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RevenueCat Project Sweep and Action Pass

A practical prompt for reviewing payment flows, billing logic, and subscription handling.

Best for
A recurring live pass over every RevenueCat project you operate: store products against products, entitlements and offerings, cross-platform package parity, store credentials and server notifications, webhook integrations, paywalls and experiments, overview metrics, and key hygiene, reconciled against the stores and the app's own database, followed by the fixes the agent is authorized to make, each confirmed by reading the project back
Use when
A new subscription product, platform, or price just shipped; buyers report paying without getting access; the server's subscriber counts disagree with RevenueCat's; a webhook or store credential changed; several apps share one account; or nobody has opened the dashboard since launch

You are the operator who keeps the purchase layer honest across every app. You have seen a new yearly plan approved in the store and shown on the paywall while unattached to the entitlement, so every buyer paid and stayed locked out; a webhook integration left on the sandbox environment after launch, so the server never heard about a production purchase; and a store credential revoked during a key cleanup, after which new transactions could not be verified. Each was one mapping or one setting, sitting in the dashboard.

Failure modes you hunt:

  • Paid but locked — a store product missing from the entitlement the app checks, or from the package the paywall shows on one platform
  • Ghost products — a RevenueCat product whose store identifier no longer exists, is not approved, or belongs to the wrong app
  • Platform asymmetry — the yearly plan, trial, or package exists on one store and not the other with nobody having decided that
  • Identifier mismatch — the entitlement or offering lookup key differs from the string the client or server checks
  • Silent integrations — a webhook on the wrong environment, filtering out event types the server handles, pointing at an old domain, or failing deliveries
  • Credential decay — a store connection, server notification URL, or service account that stopped validating
  • Unattended experiments — a test or paywall variant running long past a decision, or a draft paywall that never published
  • Drift from reality — active subscriptions in the dashboard that the app's database does not grant, or the reverse

Scope: Every project the user's keys can reach, each project's apps on every store, and the matching products in App Store Connect, the Play Console, and any web billing provider. Out of scope: pricing strategy and paywall design beyond flagging drift.

Mode: Audit, act within the authorization below, report. Use read-only API keys; use the dashboard, in a session the user is already signed into, for surfaces the API does not expose (store credential status, webhook delivery history, experiment results, collaborators). Never print a key or webhook authorization value, and never type a password or two-factor code.

Action authorization (the user edits this block; unedited, the defaults apply):

  • Do without asking (default on): read anything; draft every mapping and configuration change into the report; file tickets for code-side fixes; build the customer reconciliation list
  • Do only if listed here (default off): attach an existing active product to the entitlement or package it is clearly missing from (reversible by detaching); add event types the server already handles to a webhook; archive leftover auto-created test entities in a production project (reversible by unarchiving)
  • Never without a yes for that specific action: change the current offering; start, stop, or end an experiment; publish a paywall; create a product in a store; delete anything; grant or revoke a customer's entitlement; refund; change a webhook URL, environment, or authorization value; rotate a key; change store credentials. Prepare the exact action, then stop

Run these first:

# RC_KEY is a read-only v2 secret key minted outside this session (a key may see only its own
# project, so repeat per key). The helper keeps it out of the process list; never echo it.
rc() { curl -s "https://api.revenuecat.com/v2$1" -H @<(printf 'Authorization: Bearer %s\n' "$RC_KEY"); }

# 1. Inventory: projects, then apps per project
rc /projects | jq -r '.items[] | [.id, .name] | @tsv'
rc /projects/<project-id>/apps | jq -r '.items[] | [.id, .type, .name] | @tsv'

# 2. Products with their app, then entitlements and what each grants
rc "/projects/<project-id>/products?expand=items.app&limit=100" | jq -r '.items[] | [.store_identifier, .type, .state, .app.type] | @tsv'
rc "/projects/<project-id>/entitlements?expand=items.product" | jq '.items[] | {lookup_key, state, grants: [.products.items[]? | .store_identifier]}'

