Can I do the auto renewable subscription to Apple without issuing any content? That is, the subscription to use certain features on my server.
From the Apple App Store Review Guidelines:
Apps may only use auto-renewing subscriptions for periodicals
(newspapers, magazines), business Apps (enterprise, productivity,
professional creative, cloud storage), and media Apps (video, audio,
voice), or the App will be rejected
Does your App fall into one of those categories? If yes, then you can use auto-renewing subscriptions.
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I am showing listing of the coupon/offers in the app. On clicking on same I am opening the particular merchant site in safari on the device and making redemption/purchase of the same coupon.
Can this lead to rejection please let me know.
Thanks in advance!!!
NO, if you are selling virtual goods then try to understand below things.
You can use in-app purchases to sell a variety of content, including subscriptions, new features, and services. There are four in-app purchase types you can offer.
Consumable
Users can purchase different types of consumables, such as lives or gems in a game, to further their progress through an app. Consumable in-app purchases are used once, are depleted, and can be purchased again.
Non-Consumable
Users can purchase non-consumable, premium features within an app. Non-consumables are purchased once and do not expire, such as additional filters in a photo app. Apple can host content associated with your non-consumable in-app purchases.
Auto-Renewable Subscriptions
Users can purchase access to services or periodically updated content, such as monthly access to cloud storage or a weekly subscription to a magazine. Users are charged on a recurring basis until they decide to cancel.
Non-Renewing Subscriptions
Users can purchase access to services or content for a limited duration, such as a season pass to streaming content. This type of subscription does not renew automatically, so users need to renew each time.
For more details, https://developer.apple.com/in-app-purchase/
Actually no, if you are not doing in-app purchase. And if your app have something that leads to in-app and to avoid apple in-app you diverting the user in safari then apple definitely reject your app.
In your case, it doesn't seems like the in-app purchase.
Make sure overall app quality and performance is good else apple reject app with other reasons also.
For further details go through this -> https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
Best of luck!
I am developing he application which delivers audio clips as channel basis media over http streaming.
I am planing to use Auto-Renewable Subscriptions in the app and they are renewing on monhly basis as we are updating the contents(Audio clips) of the channel frequently.
I was going through the Apple policy for auto renwing subscription which is,
Definition
Auto-renewable subscriptions allow users to purchase dynamic content, such as magazine subscriptions, for a set duration of time. Subscriptions renew automatically unless the user opts out of the renewal. If the content you want offer doesn’t fit what’s outlined in the App Review Guidelines, consider offering the content through a non-renewing subscription.
Auto-renewable subscriptions can include an incentive to customers who share their contact information with you.
Review Guideline
11.15. Apps may only use auto-renewing subscriptions for periodicals (newspapers, magazines), business Apps (enterprise, productivity, professional creative, cloud storage), and media Apps (video, audio, voice), or the App will be rejected
Its very confusing which method to use in my app (Auto-Renewing or Non-Renewing)
hense there are different types of thoughts/information shared on the internet.
So, my question is which method is appropriate to my app?
Can my product will get approval or not if I stick to use Auto-Renewable Subscriptions?
Further, if theres any complete tutorial/sample app for auto-renewable subscriptions please share with me.
Thanks
You can use the Auto-Renewable Subscriptions if you are going to change the content on certain time period basis.
But if this thing is going to be stopped in future then this way will not work for you. Any time Apple reject your application if he get complaints from any user.
To avoid this I will suggest to go with the Non-Renewing Subscription in that you are the one who is going to manage everything by your own. Apple will only provide facility to do transaction only. Rest of the things like management of time period will be on your hands only. In this case your application will not be rejected by Apple anytime in future as well.
Refer this link for sample code which manages everything..
If I create a CloudKit connected website, where users could buy premium services to the app, an e-purchase system would implemented and when purchase completes, I would store a Purchase recordType and then I would enable use-cases in app. Do you think procedure would violate any Apple rule? And so I could avoid to pay the 30%?!
Apple guidelines:
Apps that link to external mechanisms for purchases or subscriptions to be used in the App, such as a “buy” button that goes to a web site to purchase a digital book, will be rejected.
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#purchasing-currencies 11.13
I'm developing a Newsstand app which uses in-app purchases and auto-renewable subscriptions to unlock and display paid issues of a magazine.
I have access to the database of the magazine's print subscribers and mechanism to identify each one of them with a unique code. I would like to allow people with the code to download digital issues they have subscribed to in print for free. However, I am worried that my app will get rejected from the App Store.
Quote the App Store Review Guidelines:
11.1 Apps that unlock or enable additional features or functionality with mechanisms other than the App Store will be rejected
11.2 Apps utilizing a system other than the In-App Purchase API (IAP) to purchase content, functionality, or services in an App will be rejected
Is allowing print subscribers to download issues they've already paid for a 'mechanism other than the App Store' or a 'system other than IAP'? Is there a best practice to accomplish this without violating the Guidelines? Has anybody solved a similar problem to this?
You should be fine unless you allow these users to register for said code inside your app. That means that you are circumventing in-app purchases and still using iOS to deliver content.
Say you have your own subscription service and people can purchase a subscription through your website. You are within your rights to allow them access to this subscription in the App.
What you are not allowed to do is allow them to purchase a subscription via your website in the App. In this scenario you must use In-App purchases.
We have an application that offers audio and video streaming as a separate service and we'd like it to be an auto renewing subcription. The user might buy this service and not use streaming at all, anyway, the service is available all the time the subcription is active.
Now, I have problems to interpret this sentence from the Apple Review Guidelines for auto-renewable subscriptions:
"Apps may only use auto renewing subscriptions for periodicals (newspapers, magazines), business Apps (enterprise, productivity, professional creative, cloud storage) and media Apps (video, audio, voice), or the App will be rejected."
Would our app fit in this category?
Thanks in advance.
Auto-renewable suscriptions are meant for apps that deliver "periodical" content. Our app just offer the video and audio streaming service on-demand, thus, product should be non-renewable suscription.