GooglePlay Console: App doesn't have any in-app products yet.

Question

Okay, I have previously added in-app purchase to apps but this time the warning doesn't go away. In console i get this message "App doesn't have any in-app products yet."

In Google Play Console, I have uploaded an app, i am using Android-in-app-Billing-v3-light. It's an in-app billing library from github. I have added permissions

<uses-permission android:name="com.android.vending.BILLING"/>

This warning doesn't seem to go away. What i am doing wrong? Did google play change it's requirement? Why it's not allowing me get past this screen or warning. Most questions asked had some error with permission but i have added permission. Also published the app in alpha.

With test id it's showing.

Schooner

Umm, do you really want to use a 3rd party in app billing library, rather than Google's own? That sounds like a great way to get owned. Especially if you have the gradle to pull latest rather than a specific version. This is something I wouldn't even remotely consider adding another layer in between. Especially when the authors are some random Russian company I've never heard of before. – Custos

And the latest commit was almost a year ago. Yeah, that sounds like a recipe for disaster. – Custos

Thanks for reply @GabeSechan, it was easy to implement that's why i chose it. I even tried with uploading app with google's in-app billing. I am having same issue the screen is stuck to "your app doesn't have any in-app billing product' – Schooner

I believe the library is safe, the library is open source so everyone can check the code. – Schooner

Answer 1

Okay, I found what was causing this issue, Google has updated their terms and services and now you need to create merchant account before you enable in-app purchases.

please create your merchant account, check the screenshot

the link is here https://play.google.com/apps/publish

Schooner

Answer 2

After the android new update, playstore will show you error when you add Billing permission in your AndroidManifest file

 <uses-permission android:name="com.android.vending.BILLING"/>. <---- Don't add this in the manifest file

Instead, you need to add a new line in your android/app/build.gradle

dependencies {
....
implementation 'com.android.billingclient:billing:4.0.0'. <---- Add this line in android/app/build.gradle
 }
 

Scratches

now you should add - implementation "com.android.billingclient:billing:6.1.0" – Cassaundracassava