How to test SKPaymentTransactionStateDeferred?

Question

iOS 8 will be rolling out soon. We have Xcode beta 6 atm, but still cannot find any docs on how to properly test Family Sharing (or did I miss something?). My question is how to properly setup Sandbox with parent/child? I tried to make it work in beta 1 without joy.

Any hints guys?

Update:

Two related stories on Apple Developer Forum:

1. How to create a children sandbox account on iTunes Connect?(https://devforums.apple.com/message/1030357#1030357)
2. Testing "Ask to Buy" in sandbox (https://devforums.apple.com/message/1005569#1005569)

Answer 1

I've made a little headway on this topic, so thought I'd report in. Plus, I've found an apparent bug, which I've reported to Apple.

What I've done is the following:

1) Create a parent test (sandbox) account in iTunes Connect, and create a child test account. These are really just two test accounts in iTunes Connect. Call them P and C for parent and child.

2) With both accounts, go to https://appleid.apple.com and change their year for their age. iTunes Connect doesn't let you do this. For some reason, the process with family sharing doesn't work unless ages do have a year. I've found that you have to do the selection twice on the year list at https://appleid.apple.com. Odd. I set my P as older (some adult age) and my C as younger.

3) On one apple device (my iPhone, running iOS8), I setup family sharing under Settings > iCloud for the P account. I'm signed into iTunes on this device with my real iTunes Apple Id (which has my payment info).

4) I then invite my C apple id to be part of my family, under Settings > iCloud.

5) I accept the invitation from P (on my iPad, also running iOS8), which involves signing into the iCloud on that other device as C.

6) On my iPhone, I turn on "Ask To Buy" for the C family member.

Now, I'm ready to try a test purchase as C on my sandboxed app. After I go through the regular process in my app's store I get the following alert:

when I tap on "Ask", I get the next alert:

Now, I've tried two options, with separate purchases. I've tried the "OK" option, which should send a notification to the P account. I have yet to receive such a notification on my P account (still signed into iCloud as that on my iPad).

I've also tried the "Approve in Person" option on the "child"s iPad. I use the P account, and I enter in that if on the next alert:

I get no error after that, so it would seem the Approve In Person worked, but I have yet to have that purchase convert to SKPaymentTransactionStatePurchased state. All of the deferred purchases are still in the payment queue of the app, each with the state SKPaymentTransactionStateDeferred. When I restart the app, the state of each purchase, still in the queue, is deferred.

Next, I wondered if there was some problem with the particular test iTunes account for C, so I made a second child account, call that C2, and tried to establish it as a child under P on my iPhone. However, I run into a further problem there. I get the alert (on the iPad), when I try to accept the invitation to be a family member under P for C2:

To me, this limitation on iCloud account shouldn't apply to test accounts. This is the apparent bug I've reported to Apple.

So, in summary, I'm not yet 100% convinced that my SKPaymentTransactionStateDeferred implementation is working. We shall see if Apple gets back to me.