Multiple dynamic Auto-renewable subscriptions

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marcin1989 OP

Created Nov ’17

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Hello,

I have the following business model and I'm not sure is it possible to manage it using IAP.

The user can create and share with others premium content. The rest of users may subscribe "the content" to get an exclusive access in a specific period of time. Price list might be the same per each specific groups of products.

Example:

User A1 creates premium content P1 (price 0.99$ per month sub)
User A2 creates premium content P2 (price 0.99$ per month sub)

User A2 creates premium content P3 (price 0.99$ per month sub)

User A3 subscribe (auto-renewable) to P1, P2, P3 (A3 is charged three times every month)
User A4 subscribe (auto-renewable) to P2 and P3 (A3 is charged twice every month)

The problem I met so far:
1) When the premium content is adding dynamically, each new product has to be added to iTunes List. It's not scalable what if there are 10000 different subscriptions?
2) What if I'd just define the list of all possible auto-renewable price tires, for example, 10 different tires - it's still not possible to charge user more than once for a content using the same product_id.

Generally, It could be handled by custom solution using own server, however selling digital good requires that the In-App Payment need to be used.

Answer 1

PBK OP

Nov ’17

You can't do what you want to do with autorenewable subscriptions.

You can do what you want to do with non-renewing subscriptions or with a consumable.

The consumable would purchase a bag of tokens and you would 'charge' a certain number of tokens for each 'read'.

The non-renewing subscriptions would have multiple price points (i.e. multiple IAPs each with a different price) and you would need to purchase a 'tier 3' (for example) subscription and 'assign' it to premium content P26 (for example) to gain access to P26 content. If you wanted to also read P34 you would have to purchase a second 'tier 3' non-renewing subscription and assign it to P34. The app decided when you would need to renew you subscription to P26 stuff.