[Solved] How can I correct IAP error - "Must query store before purchase"?

[jared]

Here’s a question from me to anyone with successful IAP’s on the iOS app store. or that knows in general what’s going on here

I have a consumable purchase that is approved by the iOS app store. i am calling the purchase as shown in the image below but keep getting an error "Must query item from store before purchase"

I can successfully retrieve Product Info, but the subsequent call fails when using the product id. I’ve tried the following and keep getting the same error mentioned above.

• hard coding the productID,
• using the itemID list block as shown in the image above,
• using the response from the ‘get product info’ call.

does anyone have any suggestions?

@muneer @tatiang @exploriverse.com @martint I hope you dont mind i’m tapping you guys here, I think you 4 have experience on this topic (could be wrong)

I invite anyone with helpful input to respond here! Thanks in advance.

[tatiang]

I never mind!

But I haven’t used IAPs before, sorry.

[muneer]

First thing to know that for AppStore you need to so the following steps:

Step 1 is to add a “blank” IAP component to your app and upload it to TestFlight/Play Store Beta. This update will then contain the IAP intent and will allow you to create your items and subscriptions

Step 2 Create the items and/or subscriptions you want your app to have, and then copy/paste them back into your Thunkable app.

Step 3 Rebuild your app and republish, the newest update will contain both the IAP intent and the IAP items available to purchase.

[jared]

Thank you! As far as I can tell I did all this.

I’ve sent several builds to TestFlight since the iap was approved.

I had actually created the iap on the AppStore before I sent the app version with iap blocks. Then Apple reviewed and approved the iap and app.

[muneer]

Can you show the green block List of item info from the Get Products Info and see that have a matching product in the Thunkable component list.

[jared]

[{"type":0,"priceAmountMicros":4990000,"title":"POB - Remove Ads","productId":"pob_remove_ads_1","description":"Purchase this once, remove ads forever","priceCurrencyCode":"USD","price":"$4.99","subscriptionPeriod":"P0D"}]

This is returned, then I try to make the purchase and receive the above mentioned error.

[muneer]

@jared

“productId”:“pob_remove_ads_1”

Do you have this product in the iOS: item list in the In-App component?

[jared]

The item is in the list of items for sale.

[muneer]

Can you pass it to the purchase component as text instead of selecting an item from the list?

[jared]

I’ve been trying this but will try by using an actual text block for the input.

sending a copy to test flight now like this

Also, thanks for your time @muneer and @tatiang

[update]

Testing for a Hard coded productId with text block produced the same error

[martint]

Hi Jared,

Have you tried it without the first ‘Get products info’ block?

[jared]

Yes and thank you!

[martint]

Something has changed, just tested and I am getting the same issue on IOS, was ok before updating the app 4 days ago?

[martint]

Can you have a word with the devs Jared, see whats changed.

[jared]

I’ve already filed a bug report. I’ll keep monitoring the bug report and this channel.

[martint]

Do we know if anyone is looking at this yet?

[jared]

Give it until this afternoon. Then I’ll update again.

[glossydulv]

Having the same problem. Hopefully an update soon!

[jared]

If you were experiencing this before, please try pushing a new version to TestFlight to test it out again!

[martint]

my current platform version is v304-6-prod, I already tried pushing an update on this platform version a couple of days ago and still same.