Apple ID/Google ID/Miscrosoft ID email and Entitlement (what is the user email?)

Mix? Can you post an example? Please it's very important this detail!

The NON-connection create a big problem!

If a user buy with in-app purchase on Apple this purchase is that store-only! So not also on Google or Microsoft.

Correct?

Thanks Neil, you are great!

1) Sure. You offer a print subscription and want to provide access to the digital version of your magazine to your print subscribers so they don’t have to purchase the digital version as well. The print subscribers use direct entitlement to sign in and gain access to the content. People without a print subscription purchase access via the store purchase system.

2) You are correct. We do not support cross-marketplace entitlement via store purchases and never have.

Neil

In-App purchasing is specific to a platform marketplace. Collections or Subscriptions purchased via iTunes will be available on a user's iOS devices. Similarly, collections purchased via Google Play will be available on a user's Android devices. There is no support to share a purchase across marketplaces.

If a user is entitled to content through Direct Entitlement (e.g. they purchased the collection or subscription through your website, they have a membership account that entitles them to content) then that user can sign in to the app through Direct Entitlement on different device platforms (e.g. iOS, Android) and get access to the content they are entitled, too. This also assumes that you have made content available on those platforms.

As Neil mentioned, entitlement does not equal purchasing. Entitlement is a superset. A user could be entitled to digital content because they purchased a print subscription, because they are a member of an organization with an active account or because they are an employee of the company that owns the app. In all of these examples, the user will sign in (via Direct Entitlement) and, once authenticated, be granted access to the content they are entitled to.

You asked about the "mixed" scenario of using Direct Entitlement and In-App Purchasing. Neil provided an example of a customer being able to provide both a print-digital bundle (direct entitlement) and digital-only subscriptions (in-app purchasing). Here's another example:

• Customer creates an app for members of a club. All content is published as non-free (non-free products do not have to have a price and do not have to be purchasable in a marketplace. It just means they require some form of entitlement.)
• Users sign in using Direct Entitlement and once authenticated as active members of the club, users gain access to all non-free content included as part of their membership.
• The club creates a collection of content (maybe coverage of a special event) that is not included with membership. This collection is published as non-free and made available for purchase in the app store.
• Users purchase the event collection via the app store (e.g. iTunes). This purchase is made through the user's iTunes account and is entitled via iTunes receipts (instead of through the Direct Entitlement service)

Kristy

Hi Kristy, i do not have received the notification for your important reply! Sorry, only now i see it!

Thanks for your arguments but a question (see also here: Webstore Entitlement Integration (Desktop)) is open: if you do not have a desktop webstore what is the real benefit of entitlement for a publisher? I understand the benefit for a club or a company but for a publisher (small OR big) i do not understand how entitlement could work without a real webstore (this the core) that do the distribution.