Are there cases where a response to an error returned from the AppStore Server API is considered a subscription cancellation by the user?

According to the following document, when the AppStore Server API is executed and the account does not exist, the response "errorCode: 4040001" is returned.

If this response is returned, is it safe to assume that the account has been deleted and treat the subscription as cancelled? Also, please let us know if there are any other error codes other than this error code that can be used to determine that the subscription has been cancelled.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreserverapi/accountnotfounderror

Typically you should be looking for the revocation fields' presence in the signed transaction as an indication that content has been revoked (due to a refund or a family sharing revocation): https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreserverapi/revocationdate

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreserverapi/revocationreason

At this time you can revoke any content that was granted as part of the purchase, e.g. ceasing subscription access or disabling a non-consumable feature unlock. Note that refunds may be reversed in some scenarios, in which case these fields will be removed from the transaction and you should re-enable this content once more. The best way to keep track of refunds and refund reversals is with App Store Server Notifications V2, as we have a notificationType for each of these scenarios (see REFUND and REFUND_REVERSED): https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreservernotifications/notificationtype

Note that for auto-renewable subscriptions, refunds may be granted for renewal purchases other than the current active one. For example, if the user has an active subscription for June (now) and receives a refund for their May (previous month) renewal transaction, you should not disable their access to subscription content, as they still have a paid period that's currently active. An easy way to track this scenario is with the status field available in notifications (including refund-related notifications) and from the Get All Subscription Statuses endpoint of the App Store Server API. In the scenario I described above, the subscription associated with the refunded transaction would still have the status as Active (1). https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreservernotifications/status

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreserverapi/status

The only other scenario in which you may wish to revoke content is if you query the App Store Server API for a transaction and receive one of these errors: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreserverapi/transactionidnotfounderror

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreserverapi/originaltransactionidnotfounderror

In this case you should follow the steps described in that documentation to ensure there isn't an issue with your request causing the error. Assuming there isn't, you may disable access to the content for that transaction.

Are there cases where a response to an error returned from the AppStore Server API is considered a subscription cancellation by the user?
 
 
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