in app purchases issue - worth appealing?

we built an app to support a private membership site (you can't join unless you are manually approved under strict guidelines) with chat and document sharing. all sign up and payment goes through the website not the app and this was agreed with the client beforehand. So someone for example could download the app but not login or use it unless they are a member. we've since had a review that this is classified as an in app purchase and requires a payment system. we really need to avoid this - is it worth appealing?

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Appealing probably won't help. I think you promised too much to your client.

Your only hope is to modify the app so that it operates as a reader app and only reads the "chat and document sharing" information that is associated with the payment. Your other path is to increase the fee by 40% so that 70% of (140%) is the previous fee.


3.1.3(a) “Reader” Apps: Apps may allow a user to access previously purchased content or content subscriptions (specifically: magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, video, access to professional databases, VoIP, cloud storage, and approved services such as classroom management apps), provided that you agree not to directly or indirectly target iOS users to use a purchasing method other than in-app purchase, and your general communications about other purchasing methods are not designed to discourage use of in-app purchase.