Re: In-app Purchases

2018-10-22 Thread bilbosax
Yeah, sadly, our business model is a subscription service at this point for real estate investors. So individual users subscribe to our service. Apple considers a subscription to be an in-app purchase situation. Now that they actually KNOW that people could come to my website to sign up, they ar

Re: In-app Purchases

2018-10-22 Thread Scott Mathewson
Or maybe the issue is individually purchase which you had move to the web In the case of SF etc is purchased by the company and the app users are “employees” of the purchasing company If that’s the case maybe your need to change your business model if that’s possible Sent from my iPhone >

Re: In-app Purchases

2018-10-22 Thread Scott Mathewson
I have been following this thread, my company sell a service for lot of $$ and we have a iPad app that you need to login to look at sales force or work day, no way are they paying apple 30% Sent from my iPhone > On 22 Oct 2018, at 20:21, bilbosax wrote: > > Erik, I am hoping that you may be

Re: In-app Purchases

2018-10-22 Thread bilbosax
Erik, I am hoping that you may be able to apply your sharp mind to this, but I think I may be in an unrecoverable situation with Apple :( I just got off the phone with App Review, and at this point, they KNOW that I am offering a paid subscription service, so it does not seem to matter to them tha

Re: In-app Purchases

2018-10-22 Thread Erik Thomas
nd that for games, they make you do something similar to Apple with in-app purchases. But when I submitted my apps to Android, they just simply went live as if there was no review process. I am concerned that they may one day actually look at my app and have an issue with it. Are people able to sign

Re: In-app Purchases

2018-10-22 Thread bilbosax
games, they make you do something similar to Apple with in-app purchases. But when I submitted my apps to Android, they just simply went live as if there was no review process. I am concerned that they may one day actually look at my app and have an issue with it. Are people able to sign up and

Re: In-app Purchases

2018-10-20 Thread Erik Thomas
Bill: I feel your pain. The big boys are making it harder and harder for the little guys to have a great idea and become successful. >> "Are you sure that you can't get around this if a user signs up on your >> website to create and manage their account, and then just logs into an app >> from

Re: In-app Purchases

2018-10-20 Thread bilbosax
Thanks for the reply guys. I really can't believe this. 10 months ago, I contacted Apple Pay (since you can't talk to App Review until you submit an app), and they told me that since I was a cross-platform "service", I could choose any merchant that I wanted. Now I am being told that I cannot mak

Re: In-app Purchases

2018-10-20 Thread Erik Thomas
Hey Bill: Some more thoughts since I didn't answer all your questions. In-app purchases will get you more subscribers than making them enter a credit card online so there is an advantage you should consider may make up the difference of the cut Apple takes. You are transferring the pa

Re: In-app Purchases

2018-10-20 Thread Erik Thomas
Hi Bill: I'm assuming you expose your sign-up functionality for the Apple reviewer and that's how they know what you're doing. The reason Apple is giving you a hard time is they want their cut of your money and will do whatever they can to make you use in-app purchases for yo

Re: In-app Purchases

2018-10-19 Thread Greg Dove
eady laid out. Once they have signed up they can then move back to the > app and simply Log In. > > I know absolutely nothing about in-app purchases. I always thought that > they > used Apple Pay, which I would prefer not to do. Can the in-app purchase API > work with my Stripe Acco

In-app Purchases

2018-10-19 Thread bilbosax
n. I know absolutely nothing about in-app purchases. I always thought that they used Apple Pay, which I would prefer not to do. Can the in-app purchase API work with my Stripe Account and subscription products that I created there, or would I be forced to transform my whole workflow? Of the two option