Is In-app purchase required for Huawei install referrer

Question

As per this documentation the way I can use Huawei install referrer in React Native is:

import {HMSInstallReferrer} from '@hmscore/react-native-hms-ads';

So install referrer is a part of the hms-ads package.

And of the 3 APIs in the documentation:

HMSInstallReferrer.startConnection(...,...)

HMSInstallReferrer.isReady()

HMSInstallReferrer.getReferrerDetails()

I can see that startConnection() is successful, but isReady() returns result as false.

After some research I found this link, where at the bottom it says:

Enabling Required Services

To use HUAWEI Ads, you need to enable the IAP service first and also set IAP parameters.

Questions

Do we actually require In-App Purchase to be enabled to use simple install referrer?
Won't that show as "Contains in-app purchase" on the app details page?
For this service to enable there are too many things to set up as well, including merchant service etc.. which is too much for what we intend to build.

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