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Gate saving or sharing content based on subscriber status

Users with no content access see a lock icon in place of share or save. This would allow you to prevent users with access to content, but without logins, from saving or sharing content. Particular use cases might be if you have a metered paywall, ...
Benji Weiser 9 months ago in Authentication and purchases 0 Future consideration

Support for multiple different subscriptions, for different products, at the same time

This would allow you and your users to have multiple different subscriptions available within your app. This is similar to The New York Times, where users can subscribe to games separately from news, or NowTV where users can subscribe separately t...
Benji Weiser 9 months ago in Authentication and purchases 0 Future consideration

Limited time discounts for iOS subscribers

iOS Promotional Offers (separate from Introductory Offers) allows you to send limited time discounts to certain users. As stated in the linked Apple documentation, it can be particularly helpful in retaining users whose subscriptions are about to ...
Benji Weiser 9 months ago in Authentication and purchases 0 Future consideration

Allow subscriptions in your Android app without going through the Google Play Store

Android User Choice Billing is similar to Apple's External Link Entitlement which we currently support. The idea is to provide you with a different method of getting subscriptions from your app, not using the app store billing systems. Android Use...
Benji Weiser 9 months ago in Authentication and purchases 0 Future consideration

Metered paywall expansion - Access for a specific period of time

Our current metered paywall implementation allows you to reset every X weeks or months. This cycle will start from the date you first interact with content regardless of where in the week or month that is. This expansion would allow you to give ac...
Benji Weiser 10 months ago in Authentication and purchases 0 Future consideration

Ability to have timelines and storefronts in the same tab

Currently timelines and editions are separated in separate tabs, timeline tabs or storefront tabs. This would allow you to combine them.
Benji Weiser 10 months ago in Content behaviour 0 Future consideration

Metered paywall expansion - Linking with your authentication

Our current metered paywall implementation allows you to reset every X weeks or months. This cycle will start from the date you first interact with content regardless of where in the week or month that is. This expansion would allow you to tie you...
Benji Weiser 10 months ago in Authentication and purchases / Authentication integrations 0 Future consideration

Metered paywall expansion - Resetting on a specific day of the week/month

Our current metered paywall implementation allows you to reset every X weeks or months. This cycle will start from the date you first interact with content regardless of where in the week or month that is. This expansion would allow you to reset e...
Benji Weiser 10 months ago in Authentication and purchases 0 Future consideration

Live activities that update on your lock screen in real-time

You may have seen live activities in apps such as Uber, Bolt and Deliveroo. They appear on your lock screen and update you as something is happening in real time. This could be applicable to; sports results, election results and more.
Benji Weiser 10 months ago in Content behaviour / Content interaction 0 Future consideration

Gift content to friends and family for free

This is the ability for subscribers to 'gift' content to other users. Contrary to standard sharing, if receiving a gifted article, the recipient would not be blocked by a paywall. The link would only be valid once, and would take away from the sen...
Benji Weiser 10 months ago in Authentication and purchases / Content interaction 0 Future consideration