How can we manipulate the billing window to be shorter than the monthly/yearly subscription to appropriately test transactions?

Issue

Want to test in-channel product without waiting a month (or year) for transaction to show up. 

Environment

SDK

Roku Pay

SVOD / TVOD 

Answer

The best way to test a subscription billing transaction is to include a one-day free trial in your test product. This means you only have to wait a day, instead of a month (or a whole year in the case of an annual subscription!), to see a user's second subscription transaction. 

Since Roku Pay recognizes a free trial as a user's first transaction, you can set the free trial to one day, wait 24 hours, and observe how the second transaction (i.e. the first paid transaction) is reported in the system. Please note, a free trial will appear as a zero dollar transaction. 

You can find the option to enable free trials in the Developer Dashboard under Manage My In-Channel Products > + Add Product.

Your free trial settings should look something like this:

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