Hello,
We have a subscription-based app that we'd like to add an in-app trial registration process to, after which payment would be taken through a sales process outside of the app.
Right now we have in-app links to our website's homepage and then another link to register from our website's homepage if they want an account. Once they go through the trial period, we connect with them to go through a payment process that is entirely outside of our app. We've understood this to be acceptable to the Apple Purchase Policy. We have no in-app purchases at all.
With regard to moving the free trial registration to our app, we've read the Apple Purchase Policy so many times and it's unclear if a free trial registration inside the app (and eventually where payment is solicited and directed entirely outside of the app) might violate this policy.
If they chose not to pay after the trial period ends, they would simply lose access to the app (their registration would be restricted). If they did choose to continue with their subscription, they would communicate with us / be communicated with by us entirely outside of the app and would go through a totally separate sales process involving human sales people.
Any examples in the wild, or experiences that anyone has to help us understand how to be compliant, but also flexible to allow free trial registration in our app?
Thanks!