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Pierre Espenan
Pierre Espenan

Reputation: 4066

Selling something inside an application on iOS

I've heard there are some precautions to take to develop a market in an application.

I'm developing an application for a football club. I would like to integrate a kind of market to sell stadium seats.

Someone told me Apple will refuse the application if I integrate it directly inside the app (using Obj-C, communicating with PHP pages).

According to him, I should redirect the user to an external web page (using Safari app for example) to realize the transaction.

Apple does not really communicate about that kind of information.

Do you know anything about it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3387

Answers (5)

Vivi
Vivi

Reputation: 972

You can't use In App Purchase to buy "real life things" such as stadium seats : http://developer.apple.com/news/ios/pdf/in_app_purchase.pdf

The only solution is to use an external payment solution.

The Movies Now app implements such a thing : http://moviesnowapp.com/

Upvotes: 3

kgutteridge
kgutteridge

Reputation: 8981

You cannot use Apple in app purchase to purchase non digital goods, if you have an existing payment provider or user account you could use that, take a look at the eBay app which has Paypal integration

Upvotes: 0

Aditya
Aditya

Reputation: 4396

Yes you have to use InApp purchase only to apply unlock functionality,and to use In App purchase there are certain scenarios which can be implemented.

You can find in detail about In App functionality on

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/StoreKitGuide/AddingaStoretoYourApplication/AddingaStoretoYourApplication.html

Secondly if you want to implement In App purchase,there is a very good tutorial which i found very helpful and was easily able to integrate inApp in my application and it was also later on approved by apple.

http://troybrant.net/blog/2010/01/in-app-purchases-a-full-walkthrough/

Cheers

Upvotes: 0

ingh.am
ingh.am

Reputation: 26752

I'm not so sure if Apple will reject your app on these grounds. How can they know what your php pages are doing if you put them in a WebView? Also, think about services like Sky or Spotify that require a subscription. Apple do not take a cut on this, so you could set up a similar thing whereby your users have an account online that they can purchase tickets from and the iPhone is simply a thin client for your online services...

Upvotes: 0

Nickolay Olshevsky
Nickolay Olshevsky

Reputation: 14160

Yes, you can use only in-app purchases to sell anything in your app, otherwise Apple will reject your app.

Upvotes: 0

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