In-app purchases

Question

in the App Review Guide for the store, it is stated in the section “Applications using IAP to purchase physical goods or goods and services used outside the application will be rejected.”

See also the IOS Developer Program License Agreement in 11.12 on the App Store Review Guide. I see this in Appendix 2, section 1. 1.11, that "you cannot use the API to purchase applications to offer products or services that will be used outside of your application."

1 / According to my understanding, everything that is not consumed in the application, for example, streamlining, for example, paper books, food delivery, airline tickets, electronics, cannot be performed through the application purchase mechanism. Everything that is consumed in the application, for example, e-books, video streams, audio streams, new levels of the game, etc. (When the content provided complies with the Store App Review Guidelines and the License Agreement with the iOS software developer program) and the user is charged for this content, IAP should be used or may be an option for another payment system, as described in 11.3.

2 / There is no limit to Apple’s 30% fee for purchasing an In App, for example. theoretically, if content is charged for $ 10,000, Apple takes $ 3,000.

Are my assumptions correct?

BR sten

Answer 1

Yes, that's right. Please note, however, that if you use an alternative payment mechanism, Apple still wants to reduce them by 30%.

Answer 2

Indeed, it seems that your assumptions are correct.

The quote from the Apple Guide is 11.3. Applications that use IAP to purchase physical goods or goods and services used outside the application will be rejected.

This is confirmed by applications that are already in the Apple application store, such as Groupon, Fandango, Chegg and others, which charge users credit cards for physical goods or goods consumed outside the application, without transferring the transaction through Apple.

Answer 3

I believe your interpretation is correct. Although in-app purchases should also be priced at poitns, you cannot just enter the amount.

Answer 4

Apple does not make a 30% transaction if it is for the physical good.

As stated above for such products, the application must use a different mechanism, and then Apple IAP to take money. This answer is checked by applications and companies with which I work.

Other libraries for physical payments for iOS may be: Card IO, PayPal , ZooZ, and possibly others.