Displaying In App Purchase Price

[Joseph Nardone]

This is my first experience with in-app purchase.

All I am selling is switch added to my "settings" view that allows advertising to be turned off.

I have a button that says - "click here to purchase" under the description of what will happen after the user purchases.

I do not have a price listed for the in app purchase in the app as I want to be able to change it later. The price from iTunes Connect shows up in the alertview when the button is pushed.

Is this an acceptable way to do it or do I need to get the current price for my item from iTunes connect and display it in the app?

[Tambourin]

Retrieving the price from Apple is quite easy as it is already included in the SKProduct object.

To get the price in local currency I use this code:

NSNumberFormatter *numberFormatter = [[NSNumberFormatter alloc] init];
[numberFormatter setFormatterBehavior:NSNumberFormatterBehavior10_4];
[numberFormatter setNumberStyle:NSNumberFormatterCurrencyStyle];
[numberFormatter setLocale:product.priceLocale];
NSString *stringPrice = [numberFormatter stringFromNumber:product.price];
[numberFormatter release];

[Joseph Nardone]

Thanks, that worked great after I added the code to retrieve the product objects.

I actually have two products so I had to send an array to get back both prices.

I had been using only the purchase method, which required the user to start the purchase before they saw the price.

[awestonlin]

Hey Guys,

Are you guys solely monetizing off in-app purchases and using the itunes store as your transaction platform?

[MozyMac]

Originally Posted by Tambourin

Retrieving the price from Apple is quite easy as it is already included in the SKProduct object.

To get the price in local currency I use this code:

NSNumberFormatter *numberFormatter = [[NSNumberFormatter alloc] init];
[numberFormatter setFormatterBehavior:NSNumberFormatterBehavior10_4];
[numberFormatter setNumberStyle:NSNumberFormatterCurrencyStyle];
[numberFormatter setLocale:product.priceLocale];
NSString *stringPrice = [numberFormatter stringFromNumber:product.price];
[numberFormatter release];

Thanks for sharing the code