Validating iOS Subscription Receipts in React Native & Node.js

Managing transaction receipts and persisting them with user identifiers

Transaction receipts: the key element of subscription management

Transaction receipts are a key element in managing subscriptions through in-app purchases, as well as for automatically renewing and cancelling subscriptions based on the receipt status and validity. They should be handled with care at the initial purchase stage, ensuring that they are persisted in your backend database and stored in a secure manner.

This article walks through the process of generating a transaction receipt in React Native, before sending it to your server with user identifiers in order to persist a transaction to a user account. Note that even if the reader is using native iOS APIs to manage in-app purchases within their app, that receipt can still be sent to the JavaScript side via an Express route and persisted in their backend database.

If the reader has not yet set up in-app purchases within their apps and would like to do so before following this piece, check out my article on setting up iOS subscriptions in React Native: React Native: Subscriptions with In-App Purchases. This piece will act as a natural follow-on to…