Show HN: RevenueCat Paywalls

[jeiting]

Hey HN! It's been a while but I wanted to pop back in to share that we just shipped paywalls: a remotely configurable, App Store compliant, and testable paywall out of the box.

We shied away from building this for longer than we should have but it's such a huge component of making more money on the app stores we just had to.

It relies on native components, but is configurable from the web, which we think achieves a good balance of flexibility and performance. We're just on iOS for now, Android soon, then hopefully more platforms in time.

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I might be migrating to using Revenuecat and I am curious about one thing. I have in app subscriptions in iOS and Android. I plan to add Stripe into this mix as well at some point and I wonder if you handle the case when users jump from subscriptions in one platform to another.

I would like to move certain users (for instance by recommending that in a newsletter, or handing out coupons for the Stripe subscription) from their current iOS subscription to Stripe, and it is hard to make the overlap smooth. Does Revenuecat have some solution to this?

[jeiting]

Hi! We’d love to have you.

For this particular case it’s tricky on iOS since you can’t programmatically cancel a subscription on iOS. It must be initiated by the customer on the device.

However, if you navigate that UX challenge, you can use our events and webhooks to make a smooth experience guiding a user through the process. Hadn’t thought of this before, but you could probably pre-authorize a stripe token, then ask them to cancel on iOS, then wait for the webhook from us, then finish the transaction and track it to the same customer ID in RevenueCat.

[HHaan]

Love it: The bottom banner view is a killer feature

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Love this!