Can I give my iPhone App customers referral credits for signing up new...

garage_greg

In an app that is free, but has in-app subscription purchases I would like to allow a user with a paid subscription to receive x number of free months on top of the paid subscription if he refers someone that purchases a subscription. For this to work it would have to be possible to track some sort of unique token through the Apple App Store in order to reliably assign credits. To "Refer a friend" the app would allow the user to send an email to...

Originally asked by Henning Glatter-Götz on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Our app just got rejected yesterday regarding this kind of functionality. We had an application which includes yearly subscriptions to access premium features. We also had a way for users to refer 5 friends to get a free access for life to our services. Apple rejected the app stating that this was against their rules for IAP. Specifically, they referred us to the section 11.1 of the guideline which states : Apps that unlock or enable additional features or functionality with mechanisms other than the App Store will be rejected

Full answer by droussel: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/17598251 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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