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Anthony Main
Anthony Main

Reputation: 6068

In-app Purchase Loop Hole

OK so have a problem with the whole in-app purchase review process and hope someone can shed some light/experience on it.

We have a project which is a magazine for the ipad. Each issue requires an in-app purchase before it is downloaded. The issues are served from an XML feed when a new one is published.

The problem is, how can we have Apple review an in-app purchase without displaying the new issue. They wont be able to see it in the live binary. If we publish the issue we have to say "unavailable", which looks extremely unprofessional to the customer, until the in-app purchase is reviewed.

We dont want to have to publish a new binary each time a new issue is published as thats a pointless exercise for the customer

Thanks, any suggestions apart from change message to "coming soon" would be apprciated. The only other thought we had is a flag in the app settings which displays "unavailable issues"

Upvotes: 2

Views: 645

Answers (3)

Di Wu
Di Wu

Reputation: 6448

If you login to your iOS developer account, you'll find this Getting Started with in App Purchase pdf file, which has information that you'll need in your setting up with your iAP item.

Specifically, I think what you need is an item belongs to the category named Subscriptions. This should solve your problem.

Upvotes: 1

user535617
user535617

Reputation: 644

You could always just keep some kind of "sample" issue available for the purposes of the user demoing the software.

That, or a few select pages from the active issue could be specified as "demo pages", as in they would be viewable from a demo version of the software.

Upvotes: 0

Nickolay Olshevsky
Nickolay Olshevsky

Reputation: 14160

You can use consumable purchases, i.e. right to download 1 article. 5 purchases - 5 articles. Or, give a user subscription for month or so.

Upvotes: 0

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