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In-App Purchase allows you to sell additional features and functionality from within your iOS, macOS, and tvOS apps. If you wish to offer in-app purchases in your applications, you must complete several steps before you can do it. This document provides step-by-step instructions for setting up and testing in-app purchase. It also answers common questions about in-app purchase. The 'Agreements, Tax, and Banking Information' section describes all the financial documents that must be completed. The 'Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles' and 'iTunes Connect' sections indicate the steps to be respectively done in the Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles section of Account and iTunes Connect. The 'What's Next' section shows how to test in-app purchase. The 'Update Your App for Ask to Buy' section describes how to support the Ask to Buy feature.

This document does not cover how to implement in-app purchase in your applications. Read the In-App Purchase Programming Guide for detailed information about implementing in-app purchase in your applications.

Note: In-App Purchase is available in iOS 3.0 and later, macOS 10.7 and later, and tvOS 9.0 and later.

Agreements, Tax, and Banking Information

You must complete the following steps before you can support in-app purchase in your applications:

1. Agree to the latest Developer Program License Agreement.

   Your team agent must agree to the latest Apple Developer Program License Agreement in Account before you are allowed to create in-app purchases.

2. Complete your contract, tax, and banking Information.

   You must have a Paid Applications contract in effect with Apple and have provided your tax and banking information in iTunes Connect as seen in Figure 1. Read Manage agreements, tax, and banking for more information.

Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles

The Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles section of Account is used to configure your App ID and Provisioning Profiles for in-app purchase. You must complete the following step in that section:

1. Register an explicit App ID for your application.

   Explicit App IDs are App IDs whose Bundle Identifier portion is a string without the wildcard ('*') character. Furthermore, they are automatically registered for in-app purchase and Game Center as shown in Figure 2. Using an explicit App ID ensures that your in-app purchases are only associated with your application. For example, use com.example.dinner rather than com.example.*.

   Your team agent or admin should navigate to the App IDs section of Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles to create App IDs for your applications. Read Registering App IDs to find out how to create App IDs.

iTunes Connect

To test in-app purchase, you need to create products to purchase and test accounts to make the purchases. iTunes Connect allows you to create and manage in-app purchases and test user accounts. You must complete the following steps in iTunes Connect:

1. Create test user accounts.

   Apple provides a testing environment, called the sandbox, which allows you to test your in-app purchases without incurring any financial charges. The sandbox environment uses special test user accounts rather than your regular iTunes Connect accounts to test in-app purchase. See Create a sandbox tester account for more information about creating test user accounts.

   Note: You can use the same test user accounts to test both your iOS, macOS, and tvOS applications. Each in-app purchase test user account is tied to one and only one email address. As such, you cannot reuse an existing email address with another test user account. You can create as many test user accounts as you want in iTunes Connect.

2. Create In-App Purchase products.

   Creating in-app purchase products is available via the In-App Purchases feature for your app in iTunes Connect. This feature is only visible to users with admin or technical role in iTunes Connect. See Creating In-App Purchase Products for more information.

   • Fill out the In-App Purchases form.

     The In-App Purchase form contains the Product ID field, which specifies a unique identifier for each of your in-app purchase products. See Technical Q&A QA1329, 'In-App Purchase Product Identifiers' for more information about product identifiers.

   • Leave the state of your product as Missing Metadata as shown in Figure 3.

     Note: Upload a a screenshot of your in-app purchase product once you are done testing it and ready to upload it for review.

   • Clear your product for sale.

     The In-App Purchases form contains a Cleared for Sale checkbox, which determines whether your in-app purchase product will be available for purchase from within your application. Check that box to make sure your product is available for sale.

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What's Next?

You have successfully set up in-app purchase for your application, let's implement and test it:

1. Launch or create your project in Xcode.

2. Enter the Bundle Identifier portion of your App ID in the Bundle Identifier field of your Target's Info pane in Xcode.

3. Enter a version number (CFBundleVersion) and a build number (CFBuildNumber) in the Version and Build fields of your Target's General Pane in Xcode, respectively as seen in Figure 4.

   Note: CFBundleVersion and CFBuildNumber are strings that can only contain unsigned integers and a period (.) characters. See CFBundleVersion for more information.

1. Set up your project to use automatic provisioning. Read Technical Q&A, QA1814, Setting up Xcode to automatically manage your provisioning profiles for more information.

2. Add the in-app purchase capability to your app as seen in Figure 5.

   Xcode will automatically create a development provisioning profile enabled for in-app purchase. Read Enabling In-App Purchase (iOS, tvOS, Mac) for more information.

   Important: You must be a team admin or agent in order to enable this capability. If you are a team member, ask your team admin or agent to create a team provisioning profile with in-app purchase as outlined in Create the Team Provisioning Profile. Refresh your provisioning profiles as described in Downloading Provisioning Profiles in Xcode once the team profile has been created.

1. Write code for your application.

   • Read the In-App Purchase Programming Guide and Receipt Validation Programming Guide for detailed information about implementing in-app purchase in your applications and receipt validation, respectively.

