Hi,
We're looking at creating an app that allows tutors to purchase a subscription, via the app, that gives their students access to various educational content.
We want the app to be cross platform. Which means, in theory, a tutor could pay for their subscription on any platform and students could access the content they were creating / sharing on a different platform.
Concern is that would contravene Apple's guidelines on payment.
From the Apple guidelines:
"3.1.3(c) Enterprise Services: If your app is only sold directly by you to organizations or groups for their employees or students (for example professional databases and classroom management tools), you may use purchase methods in addition to in-app purchase to collect those payments. Consumer, single user, or family sales must use in-app purchase."
Tutors presumably don't count as "organisations" so I'm struggling to think how we can achieve what we want, whilst ensuring we don't step outside Apple's guidelines. There is no way any tutor can guarantee all their students are Apple users...
Does anyone have any experience with building a system that worked in this kind of way and if so, any advice on how you approached it would be really helpful.
Thanks.
We're looking at creating an app that allows tutors to purchase a subscription, via the app, that gives their students access to various educational content.
The app would be free to download.
Tutors could set up a tutor account.
An in-app auto-renewing subscription would allow the tutor to pay for a certain number of student logins, which they could set up themselves within the app and that would be stored in our own database.
A student with an account could sign in to the app without having to pay anything. If the tutor cancelled their subscription via the App Store, our database would be updated and the students would no longer be able to login.
We want the app to be cross platform. Which means, in theory, a tutor could pay for their subscription on any platform and students could access the content they were creating / sharing on a different platform.
Concern is that would contravene Apple's guidelines on payment.
From the Apple guidelines:
"3.1.3(c) Enterprise Services: If your app is only sold directly by you to organizations or groups for their employees or students (for example professional databases and classroom management tools), you may use purchase methods in addition to in-app purchase to collect those payments. Consumer, single user, or family sales must use in-app purchase."
Tutors presumably don't count as "organisations" so I'm struggling to think how we can achieve what we want, whilst ensuring we don't step outside Apple's guidelines. There is no way any tutor can guarantee all their students are Apple users...
Does anyone have any experience with building a system that worked in this kind of way and if so, any advice on how you approached it would be really helpful.
Thanks.