Auto-renewal In-app Purchases free trial period and subscription amount remittance - ios

In an iOS application offering IAP, When will be the money be remitted from the bank account, when subscribing a product that is offering free trial for a month.
Will it be on the first time subscription itself OR on completion of the free trial period?
Background of the story: One customer has raised concern that money was remitted on subscription itself when he has free trial period available on subscribe button click itself.Cannot find any document saying about amount remittance.
Saw in the iTunes product configuration page this will be only done on free trial completion time.Need confirmation.Please share if any supported link or document on the same.

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Does free trial cancelations show in App Store Connect/ iTunes Connect?

We have an app which has subscriptions with either a monthly or yearly plan. We also offer a 7 Day Free Trial. In App Store Connect there is a metric called "Cancelled Subscriptions".
The questions is: When a user cancels their Free Trial prior to being charged, does this also get triggered as "Cancelled Subscriptions"?

Does free trial achievable via introductory price in IAP ?(IOS)

Summing up my R&D free trial via introductory price only meant to be free for specific time after customer bought subscription.
I want that feature to be initially free for a month and then user buy the subscription.
How can I achieve this ?Is it achievable via Introductory price?
Yes It is achievable by introductory price. You can choose free trial
duration for a month inside introductory price's.
With Free trial, New subscribers access content for free for a
specified duration(say month). Their subscription begins immediately but theywon’t be billed until the free trial period is over.
Check it out for more details : docs
If you are asking that, if user can get free month trial subscription without going for IAP subscription purchase. You need to set logic for that by your own, that after user has installed your app, he/she should be able to use services for a month and after a month all those services should get blocked. and it will be again enabled only after user purchase subscription.

Does free trial period for In App Purchases in iOS only work once?

We are integration IAP in our iOS11 app and want to give new users some start offerings with a long free trial period.
My implementation alternatives are:
Use auto-renewable subscription with a generous free trial (like 2 months for monthly subscription), and rely on Apple that a user that cancels can't restart and get 2 months again. Is this correct?
or
Make two IAPs, present the one with free trial to new users and present the one without free trails to a user that has canceled or stopped the free trail version. But users might find the IAP on App store (specially now when Apple will start feature IAP) and buy it anyway?
What is the best thing to do?
I'm managing an application with InApp Purchase and auto-renewable subscription.
As far as I know, InApp Purchase is linked to user AppStore account, and free trial can be consume only once per account.
If you present the same product after a free trial period, the user will resume your auto-renewable subscription and not benefit the free trial again.
So in my mind the first option is the best.
However if you would like to implement the second one, you should know that the new IAP management feature in your product store page allow you to show and hide the subscriptions you want.
For more information about this new feature, take a look at the WWDC video : What's New in StoreKit

iOS Auto-Renewable Subscriptions Free Trial Not Being Indicated

I am having some issues adding a free trial to an existing Auto-Renewable IAP. From what I understand, you only need to add a "free trial" duration in iTunesConnect in your IAP for this to work. but I am not seeing any update in the description of the purchase indicating the free trial. When looking at other apps that do offer a free trial, the apple subscription dialog that pops up indicates:
Subscription Terms
Subscribe to <IAP NAME>. this subscription will start with a free trial lasting <TRIAL DURATION> after which youy will be charged <PRICE> on a <Duration> basis
while my own dialog still shows (not indicating that there is a free trial):
Subscription Terms
Subscrube to <IAP NAME>. This subscription will automatically renew every year for <PRICE>
Am I missing something in iTunes connect? Do I need to enable free trials another way?
What I have tried:
Using a sandbox account with an Auto-Renewable Sub that is not
cleared for sale
Using a fresh iTunes account on an Auto-Renewable
Sub that is cleared for sale and I have temporarily added the free
trial duration in iTunes connect
Using a sandbox account on an Auto-Renewable Sub that is cleared for
sale and I have temporarily added the free trial duration in iTunes
connect
Had the same issue. In my case, it even didn't show me the Subscription Terms alert only the Subscription Confirmation.
The problem seems to be with the Sandbox Testing account rather than with the implementation. You probably didn't have the trial set up in your IAP and then you created Sandbox tester and tested it like this. Then you added the free trial to the IAP, but the Sandbox tester has in cache or somewhere that this IAP doesn't have trial.
QUICK FIX: Create a new Sandbox Tester in iTunesConnect.

When will money deduction happens for free trial auto renewal subscription?

I have a 1-month auto renewal product with 1-month free trial configured in my iTunes account. As per my understanding amount deduction should happen after the 1-month free trial end. But for users in production, money deduction happens right after subscription and even before free trial starts. Is this an expected scenario or can anyone please guide me?
Auto-renewable subscriptions give users access to content or services
from within your app on an ongoing basis. At the end of each
subscription duration, the subscription will automatically renew until
a user chooses to cancel it.
Auto-renewable subscriptions provide a simple way to offer free trials
to users. When users sign up for a subscription with a free trial,
their subscription begins immediately but they won’t be billed until
the free trial period is over. How long a free trial can be depends on
the duration of the subscription offering. For example, a one-month
subscription cannot offer a free trial of longer than one month. For
more details on free trial durations, see Subscription Properties.

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