Can I use third party payment providers now?

Hello all,

Following the Epic vs Apple court ruling early in the year, I find myself a little confused with what we can now do with third-party payment providers.

Can I now offer subscriptions and payments for an app through my own custom built portal? The rules on it seem a little confusing surrounding the "you can email your customers to let them know you can pay externally" but I don't know how this would work for new customers.

To provide some context, if I have a subscription system in place where new app users register an account and then select a monthly subscription and pay for it using a provider such as Stripe, is this now permitted?

I'm based in the UK.

Many thanks.

I don't think so, but I'm not a legal expert.

As far as I understand, the deadline of Dec 9 has been postponed (appeal pending).

h t t p s : / / w w w.macrumors.com/2021/12/08/apple-wins-epic-appeal-no-app-store-changes-yet/

Can I use third party payment providers now?
 
 
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