Agent WranglersMOB-4Required
Sell digital goods through the store's billing
Unlock digital features and content in the app only through the store's in-app purchase. Physical goods and services used outside the app use your own checkout.
How to do it
Subscriptions, credits, levels and premium content are digital goods on both stores. License keys and QR codes that unlock features break Apple's rules. Rides, deliveries and shipped goods use your own checkout, as in choose a checkout that keeps you on SAQ A. Each store has exceptions by region and app type. Apple allows links to outside purchases in its United States storefront and lets reader apps sign in to earlier purchases. Google Play runs alternative billing and external offers programs in some countries. Read the current program terms before you link out, and record which one you use. Access follows give access from the subscription status.
How to check
Search the app for links and buttons to your own checkout. Each one sells a physical good or service, or sits behind a store program that is on for that country.
Sources
Related rules
- Choose a checkout that keeps you on SAQ A in Payments
- Give access from the subscription status in Payments
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