Promo Codes for In App Purchases

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Created Jun ’15

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I've seen several stories posted in 2014 that Apple looked like they were going to allow developers to generate promo codes for in app purchases.

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/05/15/developers-promo-codes-in-app-purchase/

But I haven't seen any evidence of this. I have a free app with a subscription model using non-renewing subscriptions to access the data.

I would love to be able to offer a free trial of a couple days like Android IAP allows so that users can see what is to offer, or barring this, a promo code to a subscription.

From what I can tell, Apple does allow trials for auto-renewing newsstand apps, but ours doesn't fit that.

And somehow EA got permission to give out IAP promo codes, but us smaller developers don't have that option.

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PBK OP

Jul ’15

There are many apps that offer a free trial period, including the new Apple Music thing.

You need to be sure the user can't delete and reinstall the app and get another free trial period. I do that (OptionPosition+) by writing to the user's iCloud account key-value file or to the keychain. The guidelines require that once the free trial period is over the app retain useful finctionality - it can convert to a 'lite' version.

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