Is there any way for me to determine who's already purchased the paid version, and 'gift' them the book IAPs in the new free version? If we thought this threw sooner we could've logged the unique IDs of all of those paid versions, but I do believe that's against the rules now anyway, correct?

This won't be much of an issue in the App Store if we immediately remove the paid version from the store, but can make for a confusing user experience if a user downloads the new version alongside the old paid version.Īlong the same lines, if we delete the old paid version as soon as we upload the new free version (with the same name as the old paid version), it's easy to imagine some confused users of the old paid version deleting their existing paid version and downloading the new free version, only to realize they'd lost the books they'd already paid for, with no way of re-downloading the old paid version.įrom a real high level, are we handling this the wrong way? I've Googled and Googled, but I haven't been able to find much guidance on how to combine paid and free version of apps into one.

There will be a name conflict, since we want the new app to take the name of the old paid one (removing the typical '- Lite' signifier). Those who've already paid for the existing full version might feel ripped off, since their version won't be receiving any of the other updates in this new version.

Delete the existing paid version from the app store.

Rename the free version, removing the 'Lite'.

Update free app to the new version with the IAP books.

I'm at the point where I'd like to submit the app, and I'm not sure of the best way to proceed. We've just developed a new version of the app that instead implements the two books as IAPs, with the intention of merging the two apps into one. My company currently has two applications in the app store: a full, paid version that includes two ebooks, and a 'lite' version that does not include both books.

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