Integrating other Cashshop systems

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admin-9 asked Nov 14, '17

Integrating other Cashshop systems

I am hosting my game on Kongregate and as such you have to go through their API in order to do a Cash Shop. I want to still be able to use PlayFab for the Analytics and I am using PlayFab for the CashShop for my Standalone version. Is there a way to send the events for making real money transactions so they register in PlayStream and Updates their Value to Date?

I created this method for sending the PlayStream event which that is working just fine but so far I haven't seen a way to update their VTD.

public void SendPaidMoneyEvent(Dictionary<string, object> data){
		WriteClientPlayerEventRequest request = new WriteClientPlayerEventRequest ();
		request.EventName = "player_realmoney_purchase";
		request.Body = data;


		PlayFabClientAPI.WritePlayerEvent (
			request, OnComplete, DefaultErrorLogging);
	}

PlayStream

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Answer 1 · 2017-11-15T00:02:13Z

brendan answered Nov 15, '17

Correct, for Kongregate-hosted games, you need to use their "Kreds" system. We don't currently have a direct integration with that, but you can use a custom game server or Cloud Script to make calls into that system. However, since that's not going to generate our internal purchasing events (such as player_realmoney_purchase), the purchase isn't something that can be rolled into our tracking/reporting on revenue or player VTD. We do have a backlog item to add a Server API call that will allow you to "inject" a payment event with a specified value. I don't have a timeframe for when that'll bubble up to the top of our backlog, but I'll add your info to it, so that we have that information for tracking purposes.

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