---
title: "What does the Google Play notification ONE_TIME_PRODUCT_CANCELED mean?"
description: "ONE_TIME_PRODUCT_CANCELED (2) means a pending one-time purchase was cancelled by the customer. Nothing was delivered, so drop any pending record."
url: https://revenuedot.app/docs/notifications/google-one-time-product-canceled
---

# What does the Google Play notification ONE_TIME_PRODUCT_CANCELED mean?

The Google Play notification ONE_TIME_PRODUCT_CANCELED means a customer cancelled a one-time purchase that was still pending.

## Quick facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Notification | `oneTimeProductNotification.notificationType` 2, `ONE_TIME_PRODUCT_CANCELED` |
| Where | Google Play real-time developer notifications (Pub/Sub, `DeveloperNotification`) |
| Sent by | Google Play, as a Cloud Pub/Sub push to your endpoint |
| What Google says | A pending one-time product purchase has been canceled by the user. |

## What triggers it

- The customer started a purchase with a delayed payment method and cancelled before it finished.
- It is about a pending purchase only. A refund of a completed purchase arrives as a voided purchase notification.
- Like the purchase type, it is sent only when you enabled one-time product events.

## What your server should do

1. Do not trust the message for the state. Google says a notification only tells you the purchase state changed; call the Google Play Developer API (`purchases.subscriptionsv2.get`) with the purchase token to get the full state.
2. Drop any pending record for that token and `sku`.
3. Do not deliver the item.
4. Do not confuse it with a refund: use the voided purchase notification for those.
5. Answer 2xx once you have handled the message, and skip a `messageId` you have seen: Google recommends checking the uniqueness of message IDs so a redelivery does not make a second API call.

## Example

```javascript
// A Pub/Sub push body: the notification is base64 JSON in message.data.
const body = { message: { messageId: "136969346945", data: Buffer.from(JSON.stringify({"version":"1.0","packageName":"com.example.app","eventTimeMillis":"1790800914000","oneTimeProductNotification":{"version":"1.0","notificationType":2,"purchaseToken":"PURCHASE_TOKEN","sku":"coins_100"}})).toString("base64") } };

function decide(body) {
  const n = JSON.parse(Buffer.from(body.message.data, "base64").toString("utf8"));
  if (!(n.oneTimeProductNotification?.notificationType === 2)) return "ignore";
  return "drop the pending purchase, deliver nothing";
}

console.log(decide(body));
```

*Run-checked: `npm run check:snippets` runs this snippet with Node and compares its output with `deliver nothing` (checked 2026-10-03).*

## How RevenueDot handles it

RevenueDot answers every handled message with 2xx and every temporary failure with 5xx so Pub/Sub redelivers it. For subscription types it re-reads the subscription from Google with `purchases.subscriptionsv2.get` and applies that state, and it acknowledges a new purchase if the app has not. A purchase RevenueDot has not seen is applied only when the app's **Track new purchases from server-to-server notifications** setting is on. RevenueDot ignores it: the message is stored and answered 2xx with status `ignored`, and only type 1 (purchased) is applied. Refunds come through the voided purchase notification.

## Related

- [What does the Google Play notification ONE_TIME_PRODUCT_PURCHASED mean?](https://revenuedot.app/docs/notifications/google-one-time-product-purchased.md)
- [What does the Google Play notification VOIDED_PURCHASE mean?](https://revenuedot.app/docs/notifications/google-voided-purchase.md)
- [What does the Google Play notification SUBSCRIPTION_PENDING_PURCHASE_CANCELED mean?](https://revenuedot.app/docs/notifications/google-subscription-pending-purchase-canceled.md)
- [Which webhook events does RevenueDot send?](https://revenuedot.app/docs/api/webhook-events.md)
- [Set up Google Play notifications in RevenueDot](https://revenuedot.app/docs/guides/google-play.md)

## Source

- [Google: Real-time developer notifications reference guide](https://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/rtdn-reference)
- [RevenueDot server: stores/google/notifications.ts (how the message is received)](https://github.com/revenuedot/revenuedot/blob/main/apps/server/src/stores/google/notifications.ts)
- [RevenueDot server: stores/google/notifications.ts (how the message is received)](https://github.com/revenuedot/revenuedot/blob/main/apps/server/src/stores/google/notifications.ts)
- [RevenueDot server: stores/google/sync.ts (how the purchase is re-read and applied)](https://github.com/revenuedot/revenuedot/blob/main/apps/server/src/stores/google/sync.ts)

Checked: 2026-10-03