In-App Buy

Offer actress content and features — including digital goods, subscriptions, and premium content — directly within your app through in‑app purchases, bachelor on all Apple platforms. You can even promote and offering in-app purchases straight on the App Store.

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Overview

In-app purchases provide a consequent and safe feel facilitated past our world-course commerce and payment system, making it piece of cake for users to manage their purchases and subscriptions over time.

With in-app purchases, users can:

  • Pay rapidly in 45 currencies using payment methods associated with their Apple ID, which supports virtually 200 payment methods (including Apple Pay, credit or debit cards, store credit, region-specific methods, and more — all securely stored on file).
  • Admission their purchased content on all devices your app supports, and restore purchases on new devices.
  • Utilise Report a Problem to become aid with content they've purchased or request a refund.
  • Share eligible purchases through Family Sharing.
  • View a unified buy history.
  • Manage all of their subscriptions in one identify.

In-app purchase types

There are four types of in-app purchases and yous tin offer multiple types inside your app.

Consumable

Provide dissimilar types of consumables, such as lives or gems used to further progress in a game, or boosts in a dating app to increase contour visibility. Consumable in‑app purchases are depleted every bit they're used and tin can be purchased over again. They're often offered in apps and games that utilise the freemium business model.

Nonconsumable

Provide nonconsumable, premium features that are purchased once and don't expire. Examples include additional filters in a photo app, extra brushes in an illustration app, or cosmetic items in a game. Nonconsumable purchases can offer Family Sharing.

Auto‑renewable subscriptions

Provide ongoing access to content, services, or premium features in your app. Users are charged on a recurring basis until they decide to cancel. Common utilise cases include access to media or libraries of content (such as video, music, or manufactures), software as a service (such every bit deject storage, productivity, or graphics and blueprint), teaching, and more. Motorcar-renewable subscriptions can offering Family Sharing.

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Nonrenewing subscriptions

Provide access to services or content for a limited duration, such as a flavor laissez passer to in-game content. This type of subscription doesn't renew automatically, so users need to buy a new subscription once it concludes if they desire to retain access.

Configuring in-app purchases

Before creating in-app purchases and offering them in your app, sign the Paid Applications Agreement and fix up your banking and tax information in App Store Connect. To ensure your in-app purchase experience fits well with the balance of your app and finer showcases your products, review the Human Interface Guidelines and App Store Review Guidelines.

Set up in App Store Connect

Configure in-app purchases in App Store Connect by calculation details, such as product name, clarification, price, and availability. Y'all can also add localizations to ensure that people in regions where your app is bachelor have a seamless purchase experience in their preferred language.

  • Workflow for configuring in-app purchases
  • Create an in-app buy
  • Add localizations for in-app purchases

Employ StoreKit

After calculation the in-app purchase capability to your app in Xcode, use StoreKit to support in-app purchases for a safe, secure buy experience. The StoreKit framework and in-app purchase APIs handle purchases end to end, including retrieving product information, processing payments, and delivering the production.

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  • StoreKit documentation

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Determine transaction status

App Store Server Notifications provide existent-time updates about transaction status and central events related to in-app purchases, such as a refund or a change in subscription condition or Family Sharing admission. You tin employ this information to update your transaction records and to create customized experiences in your app. For example, if someone has turned off auto-renew, you might display a promotional offer to encourage them to resubscribe. To enable App Store Server Notifications, provide a URL in App Shop Connect that links to your server.

Determine product entitlements and transaction updates using the App Store Server API. You'll go the latest status and history for in-app buy transactions, including condition changes that take place outside your app.

  • App Shop Server Notifications documentation
  • App Shop Server API documentation

Testing in-app purchases

Examination your in‑app purchases throughout the development procedure to make sure your app and server properly handle common purchase scenarios, such as subscription offers, interrupted purchases, or refunds. During early development, you can simulate and examination in‑app purchases using Xcode. You lot tin also employ StoreKit testing in Xcode to test in-app purchases in a local environment without connecting to App Store servers. One time you've configured your in‑app purchases in App Store Connect, employ the sandbox environment to test using existent product information.

When you're gear up, apply TestFlight to gain valuable feedback on your apps and in‑app purchases from internal and external testers. Invite upwards to 10,000 external testers using simply their email addresses or by sharing a public link. In‑app purchases in TestFlight employ the sandbox environment, so they're free to testers and don't carry over into product once your app is released on the App Store.

Once you've finished testing your in-app purchases, you can submit them for review.

