Grant access levels manually

If you need to manually unlock premium features for specific users or user groups, you can do it using the Adapty API. This is useful for promotional campaigns, investor access, or special customer support cases.

In this guide, you’ll learn how to identify users and grant them access levels programmatically.

Sample use cases

Promo codes: When users enter a valid promo code in your app, automatically grant them access to premium features.
Investor/beta tester access: Provide premium access to investors or beta testers by checking their custom attributes.

Step 1. Identify users

Adapty uses customer_user_id to identify users across platforms and devices. This is crucial for ensuring users keep their access after reinstalling the app or switching devices.

You need to create this ID once. When users first sign up from the app, you can pass their customer user ID during SDK activation, or use the identify method if the SDK was activated before signup.

If you identify new users after SDK activation, the SDK will first create an anonymous profile (it can’t work without one). When you call identify with a customer user ID, a new profile will be created.

This behavior is normal and won’t affect analytics accuracy. Read more here.

do {
    try await Adapty.identify("YOUR_USER_ID") // Unique for each user
} catch {
    // handle the error
}

// User IDs must be unique for each user
Adapty.identify("YOUR_USER_ID") { error in
    if let error {
        // handle the error
    }
}

Adapty.identify("YOUR_USER_ID") { error -> // Unique for each user
    if (error == null) {
        // successful identify
    }
}

// User IDs must be unique for each user
Adapty.identify("YOUR_USER_ID", error -> {
    if (error == null) {
        // successful identify
    }
});

try {
    await adapty.identify("YOUR_USER_ID"); // Unique for each user
    // successfully identified
} catch (error) {
    // handle the error
}

try {
  await Adapty().identify(customerUserId); // Unique for each user
} on AdaptyError catch (adaptyError) {
  // handle the error
} catch (e) {
}

Adapty.Identify("YOUR_USER_ID", (error) => { // Unique for each user
  if(error == null) {
    // successful identify
  }
});

Adapty.identify("YOUR_USER_ID") // Unique for each user
    .onSuccess {
        // successful identify
    }
    .onError { error ->
        // handle the error
    }

try {
  await adapty.identify({ customerUserId: "YOUR_USER_ID" });
  // successfully identified
} catch (error) {
  // handle the error
}

Step 2. Grant access level via API

Once a user is identified with a customer_user_id, you can grant them access levels using the server-side API. This API call will grant the access level to the user, so they can access paid features without actually paying.

See the full method reference here.

You can control user access by adding a custom attribute (e.g., Beta tester or Investor) in the Adapty dashboard. When your app launches, check this attribute in the user’s profile to grant access automatically. To update access, just change the attribute in the dashboard.

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.adapty.io/api/v2/server-side-api/purchase/profile/grant/access-level/ \
  --header 'Accept: application/json' \
  --header 'Authorization: Api-Key YOUR_SECRET_API_KEY' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'adapty-customer-user-id: CUSTOMER_USER_ID' \
  --data '{
  "access_level_id": "YOUR_ACCESS_LEVEL"
}'

Step 3. Verify access in the app

After granting access via API, the user’s profile will be automatically updated. Fetch their profile to check their subscription status and unlock premium features.

do {
    let profile = try await Adapty.getProfile()

    if profile.accessLevels["YOUR_ACCESS_LEVEL_ID"]?.isActive ?? false {
        // grant access to premium features
    }
} catch {
// handle the error
}

Adapty.getProfile { result in
    if let profile = try? result.get() {
        // check the access
        if profile.accessLevels["YOUR_ACCESS_LEVEL_ID"]?.isActive ?? false {
            // grant access to premium features
        }
    }
}

Adapty.getProfile { result ->
    when (result) {
        is AdaptyResult.Success -> {
            val profile = result.value
            // check the access
            if (profile.accessLevels["YOUR_ACCESS_LEVEL_ID"]?.isActive == true) {
                // grant access to premium features
            }
        }
        is AdaptyResult.Error -> {
            val error = result.error
            // handle the error
        }
    }
}

Adapty.getProfile(result -> {
    if (result instanceof AdaptyResult.Success) {
        AdaptyProfile profile = ((AdaptyResult.Success<AdaptyProfile>) result).getValue();
        // check the access
        if (profile.getAccessLevels().get("YOUR_ACCESS_LEVEL_ID") != null && profile.getAccessLevels().get("YOUR_ACCESS_LEVEL_ID").getIsActive()) {
            // grant access to premium features
        }

    } else if (result instanceof AdaptyResult.Error) {
        AdaptyError error = ((AdaptyResult.Error) result).getError();
        // handle the error
    }
});

try {
    const profile = await adapty.getProfile();
    // check the access
    if (profile.accessLevels["YOUR_ACCESS_LEVEL_ID"]?.isActive) {
        // grant access to premium features
    }
} catch (error) {
  // handle the error
}

try {
  final profile = await Adapty().getProfile();
  // check the access
  if (profile.accessLevels["YOUR_ACCESS_LEVEL_ID"]?.isActive ?? false) {
      // grant access to premium features
  }
} on AdaptyError catch (adaptyError) {
  // handle the error
} catch (e) {
}

Adapty.GetProfile((profile, error) => {
  if (error != null) {
    // handle the error
    return;
  }

  // check the access
  if (profile.AccessLevels["YOUR_ACCESS_LEVEL_ID"]?.IsActive ?? false) {
      // grant access to premium features
  }
});

Adapty.getProfile()
    .onSuccess { profile ->
        // check the access
        if (profile.accessLevels["YOUR_ACCESS_LEVEL_ID"]?.isActive == true) {
            // grant access to premium features
        }
    }
    .onError { error ->
        // handle the error
    }

try {
  const profile = await adapty.getProfile();
  // check the access
  if (profile.accessLevels["YOUR_ACCESS_LEVEL_ID"]?.isActive) {
      // grant access to premium features
  }
} catch (error) {
  // handle the error
}