iOS in app purchase - "this account does not have permission.."

Question

Ok here goes trying to explain this as clearly as possible:)

• I have developed an app for a partner.

• They wanted to submit the app under their company so I was given the certs and profiles. I packaged the app ...they submitted and all was fine.

• Now I need to update the app with new content. So all this is done and the client has set up new in App purchase products for the app.

The Problem:

When I am testing all of the "product requests" are successful and it displays the description of the product etc.

However when I come to test purchasing with a iTunes test account it does not work. It says

"This account doesn't have permission to make in app purchases. You can change account permissions in iTunes Connect."

However to try and work out the problem, as a test I quickly set up a "test" app in OUR iTunes account and a new bundle id etc and set up same IAP products. I then changed the app ID for the actual client app to point at this. And this works fine no problem what soever when testing via Xcode on device.

I am at a loss at what is wrong here as when I did the original app all worked as expected as in I was able to use a iTunes test account I had set up to test their app.

Any ideas what might be going on?

regards

ade

Answer 1

Apparently the test user account needs to be on the same apple developer account as your app!