when I have not verified payment method and we choose UPI then pop up shows Purchase In Progress and it shows notification for UPI app payment for apps like Gpay, Paytm. But when we approve or decline this payment StoreKit methods not called for success or failure and we have to kill app to refetch the status and stop the loader.
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After the user initiates the subscription payment, the SDK returns an error type: user cancels. When the user initiates the payment again, Apple will deduct the payment twice and successfully deduct the previously cancelled SKU. This is a recent occurrence with a large amount of data, and the app has not been upgraded in any way. We need to seek help. Thank you
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
StoreKit
What is the expected behavior for App Receipts and ASSN v2 notifications when a subscription is set to "Remove from Sale"?
I tried to test this in Sandbox, but the "Remove from Sale" setting in App Store Connect doesn't seem to affect the Sandbox environment.
For existing subscribers, what happens in the receipt? Does auto_renew_status change to 0 and is expiration_intent populated immediately?
Also, which notificationType is sent via ASSN v2?
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
StoreKit
Tags:
Subscriptions
In-App Purchase
App Store Server Notifications
App Store Receipts
Hi - Using storekit2 on ios26.2 and using presentOfferCodeRedeemSheet to allow users to leverage Offer Codes.
The codes work (sandbox and production), however on the confirmation view that shows Redeem Special Offer, while my App Icon is properly displayed up top, the associated product subscription image is missing and I see a grey App Store image/icon instead.
I do successfully see the associated subscription and pricing to the right. My subscription product images are already reviewed/approved and have been live for a number of weeks. I see this in Sandbox and Production (with a live customer sending me the phone screenshot).
PS, my product icons/logos all show up successfully during normal checkout in sandbox/production, this only occurs on Offer Code Redemption views.
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
StoreKit
I noticed a very weird behavior for refunds. When a user refunds an up-front paid app, they still have access to the app. How can I detect such a case and block access to the app?
In general, I think it should be handled by Apple, but for some reason, they don't do it.
I cannot test IAP using sandbox account that I logged on from settings, it keeps show my regular Apple ID when I try to test IAP from TestFlight
This issue frustrate me and bunch of my colleagues, we cannot manage our subscription when sandbox account is default choosing Apple ID
I've seen people complaining about this issue a lot
Any help on resolving this issue would be really appreaciated
Dear community,
Context
My company operates in the European Union, where not so long ago there appeared the possibility to accept an ["Alternative Terms Addendum for Apps in the EU"] (https://developer.apple.com/contact/request/download/alternate_eu_terms_addendum.pdf), which, among others, gives us the possibility to use an alternative payment provider, other than Apple's In App Purchase PSP system (ref: Apple docs). My company did accept it and was granted the StoreKit External Purchase Entitlement (com.apple.developer.storekit.external-purchase) entitlement, with which we integrated a different PSP, so now we want to incorporate the reporting to Apple's External Purchase Server API. We are currently integrating with the External Purchase Server API and have encountered a couple of issues I would appreciate clarification on:
Question 1
Is there a way to retrieve an overview or summary of the current subscription states on Apple’s servers as a result of the submitted reports to External Purchase Server API? Specifically, I would like to verify the expected outcomes before the monthly invoice is issued by Apple and to understand the subscription states for the test users I used during this process and for future reference as well.
Question 2
In one scenario, I initiated a one-year subscription, and in the middle of its period, I submitted a RENEWAL for one month with a higher price.
I expected the request to fail due to overlapping periods and/or pricing conflicts, but both submissions were accepted without error.
Do you have an idea about:
What happens at the end of the renewed month?
Will the subscription continue with the renewed (higher) amount, revert to the original (lower) annual rate, or be canceled?
Where can I view the final state and billing plan for that subscription?
Thank you for your assistance, we are looking forward for any kind of help or information regarding this topic.
Hi,
I’ve been struggling for a while with an issue around an auto-renewable subscription using StoreKit 2 and I’d like to double-check here whether I’m missing something, or if anyone has seen similar behavior.
