Auto-Renewable Subscription (Apple)
BUSINESS
Auto-renewable subscriptions provide access to content, services, or premium features in your app on an ongoing basis. They automatically renew at the end of their duration until the user chooses to cancel. Subscriptions are available on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS.
Great subscription apps justify the recurring payment by providing ongoing value and continually innovating the app experience. If you’re considering implementing the subscription model, plan to regularly update your app with feature enhancements or expanded content.
Many types of apps can take advantage of subscriptions, including apps that offer new game levels, episodic content, software as a service, or cloud support. Other appropriate subscriptions include apps that offer consistent, substantive updates, or access to libraries or collections of content. You can offer subscriptions (a type of in-app purchase) alongside other in-app purchase types.
Get business guidance for auto-renewable subscriptions.
Consumable In-App Purchase (Apple)
BUSINESS
Consumable in‑app purchases that are single use and can be purchased again.
Use them to provide different types of consumables, such as lives or gems used to further progress in a game, boosts in a dating app to increase profile visibility, or digital tips for creators within a social media app. They’re frequently offered in apps and games that use the freemium business model.
Current Entitlements (Apple)
BUSINESS
The current entitlements sequence emits the latest transaction for each product the user has an entitlement to, specifically:
Products that the App Store has refunded or revoked don’t appear in the current entitlements. Consumable in-app purchases also don't appear in the current entitlements. To get transactions for unfinished consumables, use the unfinished or all sequences in Transaction.
Non-Consumable In-App Purchase (Apple)
BUSINESS
Non-Consumable are In-App Purchases that are purchased once and don't expire.
Provide non-consumable or premium features. Examples include additional filters in a photo app, extra brushes in an illustration app, or cosmetic items in a game. Non-consumable in-app purchases can offer Family Sharing.
Non-Renewing Subscription (Apple)
BUSINESS
A subscription which users can purchase to access a services or content for a limited duration, such as a season pass to in-game content. This type of subscription doesn't renew automatically, so users need to purchase a new subscription once it concludes if they wish to retain access.
Pending Transaction (Apple)
BUSINESS
A transaction that has not been verified nor revoked, and which is pending approval from the bank or a family member (i.e.a guardian).
Revoked Transaction (Apple)
BUSINESS
A transaction that was bought and then cancelled, or refunded.
This transaction often comes with a reason that describe why the App Store may refund a transaction or revoke it from family sharing.
StoreKit (Apple)
TECHNOLOGY
Use StoreKit to support in-app purchases for a safe, secure purchase experience. The StoreKit framework and in-app purchase APIs handle purchases end to end, including retrieving product information, processing payments, and delivering the product.
Learn more about StoreKit
Transaction History (Apple)
BUSINESS
A technological sequence that offers you access to all the transactions (Downloads, In-App Purchase or Subscriptions) that a user made with your app.
All the information has been cryptographically signed by the App Store and includes things like:
- The app version that the user originally purchased the In-App Purchase or Subscription from the App Store.
- The date the user originally purchased the app from the App Store.
