In-App purchases is a great way for developers to upsell by giving away their app for free and then allow them to charge for features when users start using it. This freemium model has indeed worked very well for upselling your app in the AppStore. But unfortunately, there isn’t an Apple allowed way to allow reviewers to “download” your in-app purchases for free (like giving away promotional codes for your in-app purchases). So most developers again resort to the same “lite”, “pro” model.
After raising the issue to Apple, I even got a official reply that it’s not possible currently to allow reviewers to use your in-app purchases for free.
However, developers’ creativity knows no bounds. In this post, I’ll present a method to allow reviewers to use your in-app purchases for free without having multiple versions of the same app on the app store. The source code for the same is also available royalty-free (as always) for using it in your own apps. Before diving in, it’s advised that you read through my previous tutorial on how to do in-app purchases