One Time Products with RevenueCat

Sell one time products on Android without writing BillingClient glue. The RevenueCat SDK fetches products, launches the purchase, verifies the receipt, and acknowledges or consumes the token for you.

Phase 1: Scope

Answer these before touching code.

Question	Decision
Is the product consumable or non consumable?	One time products are consumed by default. Mark lifetime or permanent unlocks as non consumable in the RevenueCat dashboard (Product catalog > Products).
Do you read access through entitlements or transactions?	Prefer entitlements so access logic stays decoupled from product IDs.
Do you need server notification of the purchase?	Use RevenueCat webhooks. The `NON_RENEWING_PURCHASE` event fires for every new non subscription purchase.

Do not call BillingClient.queryProductDetailsAsync, acknowledgePurchase, or consumeAsync yourself once RevenueCat is integrated. The SDK owns the BillingClient instance.

Phase 2: Prepare

Configure the product in Google Play Console as a one time product. Keep one buy purchase option marked backwards compatible (the first one is by default). RevenueCat 10.x sells only that purchase option; rent options and one time product offers are not exposed through the SDK.
In the RevenueCat dashboard, attach the product to an offering and package, and mark it non consumable if it should be bought only once (consumable is the default).
Confirm Purchases.configure runs once on app start with your Android API key and the current App User ID.

Phase 3: Execute

Fetch offerings, launch the purchase, then read the result off CustomerInfo.

val offerings = Purchases.sharedInstance.awaitOfferings()
val pkg = offerings.current?.availablePackages?.firstOrNull() ?: return

Launch the purchase with awaitPurchase. It suspends until the RevenueCat backend verifies the token.

val result = Purchases.sharedInstance.awaitPurchase(
    PurchaseParams.Builder(activity, pkg).build()
)
val info = result.customerInfo

Read access through entitlements, or fall back to the non subscription transactions list.

val hasAccess = info.entitlements["lifetime_access"]?.isActive == true
val owned = info.nonSubscriptionTransactions
    .any { it.productIdentifier == "lifetime_product_id" }

The SDK acknowledges non consumables and consumes consumables automatically once the backend verifies the purchase. You do not call acknowledgePurchase or consumeAsync.

Phase 4: Handle Edge Cases

Wrap awaitPurchase to separate cancellation, pending payments, and real errors.

try { /* awaitPurchase */ } catch (e: PurchasesTransactionException) {
    when {
        e.error.code == PurchasesErrorCode.PaymentPendingError -> showPending()
        e.userCancelled -> Unit
        else -> showError(userFacingMessage(e.error)) // log e.error.message; mapping in rc-error-handling
    }
}

Outcome	SDK signal	Action
Success	`awaitPurchase` returns with updated `CustomerInfo`	Grant access from `entitlements` or `nonSubscriptionTransactions`.
User cancel	`PurchasesTransactionException`, `userCancelled == true`	Swallow silently.
Pending payment	`PurchasesTransactionException`, `PaymentPendingError`	Show a pending message. The SDK updates the entitlement later through `UpdatedCustomerInfoListener`.
Other error	`PurchasesTransactionException`, other codes	Log `e.error.message` and show a mapped string from `userFacingMessage` (see `rc-error-handling`).

Phase 5: Verify

Trust result.customerInfo from awaitPurchase. Do not grant access from optimistic local state.
Pending purchases do not grant entitlements. Register an UpdatedCustomerInfoListener so you react when the payment completes.
For server side provisioning, subscribe to the RevenueCat NON_RENEWING_PURCHASE webhook. With Google Play Real Time Developer Notifications connected to RevenueCat, a refund of a one time purchase arrives as CANCELLATION. Do not reimplement Google Play Developer API verification.

References

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