I haven't yet found documentation that describes the behavior of the group or organization subscriptions at the time of renewal.
Here are some examples.
For Apple's scenario, a run club, say a coach orders a subscription for 'the team'. The app does seasonal (3 month) and annual (yearly) passes. One could collect group dues outside of the app store and help make the purchase.
- What happens at time of renewal?
- Does the person that made the original purchase have to manage that?
- How do they add or remove subscription users as club members may change?
- How about refunds?
In another scenario, B2B, either education or enterprise. With Apple Business providing a free basic MDM (Business Essentials), I can see a lot more use for this case. The same questions apply. Maybe it is a productivity app for students or employees. The video described there being 'seats' that one could assign in Apple Business the say way that apps are assigned (and removed).
- What happens at the time of renewal?
- How about refunds?
The video teased that management will be available in the future. To determine how 'seamless' the experience is, or to provide feedback, it would be good to even get some still screenshots of what this will look like. Choosing to go individual subscription vs group/org heavily depends on how much work it is removing from the individual consumer (and moving to a single or few administrators).
- When will some visuals of the 'group' management experience be available?
For club scenarios, often the 'lead' or 'coach' is volunteer. Someone might leave for a season, the head coach might change, or groups want to have several admins that can manage the group for convenience to club members, and backup for those admins.
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Does the 'group' subscription support co-managers? To put it another way, can you have two or more coaches that can manage the group seats?
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Will there be a way to manage the managers of the group?
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What resources aside from the Device Management and new Subscriptions talks are relevant to this topic?
Sorry the questions are 1-10 in the preview, but forums rendering is renumbering :)
All subscriptions sold through group purchases and volume purchasing are auto-renewing -- they will automatically renew at the price of the total number of seats.
Seats can be added or removed throughout the billing cycle. New seats will be charged at a prorated price for the remainder of the billing period, while removed seats will cancel and not renew.
All auto-renewing subscriptions for apps using StoreKit 2 will by default be enabled for group and volume purchasing. You can choose to opt any subscription out of the feature through App Store Connect. More details on availability of the controls will come later this summer.
The groups subscription feature uses the initial purchaser as the only administrator of the plan.
Apple Business and Apple School Manager support assigning multiple administrators that can manage the subscription.
More documentation will be released on these features throughout the beta period, stay tuned.
