I have a requirement in my new iPhone application, where I have to made payment like paisapay (Ebay) does. can I open a web page where user can fill information related to payment and server will handle payment? This Transaction will be in secure manner (In standard way). is it possible? Apple will approve app?
If you are using this means to unlock functionality in the app after payment, it will be rejected else it's okay.
As per app review guidelines
11.1 Apps that unlock or enable additional features or functionality with mechanisms other than the App Store will be rejected
11.2 Apps utilizing a system other than the In App Purchase API (IAP) to purchase content, functionality, or services in an app will be
rejected
11.13 Apps that link to external mechanisms for purchases or subscriptions to be used in the app, such as a “buy” button that goes
to a web site to purchase a digital book, will be rejected
For more reference please read the latest App store review guidelines at https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
maybe this might help you
http://www.zooz.com/
FYI: In accordance with Apple’s App Store Guidelines, ZooZ can be used without limitation for purchasing physical goods or goods and services used outside of the application.
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I want to provide auto or even Manuel renewable subscription in my Flutter App for iOS devices. Users can subscribe for 1 Month or 1 year.
Which one is the best? How to implement? Are these secure?
i tired Square Plugin; but got this response from Apple
Guideline 3.1.1 - Business - Payments - In-App Purchase
We noticed that your app offers a subscription with a mechanism other
than the in-app purchase API.
Specifically, subscription to view digital content within the app.
Next Steps
To resolve this issue, please revise your app to ensure that the
subscription for products used within the app is offered using the
in-app purchase API, with the exception of the content specified in
guideline 3.1.3 of the App Store Review Guidelines.
and
In-App Purchase
It may be appropriate to revise your app to use the in-app purchase
API to provide content purchasing functionality.
In-app purchase provides several benefits, including:
The flexibility to support a variety of business models.
Impacting your app ranking by consolidating your sales to one app rather than distributing them across multiple apps.
An effective marketing vehicle to drive additional sales of new content.
For information on in-app purchase, please refer to the following
documentation:
In-App Purchase for Developers
In-App Purchase Programming Guide
For step-by-step instructions on in-app purchase creation within App
Store Connect, refer to App Store Connect Help.
You can't use Square to sell digital goods in your app. Apple will only allow you to use StoreKit.
You can implement this directly, which may be annoying for flutter especially for subscriptions. You can also use an SDK like RevenueCat's Flutter SDK. (Full disclosure, I'm the CEO of RevenueCat).
I developed an app with ionic library and use paypal integration from ionic framework. I uploaded my app at google play and everything went fine. When I published my app in app store my app was rejected with this reason :
We noticed that your app or its metadata enables the purchase of
content, services, or functionality in the app by means other than the
in-app purchase API, which is not appropriate for the App Store.
Does anyone know if the problem is that I use paypal library or that apple doesn't control my transactions so apple can't take some money?
Other methods are allowed, but only under certain conditions:
3.1.5(a) Goods and Services Outside of the App: If your app enables people to purchase goods or services that will be consumed outside of the app, you must use purchase methods other than in-app purchase to collect those payments, such as Apple Pay or traditional credit card entry.
You can read all the app story review guidelines at https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#payments
Please tell me How to make payment with different amount via In app purchase in iphone sdk?? as i am creating an application in which subscription charges deduced from a website and in the same way i want to make payment using my application and subscription amount change all the time.. as apple don't approve paypal for the same purpose. How to handle this problem??
can we use web services for deduction of charges and get response of success or failure from web services?
For in-app purchases of app content, you're only allowed to use Apple's In-App Purchase system. You're not allowed to use paypal or anything else from in the app.
The only way to set the price of an in-app purchase item is in iTunes Connect. StoreKit (the API you use for in-app purchases) gets product prices from iTunes Connect, and there is no API for overriding the prices from within the app.
There's no public API (as far as I know) for changing the price in iTunes Connect, either. Perhaps you can script the normal web browsing interface, or find code someone else has written that scripts it. But the only way that Apple provides for changing the price of an in-app purchase is to log in to the iTunes Connect web site in a web browser.
We're having some trouble with the App Store Review Guidelines, specifically these two points in section 11 - Purchasing and currencies:
11.1
Apps that unlock or enable additional features or functionality with mechanisms other than the App Store will be rejected
11.2
Apps utilizing a system other than the In App Purchase API (IAP) to purchase content, functionality, or services in an app will be rejected
We're making an app for iOS, Android and Blackberry. We wish to provide in-app purchases for iOS and SMS for all three alongside. We can't quite depict from the guidelines whether we can have text underneath an in-app purchase button saying "or SMS XXX to XXXXX" and have them enter the password received back to their phone.
Yes we're using another system to the IAP, but we're offering that at the same time. Could SMS be counted as a different "mechanism"?
Any help on this would be much appreciated. I don't fancy the idea of submitting our app for approval after setting this all up just to have it rejected and have things delayed for weeks.
Thanks in advance :)
Sending an unlock code via SMS will almost certainly be considered a "mechanism other than the App Store" (11.1), and be used as a cause for rejection.
No you can't do that. Apple will reject your app. They don't want any other IAP methods, because they won't earn any money from it! StoreKit is just the easiest and best (and the only :P) API for IAP. Either you just use regular IAP or you will have to stick with Cydia. You can make your app free in Cydia and then manage your own IAP using SMS or how ever you want it to be.
I've read Apple don't allow you to create your own e-commerce iPhone app and integrate into Paypal, some payment gateway and you should only use/ go through the app store using the storekit. How do other companies such as Amazon do it?
Any links to any extra reading would be great,
Thanks in advance.
You must use storekit if your products are all virtual. But if the products are physical (the case with Amazon) then you must not use in app purchase (storekit) and must process payment on your own. Check In App Purchase Programming Guide for the details.