Context
• iOS / iPadOS app, first release
• 1 auto-renewable subscription (only product in the app)
• Using StoreKit 2 only (Product, Transaction, AppStore)
• Review device according to the message: iPad Air 11” (M3), iPadOS 26.2
• I keep failing on Guideline 2.1 – App Completeness
• The App Review message is always the same:
“The In-App Purchase products in the app exhibited one or more bugs which create a poor user experience. Specifically, no action occurred when we tapped on the Continue to Purchase button.”
In App Store Connect, the subscription is properly configured, is in the state Ready for Review, and is correctly associated with this app version.
What I see (locally + TestFlight)
In TestFlight and local builds, the behavior looks correct:
• Product.products(for: […]) returns the product, the price and currency are displayed correctly on the paywall / subscription card.
• The user taps “Get PRO” → my overlay is shown (“Preparing purchase…” → then a screen with confirmation and price).
• After tapping the “Continue to Purchase” button in that overlay, I call await product.purchase().
• On my devices, the system StoreKit purchase sheet always appears.
• In the sandbox logs I can see:
• a successful result from purchase()
• a verified transaction via VerificationResult
• the “user has PRO” flag being set correctly after refreshing entitlements (Transaction.currentEntitlements + fallback Transaction.latest(for:)).
I’ve tested this on multiple real devices and with several sandbox Apple IDs – I cannot reproduce the “nothing happens after tapping” problem.
What App Review reports
App Review repeatedly claims that “no action occurred when we tapped on the Continue to Purchase button.”
From their screenshots and description, the flow is:
1. They open Settings → subscription card.
2. They see the loaded price, so the product has clearly been fetched successfully from the App Store.
3. They tap my “Get SalonFlow PRO” button.
4. My overlay appears with the subscription name and price.
5. They tap “Continue to Purchase” (in my UI this is “Pokračovat k nákupu”).
6. According to them, nothing happens – no system StoreKit confirmation, no error message, no visible action.
Important: this overlay did not appear as an extra complication, but as a reaction to their earlier feedback:
• Originally, I had a simple flow: button in the card → directly calling purchase().
• App Review at that time said that after tapping the button “nothing happens”.
• I added the overlay specifically to make it obvious that the button does react and that the app is preparing the system purchase: I show the product, the price, and a text explaining that a system App Store confirmation will appear next.
• Only from that overlay do I call purchase().
So: in their environment they obviously do reach the overlay (meaning the button definitely does “something”), but the actual StoreKit purchase sheet never shows up.
Additional changes and “safety belts”
From the App Review video it was clear they were tapping the purchase button roughly 3 seconds after launching the app. So I tightened the flow even more:
• The “Get SalonFlow PRO” button is now:
• disabled until the product has been loaded from the App Store,
• visually dimmed, with a spinner and a short text like “Loading subscription information, please wait…”.
• The button only becomes active once the product is actually loaded and ready.
• After that, the user goes through a two-step process:
1. tap “Get SalonFlow PRO” → overlay with details,
2. tap “Continue to Purchase” → this is where I call purchase().
On my devices, after that step the system purchase confirmation always appears. But App Review still says that after tapping “Continue to Purchase” nothing happens.
What I’d like to ask
1. Has anyone seen a situation where Product.purchase() with StoreKit 2 works fine in TestFlight and sandbox testing, but in the App Review environment the system purchase sheet never appears (no error, just “nothing”)?
2. Are there any known edge cases on iPad (iPadOS 26.2, iPad Air M3) where the StoreKit purchase sheet might fail to show even if:
• AppStore.canMakePayments == true,
• the product is valid and loaded,
• and no error is thrown from purchase()?
3. Could App Review consider my two-step flow (button → overlay → confirm button calling purchase()) problematic in itself, even though the overlay is there precisely because of their initial complaint that “nothing happens” after tapping the button?
4. Is there anything concrete you’d recommend:
• adding to the logs,
• changing in the timing/order of the purchase() call,
• or adjusting in the UI,
to make it absolutely clear what is happening in their environment if the system sheet never appears?
