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I am developing an iphone application.
In My Application I have a feature to send physical gifts, so we decided to use in app purchase. I have read the Apple documentation for In App purchases, but it does not allow physical goods.
Please let me know if there is an alternative.
Indeed, you are right. Apple does not allow using its IAP for payment of physical goods. Quoting from Apple’s Guidelines – 11.3 Apps using IAP to purchase physical goods or goods and services used outside of the application will be rejected.
There are several options you can use to enable in-app payment of physical goods using credit cards – PayPal, Amazon Payments, Card.IO and ZooZ. Each has its own pros/cons.
Another possibility is to build your own credit card processing but this is a challenge of its own with all of the security, merchant account, PCI compliance and other issues.
Oh, and it should be noted that I am the CEO of ZooZ.com 🙂