Following up with an additional question related to this thread:

We're testing the promotion and purchase flow in the iOS Sandbox environment, and we're not seeing the Purchase Count increment after a successful sandbox purchase — even when calling verifyPurchase with the promotionId included.

Is purchase count tracking supported in the iOS Sandbox environment, or is it only tracked for real (production) purchases?

If sandbox purchases are not counted, is there a recommended way to test the maxPurchases limit before going to production?

Any guidance would be appreciated. Thank you!

It's been resolved. Thank you for your response!

Q1: The removed player is completely excluded from reward calculation, so if the deletion happens before the job runs, that player is never iterated over and receives no rank or rewards.
Q2: Yes, the modified score will be used. The job always reads live state. Note that whether the score actually gets modified depends on the leaderboard type (e.g., for the LOW_VALUE type, only updates if the new score is less than the existing)
Q3: No backfilling, the next joiner goes to the latest instance, not the freed spot in ^2. No loop over earlier instances (^1, ^2) ever happens. The next joiner goes to ^3 (or ^4 if ^3 is full). The freed spot in ^2 stays empty permanently.

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