How to Set Up Monthly Subscriptions for Apple App Store & Google Play in Bubble.io Mobile Beta

Hi everyone,

I’m building a native mobile app using Bubble.io’s mobile beta, and I’d like to set up monthly subscriptions so users are charged through the Apple App Store and Google Play Store to access my app.

I’m looking for guidance on:

How to integrate in-app purchases for both platforms.
Managing subscription renewals, cancellations, and access to premium features.
Any plugins or third-party tools that make this easier.

If anyone has experience with this or knows of useful resources, I’d really appreciate your insights!

Hi!

I don’t think this is feasible at the moment because in-app purchases are not available on Bubble.

The only way you have for now is to make both stores pay a one-time payment. That is, the app is paid only when it is downloaded without the possibility of having a subscription.

In addition, Apple and Google Play have commissions on purchases, up to 30%.

I hope you help :slight_smile:

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Oh… @nick.carroll is it something on the roadmap ? I heard that Apple store don’t validate apps with Stripe payments do how to bulid a business on top of mobile?

[Edit] just read it was on the roadmap Mobile Roadmap: Recent & Upcoming Releases

Yes, they plan to develop this functionality :slight_smile:

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So are they actually building the feature to enable in app monthly subscriptions for apple app store and google play store?

So are they actually building the feature to enable in app monthly subscriptions for apple app store and google play store??

I don’t know if they’re doing this right now, but it’s definitely a planned function in the future.

They are actually working on it from what I read in this post Mobile Roadmap: Recent & Upcoming Releases

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This is one of the highest priority requirements. I hope bubble prioritises this really amongst everything else.

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TRUE!!!
This Feature Is Very Much Needed

Hello community,
I’ve been developing an app for over 18 months every day, it’s ready but I’m missing in-app payment and plugin integration because I use video calls. I really need these 2 features urgently to start maybe becoming profitable because currently I’m losing money every day.
As for in-app payment, you can set it up but not on the mobile version, just the web version. I did it with the webtonative plug-in (99€), and it pretty much works, but it’s impossible to link the payment to the user in your database, so you can authorize or disallow certain features depending on whether or not they’ve paid monthly, so it doesn’t work.
For the time being, the best thing to look forward to is the in-app payments feature promised by our beloved @nick.carroll :pensive_face:.

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+1 @nick.carroll when will it be rolled out?

No exact timeline yet, but in app purchases is a top priority project once we launch the public beta. In the mean time, since Apple has relaxed their IAP rules following a court order, you are now able to link out to external payments. So for example, you can now have your subscription logic live on a web page using stripe and have the user subscribe there.

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Thank you for the response as this is a very important issue.
Unfortunately in the EU they have not relaxed any IAP rules, I have had a project rejected 3 times.

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Hi everybody, Impossible, they refused my app again a few days ago !

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Okay same @nick.carroll I m in EU too so not able to get sub for now. Hope you will shoot it quickly!

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This is the top priority feature post launch

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Please, we deeply need in app purchases to charge monthly subscriptions!

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