Use your own paywall

How to use your own paywall within Purchasely environment.

The feature described in this section is supported on the following versions and above:

iOS: 3.5.0
Android: 3.5.0
ReactNative: 2.5.0
Cordova: 2.5.0
Flutter: 1.5.0

It could sound weird to use your home made paywall in a No Code paywall environment but it is indeed very useful to:

A/A test your paywall against the same one implemented using Purchasely's template
Test your existing paywall against one of our No Code paywall and run tests to beat your reference
Easily deploy price A/B testing infrastructure without changing your UI

Implementation

The basic paywall implementation directly returns a piece of UI but to be able to make both your paywall alongside with Purchasely's paywalls you will need to proceed differently. First, you must declare your own paywall in our console along with the plans you wish to offer on your paywall if you want to do price A/B tests

Then you will need to fetch the paywalls and therefore you won't be able to directly display a screen returned by Purchasely.

You will have to first fetch the paywall then check whether you should display your own paywall or display the provided paywall.\

Purchasely.fetchPresentation(for: "onboarding", fetchCompletion: { presentation, error in
            guard let presentation = presentation, error == nil else {
                print("Error while fetching presentation: \(error?.localizedDescription ?? "unknown")")
                return
            }
            
            if presentation.type == .normal || presentation.type == .fallback {
                let paywallController = presentation.controller
                
                // display paywall controller.
                
            } else if presentation.type == .deactivated {
                
                // nothing to display
                
            } else if presentation.type == .client {
                let presentationId = presentation.id
                let plans = presentation.plans
                let metadata = presentation.metadata // look section below
                
                // display your own paywall
                
            }
        })

[Purchasely fetchPresentationFor:@"onboarding" fetchCompletion:^(PLYPresentation * _Nullable presentation, NSError * _Nullable error) {
        if (error != nil) {
            NSLog(@"Error while fetching presentation: %@", error.localizedDescription);
            return;
        }
        
        if (presentation.type == PLYPresentationTypeNormal || presentation.type == PLYPresentationTypeFallback) {
            PLYPresentationViewController *paywallController = presentation.controller;
            
            // display paywall controller.
            
        } else if (presentation.type == PLYPresentationTypeDeactivated) {
            
            // nothing to display
            
        } else if (presentation.type == PLYPresentationTypeClient) {
            NSString *presentationId = presentation.id;
            NSArray<NSString *> *plans = presentation.plans;
            
            //display your own paywall
            
        }
    } completion:nil];

Purchasely.fetchPresentationForPlacement(this, "onboarding") { presentation, error ->
    if(error != null) {
        Log.d("Purchasely", "Error fetching paywall", error)
        return@fetchPresentationForPlacement
    }

    when(presentation?.type) {
        PLYPresentationType.NORMAL,
        PLYPresentationType.FALLBACK -> {
            val paywallView = presentation.buildView(
                context = this@MainActivity,
                viewProperties = PLYPresentationViewProperties(
                    onClose = {
                        // TODO remove view
                    }
                )
            )
            // Display Purchasely paywall
        }
        PLYPresentationType.DEACTIVATED -> {
            // Nothing to display
        }
        PLYPresentationType.CLIENT -> {
            val paywallId = presentation.id
            val plans = presentation.plans
            val metadata = presentation.metadata // look section below
            
            // Display your own paywall
        }
        else -> {
            //No presentation, it means an error was triggered
        }
    }
}

Purchasely.fetchPresentationForPlacement(
    this, 
    "onboarding", 
    null,
    (presentation, error) -> {
        if(error != null) {
            Log.d("Purchasely", "Error fetching paywall", error);
            return null;
        }
        
        if(presentation.getType() == PLYPresentationType.CLIENT) {
            String paywallId = presentation.getId();
            List<String> planIds = presentation.getPlans();
            // Display your own paywall
        }
        
        return null;
    }
);

try {
  // Fetch presentation to display
  const presentation = await Purchasely.fetchPresentation({
      placementId: 'onboarding'
  })

  if(presentation.type == PLYPresentationType.CLIENT) {
    // Display my own paywall
    return
  }

} catch (e) {
  console.error(e);
}

try {
  var presentation = await Purchasely.fetchPresentation("ONBOARDING");

  if (presentation == null) {
    print("No presentation found");
    return;
  }

  if (presentation.type == PLYPresentationType.deactivated) {
    // No paywall to display
    return;
  }

  if (presentation.type == PLYPresentationType.client) {
    // Display my own paywall
    return;
  }

  //Display Purchasely paywall

  var presentResult = await Purchasely.presentPresentation(presentation,
      isFullscreen: false);

  switch (presentResult.result) {
    case PLYPurchaseResult.cancelled:
      {
        print("User cancelled purchased");
      }
      break;
    case PLYPurchaseResult.purchased:
      {
        print("User purchased ${presentResult.plan?.name}");
      }
      break;
    case PLYPurchaseResult.restored:
      {
        print("User restored ${presentResult.plan?.name}");
      }
      break;
  }
} catch (e) {
  print(e);
}

// coming soon

Then call clientPresentationDisplayed(presentation) when your paywall is displayed and clientPresentationClosed(presentation) when your paywall is closed.

