Hi all, currently we are doing integration test with InApp purchase with Apple Store Server Notification. We received the transaction 30sec later after the successful purchase. Is this because we are on Sandbox Env? Will this be realtime on production?
In general, for a variety of reasons, you should not rely on App Store Server Notifications arriving to your server in realtime. While we don't target specific latencies, we generally work to send notifications within a few seconds of the underlying event occurring, for most cases.
If scenarios where it’s 30sec after the event is an issue, please share more details on the scenario and the what problem you need addressed.
I am trying to figure this out as well. My scenario is that I want to use the App Store Server Notifications as the definitive source for determining whether a user is subscribed to our service. Therefore, after they subscribe, it would be nice if the server notification happened in real time as stated, so that their status changes to subscribed on the server as soon as possible. Otherwise there will be a 30 second delay between the user subscribing, and the server knowing that the user has subscribed. But maybe this isn't how these server notifications are supposed to be used?
@ronjoy did you go ahead on to production? Did you notice any difference? Was it near realtime?