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Overview

Now that you’ve set up placements, choose the subscription product Encore offers. When a user accepts a win-back offer, Encore triggers a real Google Play subscription purchase using the product you select here. Google Play handles all entitlement state — no custom entitlement tracking code is needed in your app. The fastest path is to connect your Google Play catalog so Encore auto-syncs your subscriptions (and their offers) and you pick one from a dropdown — no typing Product IDs by hand. This happens in the Entitlements step (labelled Connect store) of the Integration Progress tracker.
Connect your Google Play service account once, then pick your subscription from the auto-synced list. Manual Product ID entry is still available as a fallback if you don’t connect a credential.
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Upload your Google Play service account

In your app’s Entitlements step, upload your Google Play service-account JSON file. Encore verifies it with Google and reads your catalog.See Connect Your Store Credentials for the full walkthrough, including the three required permissions (View app information (read-only), View financial data, Manage store presence).
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Pick your subscription, base plan, and offer

Once the catalog syncs, the Subscription product section shows a picker. Work top-down — pick your subscription, then (if it has more than one base plan) the base plan, then the offer:
  1. Subscription — choose the product that gates entitlements.
  2. Base plan — a Google Play subscription can expose several base plans (e.g. monthly, annual, a seasonal 12-month plan) at different prices. The base plan you pick determines the price and billing period the user sees and is charged.
  3. Offer — within the chosen base plan, pick the offer (e.g. a free trial) users see at purchase. Choose No offer to charge the base plan immediately.
The base-plan step only appears for Play subscriptions that expose more than one base plan — single-base-plan products skip straight to the offer. iOS has no base plans (each subscription is its own product), so this step doesn’t apply there either.
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Don't have a product yet? Let Encore create one

If you don’t already have a suitable subscription, Encore can pre-fill a recommended annual product (priced from your existing catalog, with a free trial) and create it in Google Play Console for you — base plan, price, and trial offer included. Review the fields, confirm, and Encore writes the subscription, then promote it to ACTIVE in Play Console when you’re ready.
Newly created products land in your Play Console catalog as a draft. Review the auto-filled base plan, price, and trial offer, then activate both the base plan and the subscription — products in Draft state cannot be purchased.

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Manual Product ID Entry (Fallback)

If you haven’t connected a store credential, you can still enter a Product ID by hand. Create the subscription yourself in Google Play Console, then enter its details in the Encore Dashboard.
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Create the subscription in Google Play Console

Go to play.google.com/console → your app → Monetize → Subscriptions → Create subscription.Add a base plan with your billing period and pricing, add a Free trial offer, then Activate both the base plan and the subscription. Products in “Draft” state cannot be purchased.
The Product ID and Base Plan ID cannot be changed or reused after creation.
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Enter the details in Encore

In your app’s Entitlements step, type the Product ID (e.g. com.yourapp.encore.annual.1m.trial) and, if you want a specific trial, the optional Offer ID (e.g. intro-7d-trial) into the fallback inputs and save.
The SDK automatically reads the configured Product ID from Encore and uses it when presenting offers.

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Next Steps

  • Configure Analytics - Set up Google Play Real-Time Developer Notifications to track subscription events