Payment companies team up to help developers ditch App Store billing

Two transactional companies person teamed up to assistance app developers monetize their services extracurricular of Apple’s App Store. The new integration, launched by in-app outgo strategy supplier Paddle and the RevenueCat subscription platform, makes it easier for developers to unify subscriptions crossed web and mobile alternatively of gathering their ain solutions from scratch.

This motorboat follows the Epic v. Apple ruling successful April that blocks Apple from collecting fees connected purchases made extracurricular of its App Store strategy and restricting in-app links to outer payments successful the US. That means app developers are little restricted by Apple’s committee charges and outgo system, but would beryllium faced with independently managing complexities similar tax, compliance, and cross-platform enactment for subscriptions.

The RevenueCat and Paddle integration is designed to marque these issues easier for developers to navigate. It’s supported crossed iOS, Android, and web, allowing consumers to subscribe connected 1 level and automatically unlock entree crossed others. RevenueCat provides an analytics dashboard for managing show insights, portion Paddle handles payments, tax, and compliance connected the web.

“There’s a immense accidental for subscription apps to turn gross by expanding to the web — but that displacement brings caller method and operational challenges,” Paddle CEO Jimmy Fitzgerald said successful the announcement. “By partnering with RevenueCat, we’re making it easier for developers to negociate subscriptions crossed platforms, portion giving them much power implicit however and wherever they monetize.”