Apple Subscription
gingagaming
FREELANCE GS DEVMember Posts: 1,696
I have an old client who has asked me to change his game from free with IAP to a monthly Apple subscription. Is this handled like an IAP with a product_id in the purchase table (and then I have to add rules to track that sub) or just handled by Apple their end (as they require a product_id on submission). As you can guess, I haven't handled a sub before! Any guidance appreciated.
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From what I remember, you can't do that "up-front". Basically it would still be Free with IAP. It's just everything would that the IAP is a Subscription and everything would be locked behind the IAP. The only other options that sort of matches that is getting into Apple Arcade?
What he wants is to remove the IAP and make the game whole but then instead of paying a one time payment for the game instead pay a subscription to apple
Unfortunately, I don't think that's possible. It's either one time payment. The only way to do subscriptions is via IAP.
Thank you adent42. I dont mind doing it via IAP, I just want to know if I have to manage the subscription. (For example, timestamp and expire and limit the access) or does apple do this and all I need to do is add the product_id to the table?
I'll double check but i think the subscription IAP's status is based on the status of the subcription, so all you need is the table value and to check if the purchase is valid in the table.
Yah, so if the iOS IAP statuses for a subscription are "purchased" when active and "expired" if purchased but no longer active.
Perfect, thats just what im looking for. So Apple changes the status and I just react to that