From my point of view, the implementation follows the StoreKit 2 documentation, everything works correctly in real tests and TestFlight, but the App Review environment behaves differently and I keep getting stuck on Guideline 2.1.
I’d really appreciate any experience, tips (“we had exactly this and fixed it by X”), or even a recommendation to radically simplify the flow back to a minimal “button → directly purchase()” without any intermediate overlay.
Thanks a lot for any help – this review loop has been going on for weeks and I’d really like to finally resolve it.
Can anyone advise on this? We distributed promotional trial codes for our app Ask Dolly. These 1-month free trials are set to renew and charge users in March 2026.
A segment of users redeemed the promo codes but never created accounts or opened the app. We don't have their contact information to notify them. Our CEO has directed us to prevent these inactive subscriptions from renewing to avoid charging users who never engaged with the service.
We've downloaded the Subscription and Offer Code Redemption reports from App Store Connect, but cannot map Apple's Subscriber IDs to our user database (we only store Transaction IDs). This prevents us from identifying which specific subscriptions to cancel.
What We Need: Assistance preventing renewals for promotional subscriptions where users have had zero app sessions/opens as of the end of February.
These trials will start to renew on March 3, 2026. We need to resolve this before then to avoid charging inactive users.
Can you help us either:
Cancel subscriptions associated with promo codes that show zero app engagement, or
Provide guidance on how to programmatically identify and cancel these subscriptions?
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
StoreKit
Hello Apple Support Team,
We're a developer team that has created an app with subscription-based features, and we've been using App Store Server Notifications to receive updates about user subscription status changes. I'm reaching out to inquire about potential modifications to the App Store Server Notifications approach that might have improved notification delivery times for my app.
So on our appstore app, when a user purchases a subscription, the apple server notifications reach our server and send us the complete detail of that user’s purchase for eg he upgraded or downgraded etc. And then based on the data we receive from app store server notifications, we save it in our database, along with updating the users subscription table in the database. Previously, we experienced delays in receiving the real time notifications from apple on our server, sometimes taking a few minutes, while other times they would arrive immediately. And because of this issue, the users faced delay in seeing their subscription updates, as our db was updated only after the app store server notification reached our server. However, recently, we've noticed a significant improvement, and notifications are now being delivered still in real-time, but without any noticeable delays.
I'm wondering if Apple has made any changes to the App Store Server Notifications system that might have resolved the delay issue. Could you please confirm if any modifications were made in 2025, specifically from January onwards, that might have improved notification delivery times?
Additionally, I'd like to know if these changes apply to both sandbox testing and production environments. If possible, could you please provide more information about the changes or direct me to a resource that might explain the updates?
I'd appreciate your assistance in confirming this information, and I'm looking forward to hearing back from you.
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
StoreKit
Tags:
App Store Connect
App Store Server Notifications
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Transactions monitoring. If I only have subscriptions, do I really need to "bother" with any sort of monitorTransactions() or just rely on subscription status (subscribed, revoked, cancelled ...) ?
This is in line with Apple SKDemo and recommendation:
// Only handle consumables and non consumables here. Check the subscription status each time
// before unlocking a premium subscription feature.
switch transaction.productType {
ref: [https://developer.apple.com/documentation/storekit/implementing-a-store-in-your-app-using-the-storekit-api)
The "Only handle consumables and non consumables here" recommendation by Apple in ref to the process transaction code above is nuanced and confusing if we know what was with other external experts recommendation saying when using only SK2 Views :
"This is where most developers trip up in trying to get an experience that App Review is happy" ...
continuing :
"Be careful: that Purchase View code alone isn’t enough, because one of the possible completion status is .pending: the purchase is in the process of happening but hasn’t completed yet, so you still need to watch the transaction queue manually to be absolutely sure of handling the process completely."
Does this holds true for the new SubscriptionStoreView ?
