{"id":124064,"date":"2021-11-05T20:08:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T20:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/?id=yeyd5xuh"},"modified":"2021-11-05T20:08:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T20:08:55","slug":"online-group-event-in-app-purchase-requirement-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2021\/11\/05\/online-group-event-in-app-purchase-requirement-reminder\/","title":{"rendered":"Online group event in-app purchase requirement reminder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/online-group-event-in-app-purchase-requirement-reminder.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Last year, to support apps that adapted services from in-person to digital, we temporarily deferred the requirement to offer paid online group event services (one-to-few and one-to-many realtime services) through in-app&nbsp;purchase in accordance with <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/app-store\/review\/guidelines\/#3.1.1\">App&nbsp;Store Review&nbsp;Guideline&nbsp;3.1.1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In November&nbsp;2020 we extended the deadline to June&nbsp;2021, and in April&nbsp;2021 we extended it again to December&nbsp;31,&nbsp;2021. These extensions were granted to support businesses and provide time for you to update your apps to comply with long standing in-app payment rules.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, new apps and updates offering these realtime one-to-few and one-to-many services must use in-app purchase by December&nbsp;31,&nbsp;2021, or they won\u2019t be approved per guideline&nbsp;3.1.1. Apps offering realtime person-to-person services between two individuals (for example, tutoring students, medical consultations, real estate tours, or fitness training) can continue using purchase methods other than in-app&nbsp;purchase.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/in-app-purchase\/\">Learn about <span class=\"icon icon-after icon-chevronright nowrap\">implementing in-app&nbsp;purchase<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, to support apps that adapted services from in-person to digital, we temporarily deferred the requirement to offer paid online group event services (one-to-few and one-to-many realtime services) through in-app&nbsp;purchase in accordance with App&nbsp;Store Review&nbsp;Guideline&nbsp;3.1.1. In November&nbsp;2020 we extended the deadline to June&nbsp;2021, and in April&nbsp;2021 we extended it again to December&nbsp;31,&nbsp;2021. These extensions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-developer-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}