To allow users to purchase your courses directly from your iOS Mobile App, you need to correctly set up the in-app purchases associated with your app. You can add these purchases through your LearnWorlds school .
Follow the steps below to set up your app for in-app purchases.
First time enabling in-app purchases from this account
If it is your first time enabling in-app purchases from this Apple connect account, you will need to provide Apple with your bank account details as well as fill in the necessary tax forms.
1. Log in to your App Store Connect account and click on Agreements, Tax and Banking.
Note: If this is your first time visiting this page, you will be prompted to agree to the Terms by entering your legal business entity details. Also, you will need to accept Apple’s paid apps agreement.
2. Click on Set Up Tax, Banking and Contacts.
3. Click on Add Bank Account and fill in your Bank Account’s details.
4. Agree to the disclaimer and click on Add.
Note: After adding your Bank account details, Apple will need to cross-check and process this information. The processing will be completed within 24 hours.
5. Then, you will need to click on Complete Tax Forms.
The tax forms and the options that you must fill in, depend on your country of residence as well as specific details about your business.
Make sure to complete the US Tax Form as well. Even if you are not a US resident you will need to set it up simply by selecting "No".Once this is ready make sure to add your products as in-app purchases, find more information about this here.
As we would like to make sure that your iOS App will be accepted by the App Store after their manual review, we strongly suggest the following tips:
- Please add at least one paid course as an In-App Purchase. You can easily create a simple course that you can offer for additional revenue, and if you don't want to keep it after your apps go live, we will delete it for you.
- Do not include any custom sign-up fields in your sign-up form. App Store reviewers are very strict about additional information, so it will be great to keep the default values: username and email should be the only ones.
- Finally, make sure to display all prices. Even if the In-App Purchase is offered for free, you can display a "0" (zero) price.
Notes:
- The same process should be followed even if you offer free courses as well, by adding a zero price.
- Ιnstallments are not supported for in-app purchases.
- It is feasible to add courses after the iOS app is live. Both Paid and Free courses will need to be set up as In-App Purchases to be available from within the App.
- In order to offer free sections in a Paid course, the specific course will need to be added as an In-App purchase. Once the course is added, the users will be able to view the free sections before purchasing.
- Currently, we do not support App Store Promotions so please make sure to not enable this option. However, this is a feature that is coming soon with a future release.