The item you have requested is not available for purchase

Question

I am trying to test subscriptions in android app. I use dungeons example. I uploaded apk which is not published, but subscription items are published. I added new test account(gmail) in dev console which is not developer account. I reseted phone to factory and added test account. I installed signed apk(same version as uploaded).

When I try purchase I get "The item you have requested is not available for purchase" but I see in background item which I requested.

Some thoughts what can be problem here? Thanks

Answer 1

Same thing happened to me when I tested in-app billing, and there was no other way to overcome it but to actually publish the application. Once the application had "replicated" to Google servers (which took several hours, during which I got yet another obscure error message when trying to purchase anything), buying subscriptions worked fine.