I have an app which has been on the App Store for around two weeks and has 170 downloads so far. I am using iAd banners and I have some friends who have clicked on the banner and it says I have made $0 so far, at what point is this likely to change ? Is it possible that apple has an error or I have made an error?
Well, first of that depends if you have set up iAd correctly and linked everything to your account and are enrolled in the iAd contract. If you did link everything and are have agreed to the contract with Apple about iAd, then you may not get revenue very quickly from them. iAd works on a CPM basis, which is Cost Per Mille
which means that the advertiser pays per 1000 impressions or clicks. You have to have way more then just a "few clicks from your friends" to start earning actual revenue. Also, your friends pressing the banners is against the iAd rules and terms and could get you banned, so I would highly advise against it. Lastly, you should just check if the following apple:
1) Linked up code to custom Identifier from Apple
2) Signed the iAd worldwide contract with Apple
3) Set up everything correctly
If all those were made you have to wait and earn more to start earning.
Hope that helps,
Julian
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I know many developers are using linkshare.com as an affiliate to track app conversions for paid apps. Does linkshare.com provide conversion data for free apps? All signs point to no but I thought I would ask.
We want to be able to track particular marketing campaigns with referrer codes and see how many downloads result from each campaign.
Unfortunately no. "Sales" of free apps are not returned in either LinkShare's or TradeDoubler's report. You will, of course, see all of the other items the user bought during that 72 hour period that your affiliate cookie was active but those again will only be paid apps, music, movies, etc.
Even if you were using the Signature Tracking provided by LinkShare to track specific campaigns you are still going to have a hard time determining if the sale that is reported in your Signature Orders report was specifically your app or a competitors app at a similar price as the reporting is only at category level.
Good luck!
I have been stuck in a strange situation, according to my requirement, I need to track the resellers of my app, i.e. I will be publishing link of my app in the iTunes-Store on 3 or more different sites(The re seller's sites).
According to my promise which I made to these resellers, I will provide a share of my profit.
So here I have to track from which link did the user came to the APP-Store.
Any suggestions or solutions will be Thankful.
I think the only way to do it will be server-side. Links at your resellers should point to your server, where you log the source of link (resellers web page) and redirect request to AppStore. But you'll have no way of knowing, which of this requests ended up with a purchase.
The only way to do this for real is to get them to become iTunes affiliates and provide reports back to you. They should use the iTunes referral to make the sale (they will get a small cut from Apple) -- Apple will report that back to them, and then they can prove to you that they made a sale, and then you pay based on that.
Reserve the right to audit them -- meaning that they will have to show you the report directly from the iTunes affiliate site.
I assume that iTunes actually tells them what they sold, but you would need to check that.
Another idea (which may or may not make sense based on what your app does) is to make personalized versions of your app for each reseller. If there's some way to incorporate a very simple feature that is personalized (and makes sense), then you can upload the same app multiple times and assume all sales are coming from that reseller.
So, for example, if the app were an exercise tracker, and the resellers were gyms -- you could customize the app for each gym and add their schedule and contact info to it. Then, sell the app as an Excerise Tracker for XYZ Gym and let them promote it and get a cut of sales.
I have an app that aggregates apps from the app store for a specific audience, and I use the iTunes Affiliate program (via LinkShare).
When a user taps the download button, it opens safari with the affiliate link and redirects to the AppStore. That's how I see it happening in other apps as well ("Free App Tracker", for example).
However, while LinkShare counts the clicks, I don't see any "orders", and I know there should be a few.
The clicks count gets updated the same day, while the orders count didn't get updated at all (still 0) for 3 days now.
Do I need to call the url in any specific way? or do LinkShare take their time with orders reports?
Thanks!
LinkShare track the orders in different way: there is the transaction date which is the date when the purchase was done, and then there is the "process" date which is when the transaction has been processed by the LinkShare system.
You can read more about it.
A few notes:
Are the purchases you that know happend via your link happen in the US store?
- The LinkShare program only support the US and CA programs so if the sale was made in another country you won't see any sales data.
iTunes advises that you wait three to five days for your sale to show up. I've seen sales the next day and sometimes they take longer. Typically, however, they are no later then a few days after you get the receipt for the sale.
You can call your link in a way that the redirects are processed in the background. Check out this resource for details - http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#qa/qa1629/_index.html
Hope that helps.
I am developing a simple Fund raising app which hold 4 batches (Keep 10$,20$,30$,40$). people who willing to donate will buy these batches through in app purchase.
My concern here is .... is it possible for iphone client to get statistical information from apple through code. I do agree that i can see statistical information if i login through ituneconnect. I just want to get through code so that i can display inside my app.
Note: I know that i can have my own server to store statistical info. i don't want to do that because its a small app
please suggest me regarding this.
Thanks in advance
jenie
Do you mean stats as in how many people have bought each tier?
You can't get that information programmatically for a couple reasons. First it isn't available until the next day, second it is only available via itunesconnect and apps are prohibited from scraping apple sites.
You would need to setup a server to host the statistics and update the server every morning with the new stats.
According to the Apple Guidelines your app probably wouldn't be accepted to the store
(link)
20. Contests, sweepstakes, lotteries, and raffles
20.1 Sweepstakes and contests must be sponsored by the developer/company of the app
20.2 Official rules for sweepstakes and contests, must be presented in the app and make it clear that Apple is not a sponsor or involved in the activity in any manner
20.3 It must be permissible by law for the developer to run a lottery app, and a lottery app must have all of the following characteristics: consideration, chance, and a prize
20.4 Apps that allow a user to directly purchase a lottery or raffle ticket in the app will be rejected
21. Charities and contributions
21.1 Apps that include the ability to make donations to recognized charitable organizations must be free
21.2 The collection of donations must be done via a web site in Safari or an SMS
I am developing an application in which user can purchase any image he likes. For this i have implemented the in app purchase functionality as consumable products. That means if user purchase the same image again, he has to pay for that again. But apple rejected this application by saying that the product should be non-consumable in this case.
Now the problem is i have to create unique product id for every image and the number of images are around 1800. So, do i need to make the 1800 ids in the itunesconnect?
Also, there is a parameter in itunesconnect that:
For Review
When you have tested your in app purchase and are ready to approve it and submit it for review, upload a screenshot below. This is for review purposes only and will not be displayed in the Store.
For this do i need to add screen shot by testing each and every image?
Please provide any simple solution for the problem.
Thank s in advance...
If you have 1800 unique products, you will need 1800 entries in the store.
There isn't an automated means for uploading product information so you will have to do it all by hand.
Note that you maybe also come away with a generic image IAP object, that's consumable. But you have to provide additional server infrastructure to make sure a account can be created and purchases can be restored.
And even then, it seems to be a thin line. There are however apps in the store that work this way.
Update (Feb 2012): It's not working anymore. Apple rejected the latest app using this technique. I'm sorry.