App Store price change on October 5, 2022

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MickaelLEBRET OP

Created Sep ’22

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Hi,

Some devs received today this information from Apple : https://9to5mac.com/2022/09/19/app-store-raise-prices-multiple-countries-next-month/

From this arises a question: how to restore the current prices? For example, my current price is 25€, and I don't want it to go to 27€. My current price on the App Store Connect is still 25€. If I "change" the price to €25 today, will this apply beyond October 5? If not, what should I do?

And finally another important question: will this be totally transparent for the user? I don't want him to receive a destabilizing price change information email or anything similar, nor do I want it to interfere/cancel automatic renewals.

Thanks a lot for your futures responses !

Best regards

Answered by endecotp in 729018022

There is no way to synchronise your tier change with the price changes, so inevitably there will be a period of time when either the price is too low or too high. You need to decide whether too high or too low is preferable.

Note that in the past Apple have not sent out emails when the price change actually happens, so you need to watch carefully.

I have previously submitted a feature request asking for a way to synchronise a tier change with an announced price change, with no feedback from Apple. You might like to do that too.

In general, it’s likely that the new prices won’t have the same price available as you were using before. You might get lucky though.

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Giacomo Balli OP

Sep ’22

Effective October 2022, you can still set price tier 21 which is 24.99EUR.

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endecotp OP

Sep ’22

Accepted Answer

There is no way to synchronise your tier change with the price changes, so inevitably there will be a period of time when either the price is too low or too high. You need to decide whether too high or too low is preferable.

Note that in the past Apple have not sent out emails when the price change actually happens, so you need to watch carefully.

I have previously submitted a feature request asking for a way to synchronise a tier change with an announced price change, with no feedback from Apple. You might like to do that too.

In general, it’s likely that the new prices won’t have the same price available as you were using before. You might get lucky though.

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App Store Commerce Engineer OP

Apple

Sep ’22

Appreciate the feedback, keep it coming. Feel free to file more at feedbackassistant.apple.com and replay with your FB# here to track.

It’s important to highlight that these do not apply to auto-renewing subscriptions. https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=e1b1hcmv

For the applicable in-app purchases, if you’d like to retain your current price, you could apply your price change to go into effect on October 5th to minimize price changes.

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Answer 4

endecotp OP

Sep ’22

if you’d like to retain your current price, you could apply your price change to go into effect on October 5th to minimize price changes.

The email says "As early as October 5...", which I interpret as "at some date on or after October 5". Are you saying that you believe it means exactly October 5?

The similar announcement in August 2021 was more vague, it just said "in the next few days".

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endecotp OP

Sep ’22

Dear App Store Commerce Engineer ,

People who need to bulk-update their IAP prices because of this change may struggle because of this: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/714696 Do you have any feedback about that?

There is also the question of who at Apple is able to provide assistance with the API: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/711608

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App Store Commerce Engineer OP

Apple

Sep ’22

Store repricing is rolled out over a few days to all products to avoid any disruption to normal production activities. Applying a price change on 10/5 PT should allow your change to to be applied with the new updates.

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