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Advice on how to manage catalog items

We are looking for advice on how to manage items.

The premise is that we want to be able to buy items in-game that will be available in-game, and we want to be able to buy items in-game, but not in RM currency. All of those items will be purchased with RM currency. We will not be using virtual currency in the game.

All purchased items will be automatically stored in the inventory. This is the expected usage so far.

We sometimes use the "Progressive Reward System (https://github.com/PlayFab/PlayFab-Samples/tree/master/Recipes/ProgressiveRewards)" to distribute these items for We would like to distribute them for free.

In this case, is it okay to use "Azure Functions + Cloud Functions + PlayFabServerAPI.GrantItemsToUser" to manage the items by storing them in the inventory?

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This sentence: “and we want to be able to buy items in-game, but not in RM currency. All of those items will be purchased with RM currency. We will not be using virtual currency in the game.” you said is a bit contradictory. Can you further explain it?

If you want all items in your game can only be purchased with real money, you can refer to Getting started with PlayFab, Unity IAP, and Android - PlayFab | Microsoft Learn to know about real money purchase process. And after the receipt verified, the catalog item (ItemId) matching the GooglePlay store item (productId) will be added to the user's inventory. So, you don’t have to grant the item manually.

In addition, in the situation that all your items can only be purchased with real money, you can still use "Azure Functions + Cloud Functions + PlayFabServerAPI.GrantItemsToUser” to distribute the items to player for free.

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Can you further explain it?

I wanted to say "all items in the game can only be purchased with real money".

Thank you for replying to my poor English. All my problems are solved.

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