# Android In-App Purchase (IAP)
## How to setup In App Purchase?
### Create In-App Purchase Products
There are 4 types of in-app purchases.
* **Consumable:** These are items that can be used up or expire over time and can be bought multiple times (e.g. in-game currency, items, or other virtual goods).
* **Non-Consumable:** These are permanent items that can only be purchased once (e.g. unlocking a full version of an app or purchasing a permanent game character).
* **Auto-renewable subscriptions:** This type of in-app purchase allows a user to subscribe to a service or content within an app on a recurring basis.
* **Non-renewable subscriptions:** This type of in-app purchase allows a user to subscribe to a service or content within an app for a specific duration of time.
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Android doesn't differentiate between consumable & non-consumable products. You need to manage from your side if user can purchase one product single time or multiple times.
**1.)** Go to Google Play Developer Console -> Select Your App -> Monetize -> In-app product.
**2.)** Click on **Create Product** button to create a product. Enter all the info and create a product.
**3.)** Once you create it, Activate button will gets displayed with all the information you filled-up. Click on **Activate** to activate the product. This is required to test IAP.
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Google provides very easy way to create Auto-Renewable and Non-Renewable subscriptions. Follow below steps.
**1.)** Go to Google Play Developer Console -> Select Your App -> Monetize -> Subscriptions
**2.)** Click on **Create Subscription** button to create a product. Enter all the info and create a product.
**3.)** Once you create it, it will ask you to complete below tasks.
* **Add subscription benefits:** In this section you will need to enter all the subscription benefits, description and other info.
* **Add a base plan:** First of all select your plan type.
* **Auto-renewing:** Select this option if you want to create auto-renewable subscription.
* **Pre-paid:** Select this option if you want to create non-renewable subscriptions
* **Add offers:** Use this option if you want to enable offer for your subscription such as free trial. This steps is optional.
* **Activate:** At last you need to activate your subscription to make it available for testing and prod users when you go live.
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### Create Licence User Accounts to Test IAP
**1.)** Go to PlayStore Console -> Setup -> Licence Testing
**2.)** Enter comma separated email addresses under **Add licence testers** field and hit Enter.
**3.)** Select **RESPOND\_NORMALLY** under **Licence response** dropdown.
**4.)** Now, you need to prepare an APK and upload it under internal tester. To do that, go to PlayStore Console -> Select Your App -> Testing -> Internal testing.
**5.)** Click **Create a new release** button and upload your APK in there. Publish that release for review.
**6.)** Next step is to join the testers program. To do so, click on Testers tab and then copy **Join on the web** URL. Open this URL in your browser and join the testers program.
**7.)** Now, you are ready to test IAP in your application. Install APK file in your mobile and test everything.
