I am completely new to In App Purchases and need to implement a subscription based IAP to grant user access to my app on login.
My app contains two types of users:
- Regular user
- Business user
In my business user table, I plan to have a column for subscriptionPaid which holds a boolean value and another column for the expDate.
At a high level, my plan is to update these two columns every time a user renews their subscription. Then, when a business user logs in, in addition to checking username and password, I need to check if the subscriptionPaid bool is true.
I had a quick look but I'm wondering if there are events which are triggered when renewals occur whereby I can call my own webservice to update the subscriptionPaid col and the expDate col in my business user table? Is this the best way of implementing such a process?
I know in Android, there is a method getPurchases which a programmer could potentially call on login to my app and then if there is an active one for my app, I will call my update script there to update the subscriptionPaid and expDate fields in my DB. I will be coding in swift, so would need some swift equivalent of the android getPurchases if this option is a better choice?
And finally, Apple can be very strict at times so I am wondering if anyone has any experience or opinion on whether or not what I have described thus far, would fit the following criteria:
Auto-renewable subscriptions. Episodic content. Like non-consumable products, auto-renewable subscriptions remain available to the user indefinitely on all of the user’s devices. Unlike non-consumable products, auto-renewable subscriptions have an expiration date. You deliver new content regularly, and users get access to content published during the time period their subscription is active. When an auto-renewable subscription is about to expire, the system automatically renews it on the user’s behalf.
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