Duration must not be mentioned in title or description of auto-renewing subscriptions?

UUsually you create multiple IAPs each with a different duration. The name of such a group of products should not contain the duration as the duration is different for each IAP within that group. The user will be able to select a "super magazine subscription" that renews every "1 month" or every "3 months". They do not want to select a "super one month magazine subscription" that renews every "1 month". Just because you are offering only one duration doesn't change the structure of the system. Consider how you would assign names if you were offering multiple renewal time periods.

You missed the point, he is talking about the IAP "Subscription Display Name" not about the "Subscription Group Display Name"

here is how the data looks like for IAPs with the same features but different duration (title is the field which should NOT contain the duration):

[{
    "productId": "monthly_plan",
    "title": "Premium Membership",
    "description": "Premium Membership will give you access to all of our premium content",
    "price": "USD$14.99"
}, {
    "productId": "quarterly_plan",
    "title": "Premium Membership",
    "description": "Premium Membership will give you access to all of our premium content",
    "price": "USD$35.99"
}, {
    "productId": "yearly_plan",
    "title": "Premium Membership",
    "description": "Premium Membership will give you access to all of our premium content",
    "price": "USD$119.99"
}]

and that doesn't really make any sense.

The logic is described here:

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/LanguagesUtilities/Conceptual/iTunesConnectInAppPurchase_Guide/Chapters/CreatingInAppPurchaseProducts.html

The user will see the following:

"Do you want to subscribe to SPORTS for 2 months?"

Where the capitalized word "SPORTS" is the "Display name" for the product that they have chosen.

If the Display Name includes the duration (e.g. "2 MONTHS OF SPORTS") "then the alert will be:

"Do you want to subscribe to 2 MONTHS OF SPORTS for 2 months?"

Hi PBK,

but this rule causes another problem:

The "Subscription Display Name" is used in the Mac App Store when the "Top In-App Purchases" are displayed.

We now have e.g. two "AR" subscription, one monthly for 59,99€ and one yearly for 599,99€.

Both subscriptions have "AR" as the "Subscription Display Name", because I'm not allowed to add the duration.

The result is this list in the "Mac App Store" for our app "TigerCreate 2":

Top In-App Purchases

-----------------------------

1. AR 599,99€

2. AR 59,99€

3. 3D 29,99€

4. Standard 14,99€

5. 3D 329,99€

This confuses our customers, and they think stuff like "What? Do I get only a littel bit of AR functionality for 59,99€, and do I have to pay 599,99€ for full functionality? Per Month? Per week? What?".

So it would be essential to add the duration into the "Subscription Display Name" if it is used in the Mac App Store.

Best

Andreas

Good point. I noticed that your post got buried in this forum so I am responding to move your post up to the top.

You can file a feature enhancement using the bug reporter down at the bottom of the page.