  • Testing at all stages of evolution
  • Testing in Xcode
  • Testing with the sandbox environment
  • Testing with TestFlight

Marketing in-app purchases

One time your in-app purchases are published, yous tin can promote them on the App Shop and within your app to showcase their value.

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In-app events

In-app events are timely events within apps and games — such as game competitions, movie premieres, or livestreamed experiences. People can notice events on the App Store on iOS and iPadOS, giving you a new way to showcase your events and expand their achieve. If your event requires an in-app purchase or subscription to participate, this requirement is noted on the event details folio.

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Promoted in-app purchases

On iOS and iPadOS, people can browse in-app purchases directly on the App Store and showtime a purchase even before downloading your app. Promoted in-app purchases announced on your product page, can display in search results, and may be featured on the Today, Games, and Apps tabs, which tin help you lot showcase content offered inside your app and help people understand its value.

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App bundles

Offering up to ten of your apps or games in a single purchase. Yous can create app bundles for paid apps or free apps that offer car-renewable subscriptions.

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Promo codes

Give press and influencers early access to your app or in-app purchases with promo codes configured in App Shop Connect. You tin can give abroad up to 100 promo codes for each version of your app per platform and up to 100 promo codes per in-app purchase.

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Family Sharing

Apps that offer car-renewable subscriptions or nonconsumable in-app purchases can enable Family Sharing in App Store Connect to let users share access with upward to v family members. With a streamlined, convenient feel, Family Sharing can aid you lot concenter subscribers, encourage paid subscriptions, increment engagement, and ameliorate retention.

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Subscription offers

You can create subscription offers to attract and retain users by providing a free or discounted price for a specific duration of an motorcar-renewable subscription.

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Territory-specific pricing

Apps with auto-renewable subscriptions tin can offer territory-specific prices. You can choose from 200 price points beyond all available currencies and price tiers to offer advisable pricing for each location.

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Providing support

Thoughtful back up helps you manage relationships with your users and can atomic number 82 to college retention, improved engagement, and meliorate ratings and reviews. Employ StoreKit and the App Store Server API to provide more than seamless support options and resolve in‑app purchase bug quickly and efficiently.

Handling refunds

Let people asking refunds directly within your app by using the beginRefundRequest method and providing a dedicated place in your app for these requests. Yous tin also provide other options — such equally technical support or compensation inside your app — before the option to request a refund. With Report a Problem, users tin can easily request refunds for content they've purchased through Apple tree using any device with a spider web browser.

If youʼve enabled App Store Server Notifications, youʼll receive a notification when someone receives a refund. You can use this information to take action — for example, updating the business relationship balance based on the refund, or restricting admission to content unlocked past the in‑app purchase. If you choose to have activity, inform the user of any changes and let them know if there's anything they need to do. You can also identify whether someone has previously received refunds for any in‑app purchases made in your app using the Get Refund History endpoint.

Apple uses a variety of factors to decide whether a refund asking is approved or denied. To help inform and improve the refund process, y'all tin can send data near a user's consumable in‑app buy to Apple tree when they request a refund. This tin can include details such equally if the buy was used or if you were unable to deliver the buy.

  • View refund request UI best practices
  • Enabling App Shop Server Notifications
  • Treatment refund notifications
  • Providing subscriber support

Managing purchases

If someone redownloads your app or switches to a new device, be sure to immediately provide access to the content or functionality from their past in‑app purchases. Use the currentEntitlements property in StoreKit to sympathise a user's entitlements and provide access accordingly. Your app must also include a restore mechanism for any restorable in‑app purchases, per App Store Review Guideline 3.one.1.

If someone requests support for an in‑app purchase, yous can use the Look Up Guild ID endpoint to make sure you're taking action on the right buy. Merely ask the user for the Gild ID provided on their buy e-mail invoice sent by Apple tree, and so use the endpoint to confirm the invoice and any associated information — for example, whether the user has already received a refund for their purchase — or to match the date and time of the buy with your records.

Measuring performance

Use App Analytics and Sales and Trends in App Store Connect to understand metrics related to your in-app purchases, including sales by content type, number of paying users, average proceeds per paying user, and more than.

View your final proceeds for each month in Payments and Financial Reports in App Store Connect. See your earnings past location and currency, the rates used to catechumen your earnings from local currencies (when available), every bit well as whatever applied taxes and adjustments. You tin likewise download detailed reports of all transactions for each calendar month, including the number of units sold per app or in-app purchase.

  • Measuring app performance
  • Analytics and reporting overview
  • Getting paid overview