In a freemium model, is there a way to accommodate an a la carte purchase where you won't know the exact charge until the service is complete?

I ask this because the purchase will be available to free and subscribed members in the freemium model. But it's exact charge won't be known till the service is completed. Because the user has to accept the a la carte charge before Apple processes it (which requires knowing the charge amount), didn't know if this were possible.


If it's not, trying to ID manners to charge for this a la carte service that do work w/ IAP and freemium (for example, perhaps charging upfront for a pre-paid account that a member can draw on for this service, etc.)


Thanks!

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Not sure I understand the question - IAP involves tiers with preset pricing. Pretty sure it's possible to know that ahead of time. Devs are not free to casually ad-hoc their own app/IAP pricing.


As far as pre-paying for service, you'd perhaps want to use tokens, where the user can buy them in various increments, redeem them as they go, and you decide if they expire, etc, tracking their use/consumption via receipts.


Might want to move this the IAP forum - see FAQ#2 here:For Best Results - Read the Label