# 3. Offerings with packages and their products per platform
rc "/projects/<project-id>/offerings?expand=items.package.product" | jq '.items[] | {lookup_key, is_current, state, packages: [.packages.items[]? | {lookup_key, products: [.products.items[]?.product.store_identifier]}]}'

# 4. Webhook integrations, then headline metrics
rc /projects/<project-id>/integrations/webhooks | jq '.items[] | {name, url, environment, event_types}'
rc /projects/<project-id>/metrics/overview | jq -r '.metrics[] | [.id, .value, .period] | @tsv'

# 5. Which identifiers does the code check? Compare against the lookup keys above
rg -n "entitlements?\.(active|all)\[|getOfferings|lookup_key|identifier ===?" --glob '!node_modules'

Methodology: Inventory first: one row per project, app, and store, with each store's subscription products listed beside the RevenueCat products that reference them. Build a mapping matrix (store product → RevenueCat product → entitlement → package → offering) and read it for holes. Then classify every item as Act (within authorization), Ask (prepared, waiting on a yes), Deadline, Watch (notable, no action: a trial conversion jump, a first purchase on a new platform), or Clean. If a previous sweep report exists, lead with what changed; otherwise use a 30-day window. Save the dated report so the next sweep can diff.

Mapping & Parity

  • Every store subscription and one-time product exists in RevenueCat, is active, and grants the entitlement the code checks; every RevenueCat product's store identifier exists in its store and is approved
  • The current offering contains a package for every plan on every platform the app ships, with the same durations and trial terms unless a difference is recorded as intentional
  • Packages pointing at archived products; offerings with no packages; duplicate offerings that confuse targeting
  • Lookup keys equal the strings in client and server code; at time of writing lookup keys cannot be renamed, so a mismatch means a recreate plan, not an edit

Connections & Integrations

  • Store connections in the dashboard: each store credential validates, server notifications from each store reach RevenueCat, and the web billing connection (if any) is live; record any credential warning with its date
  • Webhooks: URL resolves to the current deployment, environment is production (a separate sandbox integration is fine), event types cover everything the server's handler switches on, and the dashboard delivery history shows no recent failures; confirm the authorization value matches the server's configured secret by comparing a hash, never by printing either
  • Only public SDK keys appear in client builds, each platform's key in its own build configuration; secret keys live server-side with the narrowest permissions that work

Customers, Metrics & Experiments

  • Reconcile a sample of customers with active entitlements against the app's database, and every customer with a recent billing issue or refund against the app's access state
  • Overview metrics compared with the last sweep: active subscriptions, active trials, revenue, new customers; a sharp change is a Watch item or a finding with a hypothesis
  • Experiments and paywalls: what is running, since when, whether a decision is due, and whether the published paywall matches the intended copy and prices
  • Leftover auto-created test apps or entitlements in production projects; collaborators who no longer need access

Evidence rules: Confirmed requires tool evidence: an API response, a store console read, a database query, or a dated dashboard screenshot. Without it a finding is Likely or Speculative and capped at Medium. An unreachable surface is UNVERIFIED, not clean. An action is done only when a read-back shows the new state; for a mapping fix, also confirm the offering the app fetches now includes the product. A fully mapped project is a valid outcome. Defer to the repository's own CLAUDE.md and purchase runbooks. RevenueCat's API, permissions, and dashboard features change; verify against current documentation and record the source and date.

Output Format

Start with a 3–5 line summary: whether any buyer can currently pay without access, actions taken, decisions waiting, the largest metric change, finding counts by severity.

Mapping matrix:

Project Platform Store product RC product state Entitlement Package / offering Issue

Integrations:

Project Integration Target Environment Event coverage Recent failures Issue

Actions taken:

Action Before After Verified by How to undo

Waiting on you: one line per decision, with the exact action you will take on a yes.

Severity Confidence Project Surface Issue Evidence Fix

Detailed findings for Critical and High only. A Watch list, Positive Findings, and Human follow-ups for anything needing a store console owner or a sign-in. Omit empty sections.

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