     Important: The Retrieving Product Information chapter of the In-App Purchase Programming Guide describes how to request information about your products from the App Store. Apple strongly recommends that you populate your user interface with products that were returned by the App Store. This ensures that your customers are only presented with products they can buy.

   • macOS applications should perform receipt validation immediately after launch. The apps should call exit with a status of 173 if validation fails as shown in Listing 1.

     
     

     Listing 1 Receipt validation

2. Test your application in the sandbox environment.

   • iOS and tvOS developers must complete the following steps:

     • Sign out of the Store in the Settings application on your testing device.

     • Set the run destination of your application to an iOS or tvOS Device in Xcode.

     • Build and run your application from Xcode.

   • macOS developers must complete the following steps:

     • Build your application in Xcode.

     • Run your application.

       You must launch your application from the Finder rather than from Xcode the first time in order to obtain a receipt. Click on your application in the Finder to launch it. macOS displays a 'Sign in to download from the App Store.' dialog. Enter your test user account and password as requested. The sandbox provides you with a new receipt upon successful authentication.

       Note: Launch your application from the Finder whenever you need a new receipt.

   Important: Use your test user account when prompted by StoreKit to confirm a purchase from within your application.

   StoreKit connects to the sandbox environment when you launch your application from Xcode, from your test device (iOS and tvOS), or from the Finder (macOS). It connects to a production environment for applications that were downloaded from the App Store. You must not use your test user account to sign into the production environment. This will result in your test user account becoming invalid. Invalid test accounts cannot be used to test in-app purchase again.

3. Submit your In-App Purchase products for review.

   Log in to iTunes Connect to submit your in-app purchase products for review by Apple, after you are done thoroughly testing them in the sandbox environment.

Update Your App for Ask to Buy

iOS 8 introduces Ask to Buy, which lets parents approve any purchases initiated by children, including apps or in-app purchases on the App Store. When a child requests to make a purchase, Ask to Buy will indicate that the app is awaiting the parent’s approval for this purchase by sending the Deferred state to the paymentQueue(_:updatedTransactions:) method on your transaction queue observer as shown in Listing 2. You should update your UI to reflect this deferred state, and expect paymentQueue(_:updatedTransactions:) to be called again with a new transaction state reflecting the parent’s decision or after the transaction times out. Avoid blocking your UI or gameplay while waiting for the transaction to be updated. Furthermore, be sure to follow the Add a transaction queue observer at application launch best practice.

Listing 2 Responding to transaction statuses

Note: The parent has 24 hours to approve or cancel their child's purchase after the Ask to Buy process has begun. If the parent fails to respond within the 24 hours, the Ask to Buy request is deleted from iTunes Store servers and your app's observer does not receive any notifications.

If the child makes multiple Ask to Buy requests, only the most recent request is presented to the parent. Each new request restarts the 24 hour clock for processing the purchase request.

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Code signing is a macOS security technology that you use to certify that an app was created by you. Once an app is signed, the system can detect any change to the app—whether the change is introduced accidentally or by malicious code.

You participate in code signing as a developer when you obtain a signing identity and apply your signature to apps that you ship. A certificate authority (often Apple) vouches for your signing identity.

Note: In most cases, you can rely on Xcode’s automatic code signing, which requires only that you specify a code signing identity in the build settings for your project. This document is for readers who must go beyond automatic code signing—perhaps to troubleshoot an unusual problem, or to incorporate the codesign(1) tool into a build system.

Benefits of Code Signing

After installing a new version of a code-signed app, a user is not bothered with alerts asking again for permission to access the keychain or similar resources. As long as the new version uses the same digital signature, macOS can treat the new app exactly as it treated the previous one.

Other macOS security features, such as App Sandbox and parental controls, also depend on code signing. Specifically, code signing allows the operating system to:

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• Ensure that a piece of code has not been altered since it was signed. The system can detect even the smallest change, whether it was intentional (by a malicious attacker, for example) or accidental (as when a file gets corrupted). When a code signature is intact, the system can be sure the code is as the signer intended.

• Identify code as coming from a specific source (a developer or signer). The code signature includes cryptographic information that unambiguously points to a particular author.

• Determine whether code is trustworthy for a specific purpose. Among other things, a developer can use a code signature to state that an updated version of an app should be considered by the system to be the same app as the previous version.

Limitations of Code Signing

Code signing is one component of a complete security solution, working in concert with other technologies and techniques. It does not address every possible security issue. For example, code signing does not:

• Guarantee that a piece of code is free of security vulnerabilities.

• Guarantee that an app will not load unsafe or altered code—such as untrusted plug-ins—during execution.

• Provide digital rights management (DRM) or copy protection technology. Code signing does not in any way hide or obscure the content of the signed code.

See Also

Read Security Overview to understand the place of code signing in the macOS security picture.

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For descriptions of the command-line tools for performing code signing, see the codesign and csreq man pages.

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