Faster Renewals for Test Subscriptions

Testing your in-app subscriptions is a critical step in ensuring you're offering your customers a high quality service.

In order to make testing easier and faster, starting on February 20th, we are introducing shorter renewal intervals for test purchases made with license-test accounts. Currently, subscriptions by license-test accounts renew daily. The new changes will allow you to test an entire subscription cycle, including 6 renewals, in under an hour. We will also be shortening the testing time intervals of features such as grace period and account hold.

Please be aware that these changes are coming so you can update your testing flows accordingly prior to the change. Also note that existing test subscriptions still active on February 20, 2018 will automatically be canceled at that time.

Renewal times

Renewal times will vary based on the subscription period:

Subscription period	Test subscription period
1 week	5 minutes
1 month	5 minutes
3 month	10 minutes
6 month	15 minutes
1 year	30 minutes

Time intervals of the following features will also be shortened for test subscriptions:

Feature	Test period
Free trial	3 minutes
Introductory price period	Same as test subscription period
Grace period (both 3 and 7 day)	5 minutes
Account hold	10 minutes

Note: These times are approximate; you may see some small variations in the precise time of an event. To compensate for variation, call the Google Play Developer API to view current status after every subscription expiration date.

Renewal limit

Due to the increase in renewal frequency, the number of renewals is limited to 6 regular renewals (not including intro price/free trial). After 6 renewals, the subscription will be automatically canceled.

Examples

Here are several examples of how the new renewal times are applied.

Free trial

Grace period

Account hold

Don't forget to check the Testing In-app Billing page for more details on testing your subscriptions. If you still have questions, reach out through the comments or post your question on Stackoverflow using the tag google-play.