I am developing a native iPhone app, where end user can purchase calling cards of different rates.
The problem I am facing is that, I don't what can be several options to integrate payment / online purchase feature and they can be integrated.
Few sites I have read that, you can implement this using In App Purchase, but there using In App purchase Apple will take 30% of payment. Also, I need to register each of my product with Apple -> iTunes Connect -> Manage In App Purchase, which is again not a feasible thing to do. As my products would have different rates and they get updated regularly, so every time I have make changes in iTunes Connect.
Another option can be to integrate Paypal for purchases but, here I have open the web interface (either safari browser or UIWebView) from native app when it comes to make payment. Problem here is that, opening the web interface would fine, but I need to come to native app and same point in the app from where I did the payment. Also, I don't have prior experience of integrating Paypal.
Please guide me to find the best suitable option to integrate payment feature in native app.
You definitely need to read the Apple-iOS-Standard-Agreement, to find answers about InAppPurchase:
Attachment-2 to the iOS-Standard-Agreement Feb. 15th 2011, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2:
... this makes clear that you are not allowed to use InAppPurchase for selling calling cards. InAppPurchase is only allowed for content & functionality you provide the user within your app.
AS InAppPurchase is not the way you can go, you may use the Mobile Payments Library for iOS, PayPal release last year. The lib is well documented and ships with sample code:
https://www.x.com/community/ppx/xspaces/mobile/mep
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I'm developing an iOS app where users can ask for advice to influential people on their subject. In order to interact with these people you have to pay the price they set. Once you pay you are able to engage with them on a private chat.
There is an app called Healthtap which does almost the same but with doctors.
I wanted to know if we might be able to use paypal and stripe payment systems instead of apple's.
For more info, I'm building it with HTML5 and making it native with Phonegap
Thanks!
You "have" to use apple's system when paying will add more content to the app, which seems to me, is what you are trying to do.
From Apple's In-App Purchase Programs:
You should read this if you are interested in offering additional
paid functionality to users from within your application.
You can use other payment methods when you are not adding new functionality to the app but rather buy something else in the real world. This is the reason why apps such as Amazon's kindle stopped selling ebooks through their apps, since they did not want to share their profits with apple.
No, Apple does not allow any third-party payment methods to be presented in the app itself; it's IAP or nothing.
What you CAN do is have the third-party payment system as part of your web site and have your users make payments through the web site. You will then need some authentication system in the app that uses to validate the user's payment.
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.
I would like to know my options for letting users make payments in my iPhone application for goods in an e-Commerce store. This will be an app rather than a mobile website.
Ideally, I would just like to use Authorize.net or SagePay - is this possible? I found some posts from a year ago saying that Apple only allow their In App purchase, is this still true?
Thanks for any guidance.
Assuming you have access to Apple's developer member center, have a look at the App Store Review Guidelines, section 11.
To my understanding it is allowed (or required even) to have your own payment-system, as long as you're not selling (digital) items that are supposed to be used in the App.
I am currently building an app for an existing and large Royalty Free music library. They sell stock music to be used in productions/websites/commercials etc. What they sell is the license to use the music in your production.
What they want to build is an iPhone and iPad app that is basically an extension of their website. Users can browse and purchase music through the app. I am building a web service to connect to the existing website and will most likely use Webview to handle payment via PayPal. The user is then sent a download link for their music via email after successful purchase
The question I have is whether Apple will reject due to the way we are selling goods. This is an already established business and the iphone apps are just an extension of that.
Any help is really appreciated.
If you sold using in-app purchase (30% to Apple) they would probably accept it. Otherwise not, and you should stick with a web app (which you could highly customize for the iPhone/iPad).
Most likely would get rejected. One option might be to use the iPhone app to browse and sample the tracks, but link out to a mobile safari web page to complete the transaction.
It will definitely get rejected.
My app had a link to our website that had a puchase link. They rejected the app for that too.
Buying directly from the app is not allowed.
I am developing an iphone app and it demands me to sell some real world products with it. I know that guidelines of Apple would not permit me to sell them through In App purchase functionality, So for now i am concentrating more on paypal integrated way. Still, i have ambiguities in mind whether it would be appropriate way or not because i have gone through several forums which says that apple reject such applications. Any input on it would be great help.
Thanks in advance
An iOS application I developed offers 2 payment methods instead of in-app purchasing (also for real world goods). This application has been accepted and has been in the iTunes Store for a few months now.
The way it works is that the application sends you to a mobile-optimized website (opened in Mobile Safari). After payment, the mobile-optimized website shows the app icon + special link "application_name://command", when tapped the application relaunches and uses the "command" text to update some local data & showing a "Thank you for your payment" screen.
Further reading:
http://developer.apple.com/library/safari/#featuredarticles/iPhoneURLScheme_Reference/Introduction/Introduction.html