These steps are mandatory for Purchasely to compute conversion on your paywall and measure the performance of A/B tests.

// Call when your paywall is displayed
// in ViewDidAppear for example
Purchasely.clientPresentationOpened(with: presentation)
            
// Call when your paywall has been closed
// in viewWillDisappear for example
Purchasely.clientPresentationClosed(with: presentation)

// Call clientPresentationClosed in Purchasely.syncPurchase() closure 
// if you are in paywallObserverMode

// Call when your paywall is displayed
// in ViewDidAppear for example
[Purchasely clientPresentationOpenedWith:presentation];
            
// Call when your paywall has been closed
// in viewWillDisappear for example
[Purchasely clientPresentationClosedWith:presentation];

// Call when your paywall is displayed
// For example in the onCreate() method of your Activity
Purchasely.clientPresentationDisplayed(presentation)

// Call when your paywall is closed
// For example in the onDestroy() method of your Activity
Purchasely.clientPresentationClosed(presentation)

// Call when your paywall is displayed
// For example in the onCreate() method of your Activity
Purchasely.clientPresentationDisplayed(presentation);

// Call when your paywall is closed
// For example in the onDestroy() method of your Activity
Purchasely.clientPresentationClosed(presentation);

// Call when your paywall is displayed
Purchasely.clientPresentationDisplayed(presentation);

// Call when your paywall is closed
Purchasely.clientPresentationClosed(presentation);

// Call when your paywall is displayed
Purchasely.clientPresentationDisplayed(presentation);

// Call when your paywall is closed
Purchasely.clientPresentationClosed(presentation);

You can of course start the purchase from your own paywall with Purchasely by using Purchasely.purchase(plan), more information here

Metadata

Available starting with SDK 4.1.0

You can declare your metadata with Your Own Paywall which can be:

String (but you can set different types with it, look at example code below)
Image
Boolean

These steps are mandatory for Purchasely to compute conversion on your paywall and measure the performance of A/B tests.

// Documentation coming soon

// Look at Kotlin example as it is the same methods

Purchasely.fetchPresentationForPlacement(this, "onboarding") { presentation, error ->
    if(error != null) {
        Log.d("Purchasely", "Error fetching paywall", error)
        return@fetchPresentationForPlacement
    }
    
    if(presentation?.type == PLYPresentationType.CLIENT) {
        val paywallId = presentation.id
        val plans = presentation.plans
        val metadata = presentation.metadata
        
        // Get string metadata, this method is asynchronous as it will parse tags
        val myString = metadata.getString("myString", callback = {
            Log.d("Demo", "myString: $it")
        })
        // You can also use coroutine
        scope.launch {
            val myString = metadata.getString("myString")
        }
        
        // If you do not use Purchasely tags
        val myString2 = metadata.getStringWithoutTags("myString2")
        
        val myBoolean = metadata.getBoolean("myBoolean")

        // Even if declared as a String in our console, 
        // Purchasely SDK will automatically try to convert to specific type 
        // For example: "4.7" is a double or float
        val myInt = metadata.getInt("myInt")
        val myLong = metadata.getLong("myLong")
        val myFloat = metadata.getFloat("myFloat")
        val myDouble = metadata.getDouble("myDouble")
        
        // If you set a metadata with a String ISO 8601, you can retrieve the date
        // "2023-09-21T09:48:25Z"
        val myDate = metadata.getDate("myDate")
        // or Instant
        val myDateAsInstant = if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O) {
            metadata.getInstant("myDate")
        } else null
        
        // If you set a medata with a String which is a json, you can retrieve it
        // "{"name":"Stranger","int_value":4,"child":{"title":"Things"}}"
        val myJson = metadata.getJsonObject("myJson")
    }
}

// Release coming soon

// Release coming soon

You can of course do the purchase transaction from your own paywall with Purchasely by using Purchasely.purchase(plan), more information here

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