Do you use subscription payments on mobile apps?
Does anyone use recurring subscription payments for their products via a mobile app?
I'm debating whether this is worth the hassle (especially with a web-app counterpart).
The biggest grapple seems to be paying Stripe 2% versus paying Apple 30%.
Yep, I do on iOS and Android. Both Google and Apple make it quite clear in their terms of service that you cannot use another payment provider to offer in-app subscriptions if you want to be on their app store (i.e. Stripe etc). A cut of 30% really sucks and the pain doesn't improve as you grow (in fact, it feels even worse).
Spotify and Epic are taking legal action against the current enforced fee structure (claiming this is monopolistic behaviour). You could try and sell subscriptions only via your web app, but you can't direct users directly from a native app to another payment method without being in violation of Apple/Google's rules.
I think that if you are big enough they can get your cut lowered to 20%
Very informative. Thank you!
I'd use only if I would have to. Which means that Google/Apple policy would force me to. For many cases unfortunately that's the only way.
If you can do it without In-Apps then Stripe is the best option right now.
I'm thinking of keeping the payments in the web-app for now and then only letting users access the iOS app via existing login.