Our app currently supports consumable in-app purchases. We recently tried adding some auto-renewable subscriptions, and those in-app purchases were returned with the following notes from our App Review:
Guideline 3.1.1 - Business - Payments - In-App Purchase
We have begun the review of your in-app purchases but aren't able to continue because your submitted in-app purchases indicate a change of business model for your app. Therefore, we need to verify the implementation of your submitted in-app purchases in the app to ensure your app, and its in-app purchases, are in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines.
Next Steps
Please upload a new binary for review and resubmit your in-app purchases with the binary so that we can continue the review.
This seems like a chicken-and-egg problem. We are waiting for Apple to approve our new auto-renewable subscriptions before we can begin including them in our app. Our app fetches the available product IDs from our server, so we never have any in-app purchase product IDs explicitly included in the app. The only way we would be able to allow Apple to test our implementation of our auto-renewable subscriptions in the app would be to have the server send those auto-renewable product IDs to the app, and so the server would also be sending those auto-renewable product IDs to users on existing versions of our app--but we can't use those product IDs until Apple approves them. What are we supposed to do? Am I misunderstanding what "resubmit your in-app purchases with the binary" means? How do others who also fetch their product IDs from the server resolve this?
Thanks in advance for your help!