We are not sure with quite obscure Apple documentation what SubscriptionStoreView handles, other than purchase (and now subscribe) function, and we do not know what diverse type of error handling messages it can return. Moreover, Apple documents: "Only handle consumables and non consumables here" ?
@Apple can you please share more insights on Purchase button on SubscriptionStoreView e.g
A) does it close ( finish). the purchase transaction ?
B) What error results can it return ?
C) What .onInAppPurchaseCompletion can handle as result ?
I am trying use SKOverlay to promote an app, and I currently have the campaignToken field populated. However, even when installs happen from the SKOverlay, nothing shows up under that campaign token in App Store Connect. Is there something that I'm missing? I don't have the providerToken set.
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
StoreKit
We began storing our users' appTransactionID as a quick lookup identifier for purchase history as it is back-dated and consistent between installs and can be signed by Apple.
We've read through both the Storekit documentation and the app transfer documentation, but wanted to verify that a users appTransactionID remains consistent after an app has been transferred from one Apple developer account to another (assuming they have the proper shared secret info)? Basically, would the new developer team be seeing the same appTransactionID our current team sees for an existing user post-transfer?
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
StoreKit
Hi there,
We have an app targeted for children and we want to use the SkAdNetwork to track installs for campaigns.
We don't want to track further in-app events (purchase etc.), just the install event.
We added the SDK to our Unity app, listed the network identifiers in the plist file, configured the external campaign according to their instructions, but struggle to see any events for several weeks now.
We see the following logs in the app:
Registering install attribution pingback.
Failed to migrate Install Attribution database schema from 17001 => 17400.
SkAdNetwork: No pingbacks found while attempting to register/update.
Error setting install attribution pingback registered for app: 1509727806, error: Error Domain=ASDErrorDomain code=1208
How can we debug this further? What does the error mean?
Thank you very much!
(I hope I posted in the correct forum topic. Apologies if not)
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
StoreKit
Hi everyone.
I'm trying to use https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreserverapi/get-transaction-info to retrieve order information. How can I get the refund status of an order through this API? Also, Apple's webhook notification for refunds includes fields like revocationReason and revocationType. Can these be retrieved through the API? I've noticed that some refund orders have these fields when retrieved using get-transaction-info api, but others don't. I don't know the reason for these differences. Could you please explain?
Thank you very much.
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
StoreKit
Tags:
App Store Server Notifications
App Store Server API
I have an iOS and iPadOS app that also runs on macOS Catalyst. The user is able to view their subscription using the SubscriptionStoreView with two SubscriptionOptionGroups.
The documentation does not mention these are supported on macOS Catalyst and the app crashes when attempting to show the SubscriptionStoreView on macOS Catalyst.
If not supported, how can the user manage their subscription on macOS?
There is a project that has been running online for years. A few months ago, a player reported that after making their first successful IAP at a specific purchase point, any subsequent attempts to purchase the same item do not trigger the payment window. Instead, they get the error:"This in-app purchase has already been bought".After contacting Apple Support once, the player was able to make a payment, but the issue reappeared on the next attempt. So far, this is the only user reporting the problem, other people can purchase normally.
Question1:
Here’s what I’ve tried:
I reviewed the code and ensured that TransactionObserveris correctly called.
I’ve also added **[[SKPaymentQueue defaultQueue] finishTransaction:transaction]**in all possible places, but the issue persists.
According to the logs, after the user’s first purchase, every subsequent IAP attempt returns the same receipt from the initial successful transaction, even though I’m certain finishTransactionis being called. It seems like this method isn’t having the intended effect.
Question2:
I asked the player to manually trigger the Restore Purchases button by calling [[SKPaymentQueue defaultQueue] restoreCompletedTransactions].
the restoreCompletedTransactionsFailedWithErrorcallback returned the following error:
Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1200 "An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made."
The player has already checked their device time and tried switching between Wi-Fi and 4G, but the error remains. Is this SSL error related to the "already bought" error? Note that this SSL issue occurred during a separate restore process, not during a purchase attempt.
