Why Apple refund payments to our users without asking us

The service we provide to our client is a short videos from famous people, like stars, politics, singer etc. So the whole process looks like this:

  1. User open the app, choose one author (famous person) from a list by clicking on author's picture.
  2. Tap a message author should say on the final video.
  3. Pay for that video by Apple in app purchase.
  4. Then author receive notification about new order, open the APP and record a 1-2 minutes short video.
  5. When video is done, author tap on Send button and user receive author's video.
  6. On that point the order is complete. We pay author royalty and get our commission as an agent.

Then user open apple account and ask Apple for refund of that order. And Apple give user's money back after 2-3 days. In this case we provided service to that user (by sending video), paid royalty to author and gave user's money back. Now we have many orders like that and we loose so much money.

So what we could do to not loose our money?

Thank you for the feedback, we are continually reviewing our features and opportunities for improvements. Please do watch our WWDC session on this topic and also check out the consumption API where you can let Apple know about consumed purchases. https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10175/ https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreserverapi/send_consumption_information

If you have further feedback, please feel free to submit them through http://feedbackassistant.apple.com

Why Apple refund payments to our users without asking us
 
 
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