Today we're excited to launch the beta of RevenueCat Billing: web purchases designed to work seamlessly with your mobile app. Full details: revenuecat.com... Documentation: www.revenuecat....
For a mobile app, isn't that forbidden by the app stores? I mean to handle subscriptions outside the app stores, avoiding to pay their 15-30% fee? How would an app that uses an web-based subscription/payment system be allowed to be in the app stores? Wasn't there a huge fight between fortnite and the app stores specifically because of that?
Yup, exactly. I don't think it's gonna work for RevenueCat. Not because they are bad, but because not for life Apple or Google will allow some company to bypass paying their fees.
You’re allowed to do this you just can’t redirect a user on your mobile app to go to the web to make a purchase. You can however market a user with a paid ad to a web version of the paywall to subscribe then you can ask them to download the app. The app then checks if they’re subscribed
@@PepperAddict sorry, didn't totally get it. Are you implying Revenue Cat found a loophole in the Apple's fee system? If its not a loophole, then I dont get the point if this new feature
This isn't doing a web based subscription your application. It's all on your website, and then if you're signed in as the same user on your mobile device it will grant you all of the features there automatically. This is totally allowed by the App Store, you just aren't allowed to process payments inside of your app or link people out to your website from your app to make payments there (except for some exceptions now due to regulations).
We were just wrapping up writing our own Firebase RevenueCat + Stripe integration :) ... curious if RC supports non-subscription products on web as well. Happy to chat/share more.
At the moment we use stripe on our web side and just rev cat for entitlement managment on the web. We have rev cat on our native apps. Im not 100% clear what the benefit would be of moving from Stripe to Rev cat billing save perhaps easing (from a dev perspective) the post purchase flow. We already provide a management link provided by stripe.
Probably the biggest one initially is that it's included in your RevenueCat plan so if you're already tracking the revenue in RevenueCat, it will save you some money. We're also building this with mobile developers in mind so the features we plan on building out for it will be optimized for businesses who are mobile-first but want the flexibility of web based subscriptions as well.
