Multiple auto-renewable subscriptions

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Created Jun ’15

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Hello,

I have the following subscriptions plan to implement, but I am not sure if it's possible, or if I am developing the correct ideas.

You can subscribe to multiple worlds in a game which are offered like this:

1 world subscription - price1

5 worlds subscription - price2

10 worlds subscription - price 3

unlimited worlds subscriptions - price 4

1. My client's request is to make them auto-renewable, which from what I've read there are some limitations to them. But my question is if it's possible for a user to buy subscriptions to 3 worlds (meaning subscribe one by one, paying price1 for each), if it's permitted?

2. What happens if the user afterwards buys the 5 worlds subscription. Is it correct to just add it up to the old three ones? I mean to have the old three ones and to also have the 5 bundle subscription?

3. Also how can I cancel the old subscriptions if the user buys at some point the unlimited subscription? Is this possible, or I should just let him know that he must cancel on his own the old subscriptions, because as far as I read I cannot cancel his other subscriptions if they are auto-renewable.

4. As far as I read about it, all the worlds I have in a game, must be added in apple as products, each world with a product Id? Have I understood correctly?

I am a little bit confused, cause subscription plans it's a new fields, so thanks a lot for understanding.

Carmen

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PBK OP

Jun ’15

I will leave it to others to respond how you might do this with autorenewables. I will just point out that:

1) it's real easy with non-renewing subscriptions. You open up additional subscription options if the user has already purchased a few worlds. You can determine the overlap interval and create all kinds of interim options.

2) how many of your users do you really hope to fool into renewing automatically who would not renew through a non-renewing subscription - renewal takes all of 30 seconds once every month.

3) you could sell Tokens and exchange those tokens for various periods/worlds

4) Apple has said that autorenewables are really for episodic content that changes with the renewal period (e.g. monthly magazines) so they may well reject any autorenewable system you devise for this purpose.

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