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How to implement supplies in a Windows Store app?

Can I sell consumer goods through in-app purchases?

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The answer is no, but it is also.

Consumables, in particular, are not supported. This is any in-app purchase you can make again and again and again and again. They are not supported.

However, the lifespan of durable goods (which you can purchase once) may expire in one day. Many developers created several durable goods, allowed them to purchase a centrally stored purchase record somewhere in one day, and let them expire, so the user can buy them tomorrow tomorrow.

So no, you cannot install supplies.

And yes, you can set an expiration date and use daily supplies.

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This is similar to a fix in Windows 8.1. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/bg182887.aspx#two

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Just add your 2 cents to the answers:

  • IAP limit on Windows 8, which is 200 (but was removed on Windows 8.1 ). It may seem great, but an application can easily have 10 or 20 different IAPs that divide this number up to 10 purchases in 24 hours, which seems to be the limit that some users are likely to put in the near future. To add two more complex solutions:

    • You can use analytics to get the maximum number of each user in the application purchased in the 24-hour window, and adjust the amount of each IAP product for each element of the application, that is, assign more IAP products to most items used in the application and fewer items that were not purchased so many times in 24 hours.
    • You could use IAP products for price levels, i.e. identify 50 products for 1.49 dollars apiece in the app, 25 for $ 1.99, etc.

  • For completeness, I would like to bring the @Chris Bowen link to a workaround:

If XBL games are turned on, they will have to use the built-in Consumables.

XBox Live, in my experience, is a very closed program.

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Consumables (for example, to buy a package of gold coins for your character in the game and allow the user to buy this package several times) are not directly supported for Windows Store applications (although the Windows Phone SDK has ProductLicense.IsConsumable ), but there is a workaround method that can prove useful, depending on the specific scenario.

However, shopping support for multiple applications in applications is relatively easy to implement, as shown in this article and sample:

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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/1439222/

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