{"id":137,"date":"2026-10-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salzwerk.app\/?p=137"},"modified":"2026-10-20T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:00:00","slug":"in-app-kaeufe-app-store-freigabe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salzwerk.app\/en\/in-app-kaeufe-app-store-freigabe\/","title":{"rendered":"In-app purchases: better from the start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who publishes apps knows the waiting. You submit a version to the App Store, and then it sits with Apple for review. Sometimes it goes through in a few hours, sometimes it takes days. It\u2019s always been like that, and you get used to it.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s one thing where I noticed the difference can be really big: in-app purchases.<\/p>\n<h2>Added later: patience needed<\/h2>\n<p>When I add an in-app purchase to an existing app later on, things get slow. The new addition has to be reviewed separately, and for me exactly that approval took much longer than a normal update. The app itself was long finished, but the purchase was stuck in the queue.<\/p>\n<h2>Included from the start: much faster<\/h2>\n<p>It was completely different with an app that already included the in-app purchase when it was first submitted. Everything was reviewed in one go, and the approval came through much faster. No second wait, no back and forth.<\/p>\n<h2>What I\u2019m taking away<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>App Store review times vary. Planning in a little buffer always pays off.<\/li>\n<li>An in-app purchase added later can drag out the approval considerably.<\/li>\n<li>If an app will need an in-app purchase at some point, I now plan it in right from the start.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Luckily, that was the case with Tiny Garden Days: the whole garden for a one-time 3 USD was part of the app from the beginning. For my next projects I now ask myself this question right at the start. Will it need an in-app purchase at some point? Then it goes straight into the first version.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>App Store review times vary. I wait longest when I add an in-app purchase later. Here\u2019s what I learned.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","iawp_total_views":1,"_xspeed_no_cache":false,"_xspeed_expiry_hours":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hinter-den-kulissen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salzwerk.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salzwerk.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salzwerk.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salzwerk.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salzwerk.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.salzwerk.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/www.salzwerk.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salzwerk.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salzwerk.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salzwerk.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salzwerk.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}