react-native-iap VS purchases-ios

I did not find any examples on this, but Apple does not seem to have a javascript SDK for In app purchases(like google does) so this needs to be done natively, I guess you are more familiar with javascript than swift so you can start with a basic React Native project, add a webview component and use it to display your PWA, then use the react-native-iap package to handle apple in app payments and trigger this flow from your PWA like this

The first thing I did was clone the Github repository for react-native-iap as it contained all the working examples for Amazon Appstore, Google Play, and Apple Appstore.

What is your purpose with the action of opening the payment window? Do you just want to show the cards, or is the user buying a product, or is it for something in the app? The react-native-payment has not seen any updates the past 2 years… I would skip this package for usage. You could use something like https://github.com/stripe/stripe-react-native if you like to use stripe as a payment provider. Or for in app purchases I use https://github.com/dooboolab/react-native-iap So it depends on want you want to accomplish and what kind of payment provider you want to use. Good luck 💪🏽

I've been working on this side project using react-native & firebase and I wanted to add In-App payments to it so users can buy "coins" inside the app, seems like the best way to do so is to use react-native-iap. I read through the documentation and it's clear to me how it works, but I still have some doubts.

a lot easier and faster to implement. https://github.com/dooboolab/react-native-iap

Great, the more research into it the more I am leaning towards using https://github.com/dooboolab/react-native-iap. Good to hear that you've had no issues with that library.

Dunno if it's the "standard", but when I was implementing IAP, this was the only one I could find that actually 1/2 way worked. https://github.com/dooboolab/react-native-iap

You have to use in-app purchases directly from Apple (but given our size we are well within the new 15% bracket) . There is a great library for react-native to handle in-app purchases. Our current implementation is serverless, but we'll move to something more structured if the app gains enough momentum.

RevenueCat — Hosted backend for in-app purchases and subscriptions (iOS and Android). Free up to $2.5k/mo in tracked revenue.

You got it! Yea, I can't promise everything will work perfectly with all those other platforms, but I will promise that I believe we have the best handling out there. We have 10+ engineers fielding issues from 1000s of developers every month and incrementally improving.

We try to collect as little data as possible, but we use RevenueCat for handling the IAP. We currently use it with anonymous (randomly generated) IDs and don't save additional attribution metadata, so we try to be as privacy-friendly as is possible with this setup.

For IAPs, RevenueCat is one of the simplest setup that exists for React Native. And they have an expo plugin. But having this expo management workflow is the first thing you want to do. https://www.revenuecat.com/

Alternatively you could use RevenueCat which would handle receipt validation for you. I haven’t used it personally but everyone seems to sing its praises.

There are services out there like revenuecat (disclaimer: I have no connection with them, other than being a satisfied customer) that help make these things easier. I recommend looking into them if you’re struggling to wrap your head around it on your own, apple’s documentation can be pretty hard to decipher at times.

I'm Josh Holtz, the author of this article. You might now me from my lead maintainer role of fastlane, creator of Indie Dev Monday, and founder of the new Deep Dish Swift conference ☺️ But I also work at RevenueCat to help developers make more money by making in-app purchases and subscriptions easier!

I have integrated RevenueCat in my previous Startup Fitenium to manage subscriptions, and it was one of the best decisions. Instead of having to integrate both Apple and Google play SDK for subscriptions, with RevenueCat I simply integrated their SDK, which is well documented and much easier to work with. Everything else is magically managed by RevenueCat behind the scenes, to properly handle the payments, users, and analytics.

RevenueCat — Hosted backend for in-app purchases and subscriptions (iOS and Android). Free up to $10k/mo in tracked revenue.