Question: 3:
I noticed that I’m not calling finishTransaction inside the restoreCompletedTransactionsFailedWithErrorcallback. Should I add it there?
Purchase Logs:
The player clicked "Restore Purchases" and then attempted another purchase. The purchase flow appears normal, but the IAP returns an old, already-used receipt.
[2025-12-10 17:41:38:995] Restore transaction failed: Error > Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1200 "An SSL error has occurred and a > secure connection to the server cannot be made."
[2025-12-10 17:41:40:010] Restore transaction failed: Error > Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1200 "An SSL error has occurred and a > secure connection to the server cannot be made."
[2025-12-10 17:41:42:011] buy method called... productID: > huoxiancj_648 orderID: 22674511
[2025-12-10 17:41:42:107] ----Log Observers ID----
[2025-12-10 17:41:42:108] ObserverID: 0x109968890
[2025-12-10 17:41:42:108] Processing unfinished transactions...
[2025-12-10 17:41:42:108] Finished processing unfinished > transactions.
[2025-12-10 17:41:42:108] Allowing in-app purchase...
[2025-12-10 17:41:42:215] Requesting product info...
[2025-12-10 17:41:42:989] productsRequest didReceiveResponse:
[2025-12-10 17:41:43:066] Invalid Product ID: (
[2025-12-10 17:41:43:066] Purchase quantity: 1
[2025-12-10 17:41:43:066] Product info:
[2025-12-10 17:41:43:067] Price: 648
[2025-12-10 17:41:43:067] Product ID: huoxiancj_648
[2025-12-10 17:41:43:067] Validating product info...
[2025-12-10 17:41:43:067] Sending payment request...
[2025-12-10 17:41:43:067] requestDidFinish
[2025-12-10 17:41:43:132] paymentQueue updatedTransactions.
[2025-12-10 17:41:43:133] updatedTransactions case > SKPaymentTransactionStatePurchasing
[2025-12-10 17:41:43:208] [payment.applicationUsername] > userid=50306496 appid=1045 instid=12844 reserve=xxxx > productID=22674511
[2025-12-10 17:43:16:008] paymentQueue updatedTransactions.
[2025-12-10 17:43:16:008] updatedTransactions case > SKPaymentTransactionStatePurchased
[2025-12-10 17:43:16:008] productIdentifier= huoxiancj_648
[2025-12-10 17:43:16:113] Sending receipt to server for validation.
[2025-12-10 17:43:16:113] Transaction completed.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.
I'm trying to understand the IAP development process. I created my first Product on App Store Connect and am trying to build my app to use it. However it keeps failing with "Invalid product ID.". From what I've read, this is because the product has not yet gone through review. But what I don't understand is, of course it hasn't gone through review yet, because trying to use it in any capacity fails, even though I'm using a real physical device and using a Sandbox User. Is this the correct workflow? It seems very backwards that I have to submit the product for review, even before I know how it's going to be used. I'm still building the screen for the product page, and haven't even started touching any backend APIs, yet it's asking for screenshots. Am I misunderstanding something here?
I am trying to launch a PWA as an application on App Store, and got rejected cause of In-App Purchases. Application is about content generation and selling subscriptions for premium content. So thats why needed to implement In-App Purchases.
I have created wrapper via PWABuilder. And it is looking great so far, now my question is about How can I implement In-App Purchases in the bundle which is already created.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
More clarification:-
I have that product running on Web right now, we have integrated Stripe for payment handling for subscriptions. If there is nothing we can do for In-App Purchases then we have to make purchases on website and then user will be able to experience the changes. We tried that, but then we got rejected for showing locked premium content on user's feed. Also can't show any CTA or Subscribe text or button.
Hi all,
I’m testing Subscription in my Flutter app on a real iOS device (iPhone 16 Pro with iOS 18) via TestFlight. I’ve set everything up as required, but I still get this error:
flutter: Found products: []
If everything works perfectly when StoreKit configuration is used in Xcode, but not via TestFlight.
All my Subscriptions are approved with the same ID.