Question

I am about to create my first iOS app with in-app purchase. I read documentation and everything, but I can’t find anywhere how to append some metadata to in-app purchase object. I would like to add some additional information to each item, like category, sub-title e.t.c.

iBooks uses this for category, author and other stuff, so it should be possible. I presume they are using in-app purchase in iBooks, is that correct?

Only solution I came up with so far is to have all metadata on my server and retrieve them when items from store load. Is there any other way?

I need to add new items (and possibly new metadata) after app is online, so I can’t put them inside app

Answer 1

Nope. That’s what you’re supposed to do. Metadata and the like is entirely up to you, and Apple provides no inbuilt mechanism in StoreKit or iTunes Connect for supplying it.