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I'm currently implementing In-App Purchases in my Swift app. The product is a non-consumable one which activates a kind of Premium version for the user. Usually, with non-consumable purchases, you have to put a "Restore Purchases" button in your app (mandatory). However, my problem with this is: The app, and therefore the purchase, is user-bound. So every user of the app has to register an account with us. As soon as an user purchases the IAP, the user account gets flagged as Premium internally on our server. Once he logs out and logs into another account for example, the purchase gets "deactivated" as during the login process the app gets info from the server whether the user is Premium or not.
So basically, if I'd put a "Restore Purchase" button in my app it would either be kind of useless as the purchase gets activated anyways as soon as the user logs in, or the button would make it possible for someone to purchase the Premium version once and then activate it on an unlimited number of other accounts, too, simply by logging into them and "restoring purchases".
So, question is: Is this button mandatory in my case? I've seen other apps, especially subscription-based ones do this, too.
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To restore your purchases:Open the drawer from the upper left corner of the screen and select Support. Select Purchases and Paid App from the menu. Tap on the menu option, located in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. Tap on Recover Paid App.
Restoring purchases prevents you from losing all the things that have been purchased on the old devices. All you need to do is sign in with your old Apple ID or Google Account credentials and you would have restored your purchases. Pretty simple, correct?
Suggest Edits. Restoring purchases is a mechanism by which your user can restore their in-app purchases, reactivating any content that had previously been purchased from the same store account (Apple, Google, or Amazon).
You might be able to restore a non-consumable purchase, such as an upgrade to a pro version, an extra feature in a game, or a subscription: Open the app that you used to buy the item. Look for an option to restore. You might find it in the app's store, main menu, Settings menu, or Options menu.
Look for a button named “Restore Purchases” or something similar in the app. You may find this option in the app's main menu screen, in the app's settings screen, or in the app's in-app store. Apple instructs developers to include such a button in their apps.
You are required to have a restore mechanism inside the app, this is a convention users are used to seeing. In addition to this, it acts as a rescue mechanism should you experience an issue server side. You face a rejection if you do not include this.
If you don't implement restore button for your in-app purchase implementation, Apple will reject your app.
Their idea is if any iTunes user has paid for some content, he should be able to access the content on any device. How you are using the receipt and allowing the user that's up to you.
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