How to use billing¶
IAP v4 is a payment module that enables you to respond quickly to the growing market and implement the payment system with less development time. Examples of what IAP v4 supports include verifying a receipt, confirming duplicated payment, and sending payment logs.
Overview¶
IAP v4 helps you to:
- Develop payment system on Google Play Store, Apple App Store, ONE Store and Lebi Store with a single API.
- Calculate VAT in accordance with currency and then send the data when game requests item information.
- Provides Market PID list registered on data system in sales through Hive SDK.
- Send payment logs of games to Analytics v2 when game client requests receipt verification of games to IAP v4 server.
- Carry out purchase based on a Market PID.
- Gather logs in the process of pre-purchase (when tapping purchase), purchase (after purchase), and post purchase (after calling finish) to clarify the current status of purchase as well as verification process.
- IAP v4 purchases items, verifies receipts, sends logs. Sending item is managed by game server.
- In the Windows environment, it supports PG payments and Steam market payments.
- The following Hive Console settings are required for Steam market payments:
- If you set the Steam environment to sandbox, payment will be made in sandbox.
Purchase process with IAP v4¶
The status of supported IAP v4 features¶
| Operating System | iOS | Android | Windows | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Market/Platform | Apple AppStore | Google PlayStore | ONE Store v4 | ONE Store v7 (v5,v6) | Samsung GalaxyStore | Amazon AppStore | Facebook Cloud Games | Huawei AppConnect | PG | Steam |
| Single Purchase | O | O | O | O | O | O | X | O | O | O |
| Multiple Purchases | - | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Restore Purchase | O | O | O | O | O | O | X | O | X | O |
| Search Cancel/Refund History | O | O | X | O | X | O | X | O | O | O |
| Refund User Repayment | O | O | X | O | X | O | X | O | O | O |
| Subscription | O | O | X | O | O | O | X | O | X | X |
| Auto-renewable Subscription | Weekly, 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 6 months, Yearly | Weekly, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, Yearly | X | Weekly, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, Yearly | Weekly, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, Yearly | Weekly, BiWeekly, Monthly, BiMonthly, Quarterly, SemiAnnually, Annually | X | P1W, P1M, P2M, P6M, P1Y, ..., ISO 8601 | X | X |
| Payload Support | O | O | Not Supported | O | O | O | X | O | O | O |
Flowchart to Sync with IAP v4¶
Warning
Apple does not support Apple Game Center and in-app purchase with iOS Enterprise.