in-app-purchase

Purchase music from iTunes store without leaving app?

Hi all, Is anyone aware of a standard way of allowing a user to purchase music from the app store without leaving the app? For instance, if a band has an album for sale on iTunes and then releases an iPhone game featuring the band members, is there a "standard way" to allow the user to buy songs without leaving the app? From what I c...

Store Observer not being called always

Has anyone else here experienced problems with their Store Observer class not being called always when the user for instance cancels a request (or purchases something) We just had our update that brought in app purchases go live last night, and before that we had obviously tested everything tons of times against the Sandbox and everythi...

What exactly is apple looking for when they ask for an in-app purchase screenshot?

Do they want the purchased content in action or the store interface? what if i have a bunch of products that are very similar can I just use a single screenshot for all of them? Any help would be appreciated. Nick ...

iPhone in app purchase for charitable donations

Hello friends. I am developing an app for a registered charity in the United Kingdom and would like to touch base with you folks to see if any of you have experience with donations via in app purchases. The donations will likely consist of pre-defined amounts, such as: £1 £5 £10 £50 £100 My questions is: does Apple allow in app purc...

Transaction comes back after finishTransaction: has been called on it

I am using in-app purchase for an iPhone app. I have a class that acts as SKProductsRequestDelegate and SKPaymentTransactionObserver, and it's all working fine in the currently released version available on iTunes. However, after recently adding a new non-consumable product and testing it within the Sandbox environment, I'm now encounte...

Help with in-App Purchase timeout

Hello, I've designed my In-App purchase to work perfectly thanks to the well-written in-App Purchase Programming Guide. Unfortunately, I have run into one last snag. My app runs entirely offline except for this one purchase - so I'm hoping there's a simple solution without having to implement tons of net code. Basically, if I try to ...

In App Purchase for iPhone

Hi. I am developing a iPhone app. For that i have successfully add the In App Purchase functionality. It is working perfectly for a single item purchase. My problem is that How can i do this for multiple item purchase with single purchase request to App Store? Can anybody help me for this? ...

What should the transactionReceipt verification json look like?

I'm trying to verify a sandbox transactionReceipt at https://sandbox.itunes.apple.com/verifyReceipt using php and cURL. The original receipt when it arrives at my server looks like: { "signature" = "AksOP5dmXwg 9WjlcE7PwBEFZgcqBnIb0Uv2lSKebWJJpcOZQRL6ejYyv20MzPFDSgAj3GRGoJXWZpyJLAU8qZSQFYQeGljWKZd3XTJN4j1E7fqOQRBdIXSDRJr1phB/11xp smk6m...

null productIdentifier AND invalidproductIdentifier (In-App Purchase)

I have one product registered and cleared for sale in iTunes Connect. I request the CORRECT product id but the SKProductsResponse object returns null productIdentifier and null invalidproductIdentifier. What could be the problem? TOTAL PRODUCTS REGISTERED: 1 PRODUCT IDs MATCH: YES CLEARED FOR PURCHASE: YES SDK: iOS4.0 DEVICE OS: iOS4....

In App Purchasing API

I'm researching how to do In App purchasing using the iPhone SDK. Is there any open source code out there regarding this? Both client-side and server side? Apples docs are great but nothing is better than already functioning code to help the learning curve. I am not looking for http://urbanairship.com . I'm looking for server code I cou...

iPhone in app purchase to credits to real life prize?

I want to make an app that is free to play but you would be able to purchase "credits" through apples in app purchase. When you use these "credits" and if you successfully complete a task you will then be able to get a prize mailed to you. Is this allowed by apple? ...

In-App purchase server for iPhone App

Hi All, My company is looking to implement a large-scale In-App purchase model for an iPhone app. Our biggest issue is that we don't want to go with a service like Urban Airship because it doesn't integrate well with our business model and the nature of the application itself. So now we're looking to set up our own server to handle the...

Where are InAPP purchases stored?

This may be a silly question, but I haven't been able to find the answer. Where on the device should InApp purchases be stored? Are they downloaded to the bundle? ...

Time-sensitive in-app purchase on iPhone

With apple's in-app purchase approval system, is it not possible to have new in-app purchase content available every day? I've read in various places that the process typically takes 1-2 days .. sometimes longer. I know the typical answer to this would be to create a back log, but we're working with time-sensitive content and need it to ...

StoreKit SKProductsRequest Crash

I use the following code to request a list of products as per the In-App Purchase Programming Guide. It used to work fine in my iPhone application, however now it crashes every time the product list is requested. The delegate method (void)productsRequest:(SKProductsRequest *)request didReceiveResponse:(SKProductsResponse *)response is ne...

Rails: How to send a json object to a other server?

Hi everybody, I'm trying to implement the in App purchase mechanism in my iPhone app. To do so I need to make a json object out of the receipt string on my rails server, and send it to a iTunes server. How can I create a json object out of a string? to_json didn't work for me... How can I send that json object to the specified Server ...

send json object with httparty

Hi there, I'm trying to implement the in App purchase from within my iPhone app. To verify the receipt I need to send a json object to the iTunes server. Im trying to do this with the httparty plugin: require 'httparty' class ItunesVerification include HTTParty base_uri 'https://sandbox.itunes.apple.com' default_params :output =...

Purchase physical product from iPhone app without Apple in app purchase

Can an iPhone app allow a user to purchase a physical product (say a pen or a mouse) from inside an app, without using Apple in app purchase? Is it allowed by Apple? If yes, do you know any API that supports this? Thanks AJ ...

After upgrade in app purchase product id is invalid

Hello, I'm testing my in app purchase code for an update to my app. The in app purchase works great when I do an install from xcode to my phone. The issue arises when I have the currently released version installed on my phone then I install the dev version over the top of the release version. When I install in this way my product ID...

Sort In App Purchases

I'm working on a store front for my in app purchases. I have the items being loaded into an NSMutableArray within -(void)productsRequest:(SKProductsRequest *)request didReceiveResponse:(SKProductsResponse *)response however all my products start with numbers. I'd like to sort these in ascending order but whenever I use sortUsingSelecto...