RecurringApplicationCharge: "trial_ends_on" is always null

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Hey there. At the moment the field “trial_ends_on” always returns null for me, even though I’m starting a trial properly and everything.
My only guess would be that this value is always null when “test” is set to true in the payload? Or because it’s a development store?

I am unable to test certain scenarios in that case until my app hits the app store. Not a problem, but I just want to know for sure what’s causing “trial_ends_on” to be null

I don’t have anything to show, the JSON is straight from the API:

{
   "id":"REMOVED",
   "name":"REMOVED",
   "api_client_id":"REMOVED",
   "price":"10.00",
   "status":"accepted",
   "return_url":"REMOVED",
   "billing_on":null,
   "created_at":"2020-12-28T20:09:36-05:00",
   "updated_at":"2020-12-28T20:09:57-05:00",
   "test":true,
   "activated_on":null,
   "cancelled_on":null,
   "trial_days":14,
   "trial_ends_on":null,
   "decorated_return_url":"REMOVED"
}

And I create charges with the following payload:

{
   "recurring_application_charge":{
      "name":"REMOVED",
      "price":"10.00",
      "return_url":"REMOVED",
      "trial_days":14,
      "test":null
   }
}

Test becomes true depending on which store is trying to install the app. Let me know!

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You haven’t activated the charge, so it doesn’t know when to start the trial, so it will be null.

3

Incredible timing! Just before you commented I tried using the 2021-01 API, and it’s automatically set to active now.

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This is a nice change in 2021-01, its caught a few people out in the past so glad its finally been fixed!