I am somewhat of a beginner in mobile app development. I have some questions about IAP and commissions. One of my clients has a website that basically acts as the middle man which connects the trainers and participants. Basically, the trainers pay my client a subscription fee and they can list the kind of trainings they have to offer (ex. cardio, weight lifting, ...etc.). These trainings can be one-to-one, one-to-many, or one-to-few depending on the trainers. When the participants see something that they like, they would make a payment directly to the trainers via the website. To save time, we will probably do some kind of webview app. Having said all these, my questions are as follows,
- As far as the IAP is concerned, can the payments between the trainers and the participants use third party payment method and ONLY the subscription fee from the trainers to the client use the storeKit/Apple IAP plugin?
- If the answer to the question above is Yes (i.e. using Apple IAP for subscription only but use a third party payment for the transactions between the trainers and the participants), does it mean that the commissions ONLY apply on the subscription fees and NOT the payments between the trainers and the participants?
- If the answer to Question 1 is No (i.e. ALL the payments have to go through Apple IAP), the commissions would apply to both the payments between the trainers and the participants and the monthly subscription payments, right? In this case though, to my understanding, when using the Apple IAP plugin, essentially, all the payments go to Apple temporarily. After taking out the commissions, the payments would be released to the bank account on file with the App Store within 45 days of the last day of the fiscal month in which the transaction was completed. Am I correct? And if so, as far as the business model on the App is concerned, my client would collect the money released from Apple and then distribute the money to the appropriate trainers. Am I correct?
