Accelerated Subscriptions Introduction

It is important to test your app before publishing it live. With Live App Testing (LAT), you can assign testers to test the app in a beta environment. Find steps for how to do this in Get Started with Live App Testing.

In-App Purchases (IAP) are services that the customer can purchase. This way, the app can be made available for free, yet still makes a profit. Currently, there are three types of IAPs:

Subscriptions
Entitlements
Consumables

In the past, to test a subscription for one of the supported periods (such as weekly, monthly, or annually), you would have to wait for the full subscription plan to expire to see if it would renew correctly.

With accelerated subscriptions, this has changed. Now in a matter of minutes, you can test even an annual subscription.

Accelerated timelines for subscriptions. For details, see the Accelerated Subscriptions Time Table. — Accelerated subscriptions removes the bottleneck in development

Note: You cannot add accelerated subscriptions and keep other old subscriptions testing-enabled. For that reason, if you enable accelerated subscriptions, all old subscription testing is canceled.

Note: Purchase receipts generated from accelerated subscription IAP orders can be verified using Receipt Verification Service.

For details on the accelerated timelines, see Accelerated Subscriptions Time Table.

Last updated: Jun 18, 2024