 2.3 API. Here is my request payload for the inAppPurchasePriceSchedules endpoint:

{
    "data": {
        "type": "inAppPurchasePriceSchedules",
        "relationships": {
            "manualPrices": {
                "data": [
                    {
                        "type": "inAppPurchasePrices",
                        "id": "eyJzIjoiMTQzMTk5MjE5MiIsInQiOiJBRkciLCJwIjoiMTAxMjcifQ"
                    }
                ]
            },
            "inAppPurchase": {
                "data": {
                    "type": "inAppPurchases",
                    "id": "1431992192"
                }
            },
            "baseTerritory": {
                "data": {
                    "type": "territories",
                    "id": "USA"
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "included": [
        {
            "id": "eyJzIjoiMTQzMTk5MjE5MiIsInQiOiJBRkciLCJwIjoiMTAxMjcifQ",
            "relationships": {
                "inAppPurchaseV2": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "inAppPurchases",
                        "id": "1431992192"
                    }
                },
                "inAppPurchasePricePoint": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "inAppPurchasePricePoints",
                        "id": "eyJzIjoiMTQzMTk5MjE5MiIsInQiOiJBRkciLCJwIjoiMTAxMjcifQ"
                    }
                }
            },
            "type": "inAppPurchasePrices",
            "attributes": {}
        },
        {
            "type": "territories",
            "id": "USA"
        }
    ]
}

The API returns the following error response:

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "id": "e467f4e4-eb82-42b9-9a32-28d38b47881f",
      "status": "409",
      "code": "ENTITY_ERROR.BASE_TERRITORY_INTERVAL_REQUIRED",
      "title": "There is a problem with the request entity",
      "detail": "There must be at least one manual price for the base territory.",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "&#x2F;data&#x2F;relationships&#x2F;manualPrices"
      }
    }
  ]
}

I probably need to create another relation between manualPrices and territory. But I have not found anything in the documentation in this regard.

It would be great if the documentation could be improved with some sample requests and parameter descriptions. For example, there are a lot of "id" properties without any explanation what the identifier means and how to retrieve it.

Thank you for your help!

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Answer 1

There is nothing wrong with my request payload. I've realized that this API endpoint does not work with in-app purchases which are not yet cleared for sale. I've used one of these for testing, and that caused the issue. A clear error message would be nice though.

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FelixII

There was an error in my code snippet after all. I didn't realize that price points have unique identifiers for each country. My request used USA as the base territory but included a price point identifier (eyJz...) from a different country. To avoid this mistake, set a territory filter when querying the available price points for an in-app purchase.

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