I'm having difficulty understanding whether a tour guide app should use IAP to purchase tours or Apple Pay.
My app has tour listings which the end user (iOS users) can enroll into by purchasing the tour event. They can view listings but not details of the tour until they purchase. Once purchased, the tour can be accessed and the app guides them to physically travel to a location via a map. Once they reach the location, the app will show description about the location and then point to the next destination.
The tour is created by clients (web app users) who set up the tour, put pinpoints on a map and descriptions about locations in the tour.
What I don't understand is whether this type of payment is covered by IAP or is it considered an external service and Apple pay will suffice.
I also do not see a way to create IAP items for created tours on the web (no JS sdks to access and create IAP items). I don't believe they are covered by consumable/non-consumable items described in the IAP documentation either. They are not items bundled into the app. Instead they are entities stored and accessed via external services.
Since the content is dynamic and is created outside of the iOS platform (on the web) and is accessed via http API in the mobile app, I'm not sure whether IAP makes sense for the app.
My app has tour listings which the end user (iOS users) can enroll into by purchasing the tour event. They can view listings but not details of the tour until they purchase. Once purchased, the tour can be accessed and the app guides them to physically travel to a location via a map. Once they reach the location, the app will show description about the location and then point to the next destination.
The tour is created by clients (web app users) who set up the tour, put pinpoints on a map and descriptions about locations in the tour.
What I don't understand is whether this type of payment is covered by IAP or is it considered an external service and Apple pay will suffice.
I also do not see a way to create IAP items for created tours on the web (no JS sdks to access and create IAP items). I don't believe they are covered by consumable/non-consumable items described in the IAP documentation either. They are not items bundled into the app. Instead they are entities stored and accessed via external services.
Since the content is dynamic and is created outside of the iOS platform (on the web) and is accessed via http API in the mobile app, I'm not sure whether IAP makes sense for the app.